About StrideOne :

StrideOne is a unified tech-enabled financial platform and NBFC focused on enabling MSMEs and SMEs through structured credit solutions, receivables financing, and receivables management. We are designed to simplify access to capital, improve cash flow visibility, and support risk-aware financial decision-making for growing businesses across industries. With a steadily growing disbursement footprint, an expanding anchor network, and established partnerships with multiple lending institutions, StrideOne is entering its next phase of growth. The organisation is building a financial ecosystem that combines lending, receivables management, and data-driven workflows, positioning itself to scale sustainably while maintaining strong governance, portfolio quality, and operational discipline.

About the Role :

We're building CreditEngine, a lending platform on top of Apache Fineract that powers credit assessment, disbursement, repayment and portfolio management for our clients. We're looking for a senior Java backend engineer who can take ownership of core lending systems, drive technical design and build scalable, reliable services for financial workflows.

What You'll Work On :

- Own the design and development of backend services across lending, credit, disbursement, repayment and portfolio management.

- Design scalable APIs and services integrating with internal systems and external banking/financial partners.

- Extend Apache Fineract for custom lending products, workflows and business rules.

- Design and optimize MySQL schemas, queries and transactions for high-volume, audit-heavy financial data.

- Translate complex lending and credit policies into robust, tested and production-ready systems.

- Drive system scalability, performance, reliability and data integrity.

- Troubleshoot critical production issues involving financial transactions and ensure timely root-cause resolution.

- Lead code reviews, technical design discussions and engineering best practices.

- Mentor engineers and contribute to improving the overall backend engineering capability.

Must-Have Skills :

- 8 - 10 years of hands-on Java backend development; strong command of Java 8+ and object-oriented design.

- Strong experience with Spring Boot and REST APIs.

- Strong MySQL expertise including schema design, indexing, query optimization and transaction management.

- Experience designing scalable, high-availability backend systems.

- Strong understanding of transactional consistency, data integrity, auditability and distributed systems.

- Experience with microservices and asynchronous/event-driven architectures.

- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

- Comfortable working with Git and modern engineering practices.