Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java Architect

What you'll do

• Translate payment requirements into technical solutions and build Java/Spring Boot services, APIs, and event-driven workflows.
• Create architecture and design artifacts, automated tests, and CI/CD improvements; support production monitoring and root-cause analysis.
• Use authorized AI coding tools to assist with development, testing, and documentation, validating outputs and promoting responsible team practices.

What they ask for

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Hands-on Java, Spring Boot, and microservices experience, including RESTful API design and security.
• Experience with event-driven messaging, relational and NoSQL databases, automated testing, CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on use of authorized AI-assisted development tools, ability to validate their outputs, and understanding of responsible AI use in engineering.

Nice to have

• Exposure to payments or financial services, event sourcing, state-machine workflows, or high-throughput transaction processing.
• Experience with gRPC and Protobuf, Python, observability tooling, or modern front-end technologies.

Pay

USD $175,750.00-$260,000.00 base salary

Tools

Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, IBM MQ, Oracle, JUnit, Mockito, Kubernetes

AI focus

Uses enterprise-authorized AI coding tools for code generation and refactoring, test creation, troubleshooting, and documentation; validates outputs for correctness, performance, and security, and promotes responsible use.