Senior Associate / Associate, Backend Developer - Consumer Banking

About the role

DBS is hiring a Senior Associate / Associate Backend Developer within its Group Technology team, which supports the Consumer Banking Group. The team builds the bank's operational processes and delivers banking services through multiple channels. The position 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 environments.
• Implement event-driven and asynchronous processing with Apache Kafka and messaging frameworks.
• Analyse requirements and turn them into technical solutions, optimise database schemas, SQL queries and stored procedures, and ensure performance and reliability.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis and maintain technical documentation and API specifications.
• Work with Product Owners, architects, QA, DevOps and business stakeholders.

Required profile

• Strong expertise in microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Core Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC and Spring Data JPA.
• Event-driven architectures and Apache Kafka.
• Hands-on experience with OCP or Kubernetes.
• SQL and NoSQL databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• API security (OAuth2, JWT, SSL/TLS) and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git, Maven, SonarQube).
• Preferred: banking or financial services experience, API gateways, monitoring/logging tools (Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus) and cloud platform knowledge.