Backend Engineer - SDE2

ABOUT ASPORA People on the move deserve a bank that moves with them. Since 2022, Aspora has been building a borderless financial operating system that makes money as mobile and transparent as its users. Backed by influential venture capitalists like Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Hummingbird Ventures, Y Combinator & Global Founders Capital. We're a team of 150+ across India, the UK, the UAE, EU and the US, working with extreme ownership, radical candour, and an obsession with customer impact. We celebrate builders who question assumptions, ship fast, and turn regulatory complexity into elegant solutions. If you’re driven to redefine what global banking can be, we’d love to build the future with you. ABOUT THE ROLE This role exists to build the infrastructure that money moves on. Backend Engineering at Aspora isn't a support function. It is the core of everything we ship: the APIs that power cross-border transactions, the systems that handle millions of events without flinching, the architecture that makes regulated fintech feel effortless to the end user. You will be one of the earliest engineers to shape the platform from the ground up. That means real decisions, real tradeoffs, and real ownership. You will work directly with the founding team, product, and frontend to ship fast and build right. WHAT YOU'LL OWN - Design and build scalable backend systems that power Aspora's cross-border payment products end to end - Own the API layer: architect RESTful services and microservices that are modular, performant, and production-ready - Build resilient, fault-tolerant infrastructure capable of handling millions of transactions with high availability - Drive database design and optimisation across distributed systems to ensure speed and reliability at scale - Shape Aspora's engineering culture and architecture decisions as one of the earliest backend hires WHO YOU ARE 3–6 years in backend development, ideally at a product-led startup or fintech where you built for scale, not just maintained it. - Deep experience with RESTful APIs and microservices: you've designed them, not just consumed them - Proficient in Java, Spring Boot, Python, or Go; the language matters less than the depth of your systems thinking - High ownership. You treat a production incident as your problem until it is resolved. - Comfortable with ambiguity. You build structure where there isn't any, and write the playbook others follow. - Bias for execution: you ship, learn, and iterate without waiting for perfect conditions Strong advantages: experience in payments infrastructure, regulated fintech, or high-throughput distributed systems. Not required. WHY ASPORA - You will be an early architect of the core platform: the decisions you make here will define how Aspora scales across markets and jurisdictions - Build systems that move real money for real people navigating cross-border complexity, not demo flows or internal tooling - Work directly with the founding team on architecture tradeoffs that matter, with short feedback loops and full context - Gain deep exposure to the intersection of fintech regulation, global payment rails, and high-scale engineering - Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and ESOPs aligned with Aspora's long-term vision.