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The platform is being built from scratch and will operate in a highly regulated, high-volume environment, supporting millions of concurrent users.\n\nIt will process real-time financial transactions and must provide high availability, sub-second response times, strong data integrity, security, and complete auditability. A major technical challenge is ensuring stable performance and reliability during peak events and significant traffic spikes.\n\nThe team is looking for strong engineering expertise to help architect and develop a scalable, high-performance, and resilient backend platform while meeting strict security, regulatory, and compliance standards.\n\nAbout the Role:\n\nAs a Senior Java Engineer, you will build and design the core backend services of the PAM platform from the ground up. 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