Backend Engineer

About the Role
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to develop, maintain, and improve backend systems that support our digital financial services platform. This role will be responsible for building scalable services, developing new features, improving system performance, and ensuring high standards of code quality, reliability, and security in a fast paced fintech environment.

Key Responsibilities

1. Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs to support business and product requirements.

2. Build scalable, reliable, and secure backend solutions that enable positive user experience and measurable business growth.

3. Develop new features, system enhancements, and infrastructure improvements to support rapidly changing business needs.

4. Work across backend systems, databases, and integrations to ensure smooth application performance, uptime, and scalability.

5. Write clean, reusable, and maintainable code following engineering best practices.

6. Apply good software design principles, including object oriented design, SOLID principles, and proper system architecture.

7. Collaborate with Product Managers, Frontend Engineers, Mobile Engineers, QA, Data, Risk, Operations, and other cross functional teams to deliver high quality solutions.

8. Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production issues to ensure system stability and reliability.

9. Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving development standards within the engineering team.

10. Ensure backend development follows relevant security, privacy, and compliance standards, especially within the fintech and P2P lending environment.

11. Support system integration with internal platforms, third party services, and regional or HQ technology teams when required.
    

Requirements

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or other related technical fields.

2. 1 to 5 years of professional experience in backend software development.

3. Strong knowledge of Java, J2EE, and related Java technologies.

4. Good understanding of backend architecture, API development, distributed systems, and scalable application design.

5. Experience with database systems. Familiarity with MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB is preferred.

6. Familiar with RESTful APIs, Git, and standard software development workflow.

7. Good understanding of clean code, reusable code, object oriented programming, and software engineering best practices.

8. Strong logical thinking, problem solving skills, and attention to detail.

9. Able to work in a fast paced environment and handle evolving business or project requirements.

10. Good communication skills and ability to collaborate confidently with internal stakeholders.

11. Fluent communication skills in English.
    

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience in P2P lending, fintech, banking, payment, or other financial technology products.

2. Experience working with high traffic or large scale backend systems.

3. Familiarity with microservices architecture and distributed systems.

4. Familiarity with secure coding practices and data privacy principles.

5. Experience working with cloud services, message queues, or containerization is a plus.

6. Ability to communicate in Mandarin is a plus.

7. Experience working with regional or global engineering teams is a plus.
   

Required Skills

1. Java

2. J2EE

3. RESTful API development

4. Backend architecture

5. MySQL

6. Redis

7. MongoDB

8. Git

9. Object oriented programming

10. Debugging and performance optimization

11. Secure coding practice

12. English communication
    

What We Offer

1. Opportunity to work in a fast growing fintech company with real business impact.

2. Exposure to scalable backend systems that support large scale digital financial services.

3. Opportunity to work closely with Product, Risk, Data, Compliance, Operations, and Engineering teams.

4. Dynamic work environment with continuous learning and career growth opportunities.