Senior Java Backend Engineer - Fintech

About the role

Strabl is a fintech platform that gives e-commerce businesses a one-click, customizable express checkout solution, integrating with payment gateways, card networks, digital wallets and buy-now-pay-later providers. It is building a scalable, secure payment infrastructure using Java, Spring Boot, microservices and AWS. The company is looking for a Senior Java Backend Engineer with strong fintech experience to design, develop and scale its payment infrastructure and distributed backend services.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build scalable REST APIs and microservices with Spring Cloud and OpenFeign.
• Develop payment gateway integrations, tokenization, recurring payments, 3-D Secure and webhook processing.
• Work with databases and messaging systems including MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, event-driven and multi-tenant architectures.
• Build and deploy cloud-native applications with Docker and AWS.
• Implement monitoring, logging, distributed tracing and automated testing.
• Maintain high standards of security, performance, reliability and code quality.

Required profile

• 6+ years of professional Java development experience with strong hands-on expertise in Java and Spring Boot.
• Proven fintech experience building and delivering financial products, payment platforms or payment infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of payment processing, gateway integrations, transaction lifecycles and financial systems.
• Experience with EMV 3-D Secure, EMVCo specifications, card tokenization or similar payment technologies.
• Excellent written and spoken English, strong analytical skills and the ability to work independently.
• Fully remote role with working hours aligned to UAE time (GST, UTC+4); apply only if you match the experience and are comfortable with those hours.

Required skills

• Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, OpenFeign, REST APIs, microservices, OOP, SOLID principles and design patterns.
• MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, AWS.
• Familiarity with automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring and production troubleshooting.