Senior Associate / Associate, Backend Developer - Consumer Banking Technology

About the role

DBS is hiring a Senior Associate / Associate Backend Developer within its Group Technology team, which builds the bank's efficient, nimble and resilient infrastructure and manages most of its operational processes. The role is based at DBS @ UE Biz Hub, is full time and regular.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable, secure, high-performance backend applications using Java, Spring Boot and microservices.
• Build and expose RESTful APIs and backend services for digital banking platforms and enterprise applications.
• Deploy microservices on OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and Kubernetes-based environments.
• Implement event-driven and asynchronous processing with Apache Kafka and messaging frameworks.
• Analyse requirements and turn them into robust technical solutions.
• Design and optimise database schemas, SQL queries, stored procedures and integration patterns across relational and NoSQL databases.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis and improve system stability.
• Maintain technical documentation, API specifications and deployment guides, and collaborate with Product Owners, architects, QA, DevOps and business stakeholders.

Required profile

• Strong expertise in microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Proficiency in Core Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC and Spring Data JPA.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing applications on OCP or Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Preferred: banking or financial services experience, enterprise integration patterns and API gateways, and exposure to monitoring/logging tools such as Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Dynatrace or Prometheus.

Required skills

• Event-driven architectures and messaging platforms, especially Apache Kafka.
• API security: OAuth2, JWT, SSL/TLS.
• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, Maven, SonarQube and automated testing frameworks.
• Cloud platforms and modern backend engineering practices.