Staff Software Engineer - Backend

The Company - 

At Redpin, our mission is to bring global citizens and businesses together by simplifying life’s most important payments. Our world-class payments network and human-centric customer service touches a vast global community across 15,000+ partners, 235 territories and two flagship brands, Currencies Direct and TorFX. We are reshaping the age-old property market by connecting the dots across the entire ecosystem, from buyers and sellers to legal service firms and title companies to property management, banks and real estate agents. 
Our goal is to become the leader in payments and embedded software for international property. We are a diverse team of over 800 employees across 10 offices worldwide, working together to connect the dots for hundreds of thousands of customers around the world. Our B2B, B2C and B2B2C solutions are designed to streamline property transactions and enhance user experience across the globe.

The Role -

As a staff engineer for backend services at Redpin, you will be working on the designing, creating and running the product catalogue for one of our greenfield new products, PropertyPay. We have a long roadmap ahead of us and rarely run out of interesting problems to tackle. To name some of the products we are running – we have our own core account/payments infrastructure adapted to a variety of customer segments such as Legal, Real Estate and Notaries.
We work in full-stack teams, grouped under common domains. As staff engineer you will work on early engineering phases to lay the groundwork for the teams in your area. 
Our tech stack - 
React.js (frontend services)
Java (backend services)
AWS (cloud provider) 
Spring Boot (framework) 

What You'll Do - 

•    Defining and owning the target architecture for your domain, making sure that all the projects and services in the area follow it
•    Design and Development: Create robust, efficient, and scalable backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
•    Collaborate to multiply your impact: Coordinate with the Engineering Manager and the other Engineers to deliver on your designs.
•    API Development: Design, build, and maintain APIs for web and mobile applications.
•    Performance and Security: Ensure application performance, scalability, and security best practices.
•    Cloud Integration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate cloud services into our backend infrastructure.
•    Code Quality: Write high-quality, maintainable code that adheres to industry standards.
•    Mentorship: Support junior and mid-level team members, conduct code reviews, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

What You’ll Need - 

•    Extensive experience (10+ years) building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of the relevant programming                     languages for your stack (e.g. Java 8 or newer). You don’t need to know Java, but to be on top of the teams, you need to be               willing to learn it (we already have a lot of systems written in Java)
•    In depth understanding of a backend framework (e.g. Spring/ Spring Boot) 
•    Experience showing strong problem-solving skills and a passion for creating user-centric solutions.
•    Robust organisational skills; the ability to look at the big picture and figure out to eat away at it as a collective team.
•    Core backend proficiency. A strong command of backend technologies, including object-oriented programming, design patterns,          exception handling, and memory management.
•    Modern backend framework (e.g. Spring Boot)- In-depth knowledge of a modern backend framework for building efficient and             scalable backend applications.
•    Understanding of Spring components like controllers, services, repositories, and security.
•    RESTful API Development: Proficiency in designing and implementing RESTful APIs.
Bonus Points - 
•    Mastery over Java’s core APIs, such as collections, streams, and concurrency frameworks.
•    Experience withing a B2B fintech environment would be highly desirable