engineering
Posted 3 weeks agoStaff Engineer
at Candescent
IndiaRemote
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end delivery life cycle including production readiness, monitoring, and support.
- Ensure that features and services delivered by the team meet performance, reliability, and security expectations.
- Maintain accountability for addressing production issues, driving RCAs, and implementing long-term fixes.
- Design and develop integration services using Spring Boot, WebFlux, Netty, REST APIs, and microservices.
- Support modernization of existing integration components into cloud-native, reactive architectures.
- Collaborate with SRE and operations teams to improve system reliability, observability, and operational workflows.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to secure coding and engineering best practices.
- Improve developer productivity through tools, automation, and CI/CD pipeline enhancements.
- Promote the adoption of observability, proactive monitoring, and automated quality checks.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on design patterns, testing, debugging, and production readiness.
Requirements
- Staff Engineer - Integrations Location: Hyderabad, India Reports to: Director, Integrations Engineering Company: Candescent – Powering the Future of Digital Banking Role Summary Candescent is transforming digital banking with a modern, AI-powered platform that empowers financial institutions to deliver smarter, faster, and more personalized customer experiences.
- experience integrating with card and core banking processors (FiServ, Visa, FIS) is needed.
- This role requires strong expertise in Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, Netty, REST APIs, microservices, and cloud-native deployment on Kubernetes.
- Strong proficiency in: Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, reactive programming Netty, Reactor, non-blocking I/O REST APIs and microservices Distributed systems fundamentals Kubernetes, Docker, containers Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure) Good understanding of JVM internals, GC logs, thread dumps, and performance profiling tools.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps practices, and tools like ArgoCD. Hands-on
- experience with logs, metrics, traces, and troubleshooting production incidents.
- Deep understanding of banking domain integration patterns (onboarding, KYC, transaction flows, core banking interfaces). Integration
- experience with core banking and card processors is required. Awareness of security and compliance
- Experience with distributed tracing tools (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin). Familiarity with APM tools such as Dynatrace, New Relic, or AppDynamics. Exposure to high-throughput systems (>500 TPS).
- Experience with Resilience4j, API gateways, or service mesh architectures.
- Knowledge of caching frameworks like Redis or Hazelcast.
Experience
- Requirements (Must-Have) 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
Additional details
- Candescent is a forward-thinking technology company transforming how financial institutions deliver Intelligent Banking experiences.
- We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions—creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels.
- Our Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation.
- Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth—turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection.
- In addition to core engineering responsibilities, the Staff Engineer will mentor junior engineers, improve code quality and testing standards, own end-to-end delivery of features, and support production operations by triaging and resolving issues to maintain high customer satisfaction. Key
- requirements analysis, technical design, development, testing, and deployment of integration services.
- Contribute to architectural discussions and ensure solutions follow best practices for scalability and maintainability.
- Contribute to cross-team design reviews and technical discussions with product, QA, DevOps, and architecture teams.
- Assist in evaluating technical risks and ensuring compliance with security and regulatory requirements.
- Contributions to internal frameworks, reusable libraries, or open-source software.