Salla
Senior Backend Engineer - PayLink
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- Salary
- Not stated
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- Not stated
- Visa
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Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
The team: Technology HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 10 open in Technology. 5 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in June: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
CI/CD (6 of 10), AWS (5 of 10), Python (5 of 10), Azure (4 of 10), Kafka (4 of 10), Kubernetes (4 of 10), SQL (4 of 10)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior ML Backend Engineer - Search & Recommendations posted Oct 14
- Cloud Native Data Ops posted Oct 12
- Senior QA Engineer (Manual & Automation) posted Oct 8
- Lead Backend Engineer - PayLink posted Sep 28
- Senior Backend Engineer - Checkout posted Aug 18
- Database Administrator - Tamheer Program posted Aug 11
- Senior Data Scientist - Salla Platforms Metrics & Analytics posted Jul 23
- Senior AI Backend Engineer - Agent Evaluation & Quality posted Jul 19
- Head of Security posted Jun 29
From the team and dates on Salla's own job board.
About the role
You design and build payment-critical backend services end to end on a modern Java stack, with a high bar for correctness, reliability and security.
What you'll do
- Design and build payment-critical backend services and APIs on Java / Spring Boot.
- Ensure correctness and reliability under load.
- Build robust integrations and event-driven flows.
- Write thorough tests and help maintain high engineering standards.
- Mentor mid-level engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ years in Java backend with Spring Boot.
- Hands-on payments / fintech experience is required — you have worked on real payment or financial-transaction systems.
- Hands-on experience with at least one payment processor or gateway (e.g. MPGS, Cybersource or mada). This is a requirement for this role.
- Strong microservices and REST API design; relational databases.
- Solid grasp of transactional integrity and reliability.
- Containers / CI/CD and strong automated testing.
- AI-augmented engineering — you actively use AI coding tools such as Claude Code in your day-to-day development. This is a requirement for this role.
Nice to have
- Experience with more than one payment processor / gateway.
- Cloud platforms (OCI, AWS or Azure); Kafka.
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