Hybrid Technical Lead – Backend

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About the role

  • Technical Lead for backend development in digital banking at GFT Technologies. Leading design and development of backend services for financial platforms with a global team.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers across multiple functional domains.
  • Provide technical direction and ensure alignment with architecture standards and engineering best practices.
  • Review solution designs, code quality, and implementation approaches — promoting clean architecture, resilient microservices, and AI‑enhanced development patterns.
  • Guide the team in diagnosing complex technical challenges, using both traditional analysis and AI-powered debugging or observability tools.
  • Support planning, estimation, and technical decision-making within the engineering team.
  • Design and develop backend services using Java and modern backend frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot).
  • Define and implement microservices-based architecture and API-driven systems.
  • Ensure backend services are scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable.
  • Drive best practices in backend development, including maintainable system design, automated testing, code quality, API governance, performance optimization and documentation.
  • Work closely with DevOps teams to support CI/CD pipelines, incorporate intelligent automation, and ensure stable, secure deployment environments.
  • Integrate AI-assisted development practices into coding, testing, documentation, code reviews, and defect prevention workflows.
  • Design backend systems supporting banking products and financial transaction processing.
  • Build and maintain services related to payments, card processing, financial operations, and core banking functions.
  • Ensure backend implementations comply with financial industry standards and security requirements.
  • Collaborate with business and product teams to translate banking and financial requirements into technical solutions.
  • Work directly with client stakeholders, architects, and product owners to understand business processes, requirements and define technical solutions.
  • Challenge and clarify requirements with curiosity dig deep into the "why" behind business needs.
  • Participate in architecture discussions and technical workshops with client teams.
  • Communicate technical designs, trade-offs, and solutions clearly to both engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Support project delivery by ensuring technical risks are identified and mitigated early.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • 8+ years of backend development experience.
  • 3+ years in a Technical Lead or senior engineering role.
  • Strong experience with Java and backend frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot).
  • Experience designing and implementing microservices, API-driven systems, event-driven architectures or messaging systems (e.g., Kafka), RDBMS and SQL.
  • Solid experience working with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD, version control (Git), and automated pipelines.
  • Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience working in banking, fintech, or financial services environments.
  • Familiarity with core banking, card, payment systems, or related financial systems.
  • Knowledge of industry standards (e.g. PCI-DSS) or payment security practices.
  • Handson exposure to AIassisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar).
  • Ability to write effective prompts and context for AI code generation.
  • Ability to assess AI-generated code, verify security vulnerabilities, validate AI-generated tests for completeness and edge case coverage.

Job title

Technical Lead – Backend

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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