Principal / Lead Backend Engineer, Core Banking

Hiring: Principal / Lead Backend Engineer, Core Banking (fintech, Dubai)

An international fintech is building its own neobank and moving from an outsourced core banking platform to an in-house core. We’re looking for an engineer who will shape the architecture together with the CTO and write a good part of the code themselves.

What you’ll build: ledger, accounts and balances, customer and KYC layer, transfers and payments, integrations with partner banks. First milestone: a working prototype of the full customer flow, from onboarding and account opening to receiving and sending money.

Requirements:

— A seasoned lead engineer with 10+ years in software engineering, still hands-on and writing code — Must have: experience building a neobank in Europe, where you built the banking core yourself: ledger, accounts, balances, transactions, bank integrations — You’ve taken it to production with real customer money and can explain the decisions you made and what you had to rebuild — Fluent English is a must, as the team works fully in English — The stack is open. The CTO leans towards Go, but it’s not a must

Setup: remote for the first months, then relocation to Dubai.

If this sounds like you, please DM me at recruiter contact with a few lines about your relevant experience and your salary expectations. Referrals are very welcome too.

We’re getting a lot of messages, so we’ll reply first to candidates whose experience matches the requirements above. If yours is different, we may reply later or not be able to reply, and I’m sorry in advance for that.