Backend Developer

Introduction

Currenxie is a financial technology company for borderless businesses. Founded in 2014, our Global Account platform offers businesses of all sizes a single finance app for global growth. Features include multi-currency digital wallets, on-demand virtual bank accounts, worldwide payments, currency exchange, and instant Visa cards. We value innovative technology, user experience, and service.

We are an ambitious and rapidly growing company led by an entrepreneurial and collaborative team. We offer our people an opportunity to be part of building a new financial services platform for a borderless world, and to learn and progress in a friendly, dynamic and multi-cultural environment.

Job Description

We are looking for a Backend Developer to join our agile dev team, and interested in building state-of-the-art, performant, scalable and maintainable backend services and APIs. You will be involved in working on multiple products with a modern tech stack, and on projects involving multiple team members in a dynamic environment.

We’d like that you aren’t afraid of voicing an opinion on how to do things better, in both our code base, and in our daily workflows and processes. You must be a driven team player that never compromises on quality. You are comfortable working in a dynamic, multinational environment where excellence is encouraged and rewarded.

Responsibilities

• Develop secure backend services and APIs to support new features and further enhancements.
• Understanding product requirements and translating them to robust technical solutions.
• Contribute to overall solution architecture.
• Work and collaborate with the rest of the engineering team, including frontend developers and product owners.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Keep improving our code base as we go along, and refactor things for the better.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance issues.

Skills

• 5+ years of Java experience, candidates with less working experience will be considered as Backend Developer
• Experience building and maintaining APIs using Spring Boot, JPA, connecting to various SQL and NoSQL databases (ideally PostgreSQL and Redis).
• Experience building server-side generated web applications using templating engines (such as Thymeleaf)
• Ability to write well-documented, clean code.
• Degree in computer science or similar technical discipline.
• Hands-on experience in team programming projects, preferably using Git or other source control systems.
• Excellent English communication skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills and able to pick up new technologies.

Bonus

• Understanding of CI/CD for building and deploying applications to the cloud.
• Experience with containerized applications.
• Exposure to banking/card/e-wallet and general fintech products.
• Experience with AWS (cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, container orchestration).
• Familiarity with application security and DevSecOps.

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

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