Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

ABOUT THE ROLE

LeanX (Part of Lean) is quickly expanding beyond remittance into a new generation of financial products, from embedded wallets to corporate, and this role sits at the heart of that expansion. The ideal candidate brings experience in crypto or blockchain products, such as a good understanding of wallets, exchanges, custody, on-chain movements, and the ecosystem in general.

As a Senior Engineer, you will design and build the backend systems and integrations that power these products, working in a small, high-ownership team that moves fast and ships real things. Your work will directly determine how quickly LeanX (Part of Lean) can unlock a $50B+ addressable market across the region.

ABOUT LEAN

Lean is the leading financial infrastructure provider in the Middle East. We power some of the region's largest companies with APIs that enable payments, account verification, financial data access, and other critical financial infrastructure.

What started as the region's pioneering Open Banking platform and quickly became the de facto leader in account aggregation and payment initiation in the region is now becoming something bigger: a multi-product infrastructure company powering payments, data, and lending across MENA.

We've processed billions of dollars in transactions. We're trusted by 450+ clients - from Tabby and Tas'heel to Hungerstation - and backed by General Catalyst, Sequoia, and Shorooq. Our $67.5M Series B was just the beginning. We're expanding into new markets, opening offices, acquiring businesses, and building capabilities that didn't exist here before.

About LeanX: LeanX is Lean's cross-border and stablecoin business. Our clients are remittance companies, exchange houses and businesses moving money across borders, mostly for person-to-person remittance and business payouts. LeanX operates under Lean's regulated entities and is built by a dedicated engineering team in Sarajevo.

WHAT YOU’LL OWN

- Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-availability backend services in Java (Quarkus) and Python

- Build and maintain integrations with external systems - payment providers, exchanges, banks, blockchain networks, ClickHouse, and identity services

- Own the reliability, security, and consistency of transactions and financial data across systems

- Drive performance improvements, architecture decisions, and reduction of technical debt over time

- Review code, set engineering standards, and mentor other engineers on the team

- Translate product requirements into technical solutions in close collaboration with the Product team

- Proactively communicate progress, risks, and blockers to the team and stakeholders

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- 5+ years building and running backend systems in production - Strong Java (17+) with a modern framework - we use Quarkus; solid hands-on Python - Experience designing REST APIs and working in a microservices architecture. - Solid knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL) and caching (Redis) - Experience with messaging or event streaming systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) - Strong testing habits (unit and integration) and a track record of rigorous code review - Security-aware engineering: authentication, secrets handling, and secure coding practices - Experience building and operating high-throughput, low-latency, or high-availability systems - Familiarity with ClickHouse or other analytical databases