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Backend API Engineering Lead

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Orbis Consultants

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Spain , Málaga

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Job Description:

Building a next-generation BaaS (Banking-as-a-Service) platform designed to power secure, compliant, and AI-augmented financial services across Payments, Collections, and Cash Management domains. This role is ideal for backend engineers who enjoy owning domain services end-to-end, thrive in regulated financial environments, and are excited by the intersection of cloud-native engineering, API security, event-driven systems, and AI-augmented service delivery.

Job Responsibility:

Own the design and delivery of domain-critical backend services within a cloud-native, enterprise-grade environment

Requirements:

  • Deep expertise in Java (Spring Boot)
  • Deep expertise in Python (FastAPI)
  • Expertise in API security
  • Expertise in event-driven microservices
  • Experience with REST API design with OpenAPI 3.1 and event flows using AsyncAPI
  • Experience with Apache Kafka & Kafka Streams
  • Experience with Docker & Kubernetes (AKS primary
  • GKE supported)
  • Experience with Observability tools (Any of Datadog, Dynatrace Davis, Prometheus, ELK)
  • Experience in regulated financial environments

Nice to have:

  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Vector databases (Pinecone or Redis Vector)
  • RAG pipelines and LLMOps (prompt versioning, audit trails, hallucination testing)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 14, 2026

Work Type:
Hybrid work
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