Senior Back End Engineer

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: St Julians, Malta, Malta, Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Java Development: Design, develop, and maintain Java-based services, microservices, and data processing components that power regulatory integrations and reporting outputs.
• SQL & Data Pipeline Development: Build and optimise complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and data transformations for regulatory datasets, ensuring accuracy, performance, and scalability.
• Regulatory Integration Design & Implementation: Design, develop, and maintain robust integrations between internal platforms and external regulators, ensuring data is delivered accurately and within required timelines.
• Automation & Optimization: Implement automation for regulatory reporting and validation processes to improve efficiency, reduce manual effort, and minimise operational risk.
• Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Monitor regulatory pipelines and services, proactively detect issues, and resolve data or processing discrepancies promptly to maintain reporting SLAs.
• Data Quality & Governance: Champion data quality, lineage, and governance practices across regulatory datasets, ensuring outputs are accurate, reproducible, and auditable.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with compliance, product, operations, and engineering teams to translate regulatory requirements into clear technical specifications and solutions.
• Documentation & Process Improvement: Document integrations, services, and operational procedures; contribute to process improvement initiatives and ensure adherence to best practices.
• Technical Support & Incident Resolution: Provide technical support during incident resolution relating to regulatory reporting pipelines and data discrepancies.
• Agile Participation: Actively participate in all agile scrum meetings such as daily standups, refinement sessions, and retrospectives.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Propose and implement new ideas to improve existing products, processes, and tooling, fostering a culture of innovation within the team.
• Code Review & Mentorship: Perform code reviews for other engineers, mentor more junior team members, and actively promote knowledge sharing within the team.
• Stakeholder Communication: Effectively communicate with stakeholders across technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring that requirements, risks, and status updates are transmitted clearly and to the right people.

Requirements

• Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in software or data development, with a strong focus on backend / data-intensive systems.
• Strong Java development skills, including experience building and maintaining production services and data processing components.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with large structured and unstructured datasets, including query optimisation and performance tuning.
• Strong knowledge of Microservices and APIs.
• Solid understanding of data governance, compliance, and data quality assurance.
• Solution-oriented mindset with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across the data stack.