Java Tech Lead

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our core engineering team and help build high-

throughput, low-latency services that power real-time trading at scale. What We’re Looking For

You are someone who has built backend systems in a regulated, high-stakes environment — ideally fintech, brokerage, payments, or banking. You think in terms of system reliability, data correctness, and operational

excellence. You take ownership of services end-to-end: from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and incident response. You communicate clearly, make pragmatic trade-offs, and hold yourself and

your peers to a high engineering bar. What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and own backend microservices for a real-time trading platform — from API contracts

through to production observability. • Work with databases, caches, and event-driven architectures to ensure high availability and data

consistency across distributed systems. • Build integrations with third-party financial services — clearing, settlement, identity verification, and

payment rails. • Define and enforce engineering standards — code reviews, testing strategies, API design conventions, and incident response processes. • Collaborate with product, design, and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into

well-scoped technical deliverables. • Participate in on-call rotations and own production reliability for the services you build. • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. Must-Have

• 5+ years backend engineering experience with Golang and Java in production. • Strong experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, and event-driven messaging (Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ). • Experience building and maintaining REST/gRPC APIs at scale with proper error handling, rate limiting, and versioning. • Understanding of financial systems — ledgers, reconciliation, order lifecycle, or payment processing.

• Experience with microservices architecture, API gateways, and service-to-service communication

patterns. • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud infrastructure (AWS or

GCP). • Strong debugging and incident-response skills in distributed systems. Nice-to-Have

• Prior experience at a brokerage, wealth-tech, neo-bank, or payments company. • Experience with clearing broker integrations or introducing broker models. • Knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements for cross-border financial products. • Experience with search infrastructure (Typesense, Elasticsearch). • Background in performance engineering — profiling, load testing, and latency optimization. Tech Stack

Languages Golang (primary), Java; Python (analytics/scripting)

Databases PostgreSQL, Redis, Typesense

Messaging Kafka, NATS, SSE / WebSocket

Infrastructure Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Terraform

Integrations Clearing broker APIs, KYC providers, payment gateways

Observability Datadog / Grafana, PagerDuty, structured logging (ELK)

Role: .Net Developer

Experience Level: 4 to 9 Years

Work location: Mumbai, Bangalore, Trivandrum (Hybrid)

Key Responsibilities:

● Develop and maintain scalable .NET microservices for diverse client projects

● Implement robust Web APIs with proper error handling, validation, and security

● Write comprehensive unit and integration tests ensuring high code quality

● Design portable, efficient solutions deployable across different client environments

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams and client stakeholders

● Optimize application performance and implement caching strategies

● Implement security best practices for enterprise applications

● Participate in code reviews and maintain coding standards

● Support deployment and troubleshooting in client environments

Must have skills:

Core Technical Expertise:

● .NET Framework/Core: 4+ years of production experience with .NET Core 3.1+ / .NET 5+ and C# 8+

● Frameworks: Strong hands-on experience with ASP.NET Core Web API, Entity Framework Core

● REST API Development: Proven experience designing and implementing RESTful web services, middleware

implementation

● Design Patterns: Solid understanding and implementation of SOLID principles, Dependency Injection, Repository

pattern

● Testing: Experience with unit testing (xUnit, NUnit, MSTest), mocking frameworks (Moq), integration testing

Microservices & Deployment:

● Containerization: Hands-on Docker experience for packaging and deploying .NET applications

● Microservices Architecture: Understanding of service decomposition, inter-service communication, distributed

systems

● Abstraction & Portability: Configuration management (appsettings.json, IConfiguration), environment-agnostic design

● Package Management: NuGet package management, understanding of project dependencies

Good to have have skills:

Advanced Technical:

● Advanced Frameworks: .NET 6/7/8, Minimal APIs, gRPC, SignalR for real-time communication

● ORM & Database: Advanced Entity Framework Core, Dapper, database migrations

● Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker

● Cloud Platforms: Azure (App Service, Functions, Service Bus), Alibaba, or GCP services

● Message Brokers: Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka

● Databases: Both SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra)

● API Gateway: Azure API Management, Kong API Gateway

Development & Operations:

● CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

● Monitoring & Observability (Application Insights, Serilog, Prometheus)

● Security best practices (HTTPS, CORS, input validation, secure coding)

● Background Services (Hosted Services, Hangfire, Quartz.NET)

Position = Java Developer

We are looking forward to hire a committed Java Developer with experience in building high performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. You will be part of our Engineering team that works on mission-critical applications. You will be managing Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing.

You are required to:

Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle.

Write well designed, testable & efficient code.

Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications.

Prepare and produce releases of software components.

Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.

Technical Skills required

Java, Springboot, Microservices, Data structures & Algorithms, MySQL, NoSQL, Mongodb and Hibernate.

OUR CURRENT STACK

Backend: Spring (JAVA), Laravel (PHP), MySQL, NoSQL, NGINX Plus.

Frontend: Angular 5+ Ngrx/store 5

Infrastructure: Google cloud platform (App engine, CloudSQL, BigQuery, PubSub, Firebase Hosting), Scrapy Cloud, Pusher.io (websockets), Getstream.io, Filestack, Postmark app, AS2 Gateway, Google Cloud Endpoints Framework, MongoDB, Algolia, Memcache

Tools: Gitlab, Postman app, JIRA. Wondering what your Responsibilities would be? Technical Skills required O

You are where our search ends, if you hold:

B. Tech/ M. Tech or corresponding degree

Experience in the same role of almost 1-6 years

Experience with connecting backend and frontend services.

Exposure to consuming data through different interfaces (Web API's/Socket/ REST/ RESTFUL/ JSON/ XML).

Proficiency in Data Structures and Algorithms.

Understanding of web markup, including HTML 5 CSS.

Understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks.

Ability to write clean, reusable and well documented code.

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

Knowledge of API authentication techniques (Token, JWT, OAuth2) - desirable but not mandatory. (Experience with API Design will be a plus)

Fair spoken and written English Flexibility - Things change around here. FAST!

Other Inter-personal skills like self-motivation, persistency, patience and eagerness to learn and work independently.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Proven experience in Java 8, Spring Boot, Microservices and API
• Strong experience with Kafka, Kubernetes
• strong experience in using RDBMS (Mysql) and NoSQL.
• Experience working in Eclipse or Maven environments
• Hands-on experience in Unix and Shell scripting
• hands-on experience in fine-tuning application response and performance testing.
• experience in Web Services.
• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision
• Proven ability to use own initiative to resolve issues
• Full ownership of projects and tasks
• Ability and willingness to work under pressure, on multiple concurrent tasks, and to deliver to agreed deadlines
• Eagerness to learn
• Strong team-working skills

Brief Overview:

Through your work at Vauld, you will have the opportunity to change money for the 21st century. We’re a leading cryptocurrency platform and are passionate about increasing economic freedom around the world. 

We are looking for a Lead Backend Engineer who has hands-on experience working with and leading Product teams and has solved for and built complex backend solutions. You'll be involved with bringing features and products from idea to completion and mentoring an incredibly talented group of peers.

If you are looking for a challenging work environment where you can grow and deepen your technical skills as a backend engineer and architect, we’d love to chat with you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with CXO’s, product managers, devops, and frontend engineers to collaboratively own the backend-end layer for Vauld’s application.
• Architect and build highly scalable, secure features keeping the long term vision of the product.

Requirements:

• You have 7 years or more of backend development experience with expertise in designing and implementing high-performance applications.
• Worked with and built high performance products using Node Js/GoLang/ Python and have seen the product evolution cycle from PoC to Production 
• You have a deep understanding of design principles and can rightly judge/implement solutions to complex problems
• You are capable of writing high-quality code that conforms to the standards and best practices in a particular language/framework.
• You have experience building a product using a mainstream library or framework.
• You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then production environment, and finally monitoring.

Preferred:

• Previous work experience in product-based startups
• Experience building for products that have scaled and have seen the product evolution
• Understands the cryptocurrency landscape

Working at Vauld:

You will join a fun and intellectually stimulating work environment. If you’re excited by the idea of making a real impact and joining a team where we pride ourselves on being disruptive and ambitious, a career with Vauld is perfect for you.