Sr Software Development Engineer - Backend

Nium, the Leader in Real-Time Global Payments 

Nium, the global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the global economy, its payments infrastructure is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere collect, convert, and disburse funds instantly across borders.  

Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 220+ markets, 100 of which in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 35 markets. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore. 

 About the Role

Our ideal candidate has deep experience in building scalable and reliable backend systems using Java, services and APIs that deliver value to our customers. This role will make impactful contributions and will proactively identify gaps and future work for the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver and own large features end-to-end.
• Collaborate with our product team to deliver high impact for our customers.
• Proactively identify ways to monitor the quality, reliability, and security of our systems.
• Abide by engineering best practices.
• You will design, analyse, code, test, and deploy applications to satisfy business requirements for large, complex projects.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, recommended not required.
• Experience building and operating highly available backend distributed systems
• Proficiency in at least one of Java, Python, C++, C#, Golang
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment
• Passion for turning business and product ideas into engineering solutions

What we offer at Nium  

We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work. 

We Care for Our Employees: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible working hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office). 

We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend

We Constantly Innovate: Since our inception, Nium has received constant recognition and awards for how we approach both our business and talent opportunities.

-2022 Great Place To Work Certification

-2023 CB Insights Fintech 100 List of Most Promising Fintech Companies. 

- CNBC World’s Top Fintech Companies 2024.

We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!  

We Thrive with Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.  

For more detailed region specific benefits :  https://www.nium.com/careers#careers-perks 

For more information visit www.nium.com 

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