# Software Engineer -Backend at Modulr > India · Unspecified · Backend · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Amodulrfinance%3A7735424002 (read 2026-11-12). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [Modulr](https://alderhq.app/companies/modulr) - Location text: Pune; Pune - Where it can be done from (inferred): India (evidence: "Location lists "pune"") - Posted: 2025-05-02 (559 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-07 · last verified: 2026-11-07 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://boards.greenhouse.io/modulrfinance/jobs/7735424002?gh_jid=7735424002 - Skills listed (inferred): Java, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Distributed systems ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: not posted - Market band for similar posted roles (India, n 6): p25 $26k, median $38k, p75 $98k ## Description (the employer's text) - Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking to innovate? - Do you want to work in embedded payments where you can keep learning and developing whilst getting hands-on experience? - Do you want to have the opportunity to play an important role in a rapidly growing and exciting Fintech business? ### If so, we would love to connect and collaborate! ### Who We Are Modulr is the payments automation platform that streamlines money movement with accuracy, control and reliability — built to scale. We process more than 200m transactions and over £180bn in payment value on an annualised basis, and we’re trusted by over 6,000 businesses from fast-growing SMEs to global enterprises. We automate how money moves into and out of a business — payroll, supplier payments, spend management and payment collection — through a single platform, connected to the accounting and payroll systems finance teams already use and underpinned by principal memberships of Visa and Mastercard and direct access to central bank infrastructure. As a regulated payments provider with over a decade of experience, we’re the platform finance teams trust to run mission-critical operations. Modulr is backed by PayPal, FIS, General Atlantic, Blenheim Chalcot, Frog Capital and Highland Europe, with over 400 employees across London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Mumbai and Pune. ### The Team At Modulr we are focused on building autonomous squads that are focused on working in the best possible way. We operate in a tribes and squad model with each area focused on a particular growth area. Each squad is small and cross-functional. We have big ambitions and have many interesting challenges ahead. ### Summary In this role you will design, build, and evolve the next generation of Modulr’s event-driven payments platform. You’ll work across the full engineering lifecycle—from shaping technical approaches to delivering production-grade software—within a squad that values ownership, excellence, and continuous improvement. ### Specific duties - Engineering & Architecture - Design and develop backend services using Java (17+) or similar OO languages. - Build and evolve microservices and distributed, event-driven components in a cloud-native environment. - Contribute to architectural patterns that support throughput, resilience, reliability, and observability. - Design clean, well-documented RESTful APIs and service contracts. - Work with relational data stores, especially PostgreSQL, and contribute to data modelling. ### Distributed Systems & Reliability • Engineer solutions for concurrency, idempotency, fault tolerance, retries, and high availability. • Improve system performance, reduce latency, and identify bottlenecks across services. • Build systems with strong observability—logs, metrics, tracing—ensuring issues can be diagnosed quickly. ### Quality & Testing • Develop comprehensive automated tests using frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber. • Participate in design and code reviews, helping raise engineering standards across the team. •Advocate for code quality, maintainability, and long-term technical health. ### DevOps, Cloud & Tooling • Use and improve deployment pipelines and operational tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS services). • Contribute to internal frameworks, shared libraries, and engineering best practices. • Help shape the evolution of our platform toward a more flexible, modern architecture. ### Collaboration & Delivery • Work in an agile environment, contributing to planning, design discussions, and iterative delivery. • Collaborate across squads to shape technical solutions that span multiple systems. • Document best practices, reference architectures, and design approaches others can rely on. ### About you You’re an engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and enjoys solving complex, system-level problems. You bring: • Expertise in Java or another OO language with willingness to work in Java. • Strong understanding of OOP, design patterns, and distributed systems fundamentals. • Experience building and operating microservices in production. --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Amodulrfinance%3A7735424002 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.