Senior Technical Practitioner – Financial Services

• Work closely with senior engineering and technology stakeholders to solve complex, ambiguous technical problems
• Shape and review architecture for highly scalable, secure, and reliable financial systems
• Design and improve production-critical systems involving payments, transaction processing, banking infrastructure, ledgers, or related financial platforms
• Investigate complex technical issues and identify underlying risks and opportunities
• Challenge technical assumptions and provide clear, actionable recommendations
• Participate in architecture and code reviews with highly experienced engineers
• Drive initiatives from problem definition through solution without detailed task decomposition or constant supervision
• Establish engineering best practices around reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence
• Share expertise and mentor experienced engineers through hands-on collaboration and technical discussions
• Assess and solve ambiguous architecture, systems design, AWS, and senior-level collaboration challenges

• 15+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Experience at Staff, Principal, Architect, or equivalent senior individual-contributor level
• Strong track record designing, building, and owning complex production systems
• Deep financial services experience, including banking systems, payments infrastructure, transaction processing, ledgers, financial data systems, regulated financial infrastructure, or other high-stakes financial systems
• Strong AWS expertise, particularly in complex production environments
• Hands-on experience with reliability, resilience, security, observability, infrastructure architecture, and operating production workloads in regulated environments
• Ability to independently frame problems, investigate deeply, identify risks, and drive solutions
• Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with highly experienced technical peers
• Willingness to constructively challenge existing technical decisions
• Ability to transfer knowledge and raise the technical capability of the wider engineering organization
• Experience with cross-border payments, international remittances, multi-currency systems, digital banking or fintech platforms, financial ledgers, payment processing at scale, or regulated financial services environments highly valuable
• Experience with regulatory frameworks such as ADGM, DFSA, FCA, EU equivalents, or comparable jurisdictions highly valuable
• Meaningful overlap with Dubai / Gulf Standard Time (UTC+4) required

• Fully remote work arrangement
• Long-term engagement
• Potential opportunity or requirement to relocate to Dubai depending on the long-term engagement and mutual fit