Senior Java Developer
1 day ago
Leeds
About Us Peratera is a UK-based fintech company, founded in 2022 and authorised by the FCA as an Electronic Money Institution. We are building a modern, all-in-one payment platform that enables businesses to manage global payments and financial operations seamlessly. Our solution allows companies to open multi-currency accounts, send and receive payments worldwide, and manage cross-border transactions from a single platform. Our mission is to simplify global finance and remove friction from international business operations. Your Mission As a Senior Java Engineer, you will be a core contributor to our distributed financial platform - going beyond coding to actively shape architecture, drive engineering excellence, and help build systems that are scalable, observable, and regulation-ready. You will join at a stage where the platform is evolving fast and the right engineers will grow with it - toward Tech Lead or Staff Engineer roles. Your Tech Environment You will work in a modern, cloud-native stack with clear ownership and no legacy surprises: • Backend: Java 17+, Spring Boot (Core, Security, Data, Cloud), REST APIs, event-driven services, Camunda, • Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, RDS, CloudWatch), Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, • Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL, AMQP / Kafka-style message brokers, event-driven architecture, • Observability: OpenSearch / ELK, Prometheus / Micrometer, OpenTelemetry (in progress), • Integrations: Open Banking providers, banking partners, external payment systems What You’ll Do • Design and develop high-load, distributed backend services for financial operations, • Work on core payment flows, callbacks, reconciliation, and transaction lifecycle management, • Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to system design decisions, • Implement observability across services - logging, metrics, and distributed tracing, • Improve system reliability, fault tolerance, and overall platform resilience, • Drive code quality, testing strategy, and engineering best practices across the team, • Collaborate closely with Product, DevOps, and Architecture teams, • Contribute to the platform's evolution toward AI-assisted and data-driven capabilities What We’re Looking For • 6+ years of strong, production Java experience, • Deep expertise in the Spring Boot ecosystem, • Solid understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture, • Experience building high-load or financial systems - payments, banking, or fintech, • Strong REST API design skills and hands-on experience with messaging systems, • Solid SQL skills; PostgreSQL experience preferred, • Familiarity with cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling, • Clean Code mindset - SOLID principles, maintainability, and genuine ownership, • Comfortable working asynchronously in a distributed, international team Nice to Have • Exposure to Open Banking or regulated payments environments, • Experience with Camunda or other workflow orchestration engines, • Understanding of PCI DSS compliance requirements, • Experience with event-driven or event-sourcing architectures, • Interest or hands-on experience with AI/ML applied to backend systems What You’ll Get • Competitive, market-aligned compensation - discussed openly at first interview, • Direct impact on architecture and strategic platform decisions from day one, • A real fintech platform running at production scale - not a demo environment, • Exposure to modern cloud-native, AI-assisted, and Open Banking systems, • Fully remote setup with flexible hours and an international, highly skilled team Sounds like a match? Send us your CV - we’re excited to get to know you.