Technical Architect

This is a senior, high-impact role designed for a pragmatic, battle-tested Technical Architect - Developer Hybrid You will work amongst the sharpest minds in the financial fraternity to build a next-generation platform vision. At us, we embrace simplicity and evolutionary design over convoluted, heavy top-down architecture solutions. We maintain a strong preference for Open Source (FOSS) and building over buying wherever viable. This role requires a hands-on Technical Architect who stays in the trenches. The individual will combine the absolute best traits of a technical visionary and an execution-focused leader, bringing the capability to structure robust backend engines while aggressively deep-diving into complex production environments to debug and resolve issues at the highest speed.

Responsibilities:

• Platform Architecture and Design: Drive, own, and execute multiple next-generation platform initiatives. Ensure backend architectures are structurally designed for massive scale, extreme availability, and high performance using Java microservices and strict AI and API-first design principles.
• Full-Stack Ecosystem Synchronization: Act as the technical design authority, ensuring seamless data flow, state management, and consistency across Java backend services, React Web platforms, and Mobile/POS applications (Android and C++ kernels).
• AI Development and Engineering: Personally lead the hands-on prototyping, design, and integration of AI/ML utilities into core production pipelines (e. g., smart reconciliation engines, fraud pattern recognition, and transaction optimization).
• Production SWAT and Observability: Act as the go-to responder for high-priority production incidents. Personally drive down MTTR by debugging critical technical issues within a complex stack involving Spring Boot microservices, Docker containers, and AWS environments.
• Best Practices and Quality: Reinforce XP practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD), refactoring, and clean code. Devise processes and mechanisms to ensure expected uptime and platform resilience.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management and clients to scope out releases, translate business goals into technical execution charts, and deliver high-quality outputs on predictable schedules without trading off quality for velocity.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of technical experience in Product-Led, Tech-First companies, with a significant background operating in fast-growing Fintech or transaction-heavy payment processing sectors.
• Core Language and Frameworks: Deep hands-on mastery of Java and the Spring Boot ecosystem. Strong preference for polyglot profiles who can adapt to multi-language requirements.
• Cloud and Orchestration: Strong architecture and implementation experience with AWS services, Docker containerization, and Kubernetes for container orchestration (NLB/ALB, Ingress Controllers).
• Data and Messaging Systems: Expertise in distributed system design using SQL and NoSQL databases (with advanced performance tuning) and messaging fabrics like RabbitMQ and NATS.
• AI / ML Pipeline: Practical proficiency in integrating AI utilities, LLMs, or foundational frameworks into high-throughput backend infrastructure.
• Observability and Infrastructure: Live and breathe automation (CI/CD pipelines). Practical experience deploying observability frameworks such as Prometheus and Grafana for logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing.
• Client-Aware Capabilities Strong baseline understanding of JavaScript frameworks (React) and Mobile development (Android/iOS) to govern full-stack technical interfaces. Knowledge of C++ to read or trace low-level POS code is a distinct advantage.