Backend Technical Lead

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Mobile Payment • Mobile Banking • digital financial solutions • digital wallets • real time payments

51 - 200 employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

💰 $12.5M Series D on 2018-05

Description

• End-to-end responsibility for projects of increasing complexity that encompass more than their own development • Be independent with little oversight beyond high level direction, works on complex tasks and completes them despite roadblocks, including debugging techniques • Help large groups of engineers deliver complex projects with drama-free launches, owning the technical testing and performance planning side of these projects • Deliver software on-time and improve the accuracy of team’s estimations • Understand the business that their code supports, and possess empathy for the users of their software, using this understanding to influence their task prioritization • Understand the tradeoffs between technical, analytical and product goals, and strive to create solutions that satisfy all the business goals • Write consistently high-quality code, deliver features to QA that they believe are well-baked and bug-free, being aware of industry best practices and trends • Be known outside of their core team as a technology leader, working effectively with non-tech members of their pillar. Ability to identify problems with requirements and help their team course-correct around these issues • Research and propose new technologies, and have a broad understanding of the entire architecture, as well as very detailed understanding of their area • Proactively identify and clean up technical debt before it turns into a long-term problem, and encourage and enable their team to do the same • Identify risks in code, features, and design, and communicate these to the appropriate parties • Participate in architecture designs providing feedback and also providing designs with guidance from the architecture team, as appropriate • Ability to identify and suggest areas of future work for themselves and others while contributing to the common standards for the team • Balance leadership and individual contribution by providing extensive mentoring of junior team members while maintaining deep individual contribution • Seek evidence to support their ideas and start to build cases for these ideas • Support deployment releases as needed and maintain the application once it’s in production

Requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject • Significant experience leading and mentoring a team • Expert in Java and Enterprise Java technologies and development • Expert in the Spring framework (Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Security, etc) • Expert in designing and implementing RESTful web services • Expert building web applications from the ground up • Experience converting business requirements into technical design documents • Ability to write well-designed, testable, efficient code • Knowledge of or working experience with CI/CD pipelines; including technologies such as Docker, Jenkins/Concourse • Experience with cloud technologies, such as GCP • Agile (scrum) based delivery practices, test driven development, test automation, and continuous delivery • Solid understanding of object-oriented principles • Demonstrated success in building design patterns and software engineering best practices • Experience with Oauth2 • Solid understanding of hibernate • Solid understanding of microservices • Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and NoSQL • Experience with maven and gradle • Experience with Netty • Proven experience with messaging technologies, including but not limited to queues, topics, publisher/subscriber patterns, and brokers. • Proficient in using Git for version control and mastering the Gitflow workflow • Spanish: Native • English: Excellent command / highly proficient in spoken and written English