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Backend Engineer

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About Payoneer

Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Role summary 

We are seeking a seasoned Backend Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable, high-quality backend systems. In this role, you will drive technical architecture, mentor teammates and collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to deliver robust solutions. 

You’ll champion engineering best practices, proactively identify areas for improvement and lead efforts to ensure system reliability, performance and a seamless customer experience. 

Location: Gurgaon-India 

Hybrid - Full-time What you’ll do 

Design and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable backend solutions for complex scenarios, ensuring high-quality results that may be consumed by other teams. 

Collaborate effectively within your team and with cross-functional partners, such as Product, Design/UX, DevOps, and other R&D teams, representing your team as needed. 

Maintain and improve the team's engineering practices, suggesting and implementing technology, patterns, or process enhancements. 

Proactively identify areas of improvement in team systems, processes, and scalability.

Lead by example in code quality, contributing significantly to code reviews and acting as a focal point for engineering excellence questions. 

Help monitor production systems, investigate potential issues, and lead efforts to resolve critical production challenges while maintaining a customer-centric approach. 

Who you are 

4+ years in backend software engineering roles, with demonstrated ability to navigate technical trade-offs and ambiguity effectively. 

Proficiency in C#, Java, or similar object-oriented languages. 

Hands-on knowledge of relational databases like SQL Server. 

Experience with message queues or streaming platforms (e.g., RabbitMQ, SQS, Kaffia). 

Strong experience writing unit tests and ensuring high test coverage. 

Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms. 

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