Working as part of an Engineering Group who are responsible for Product Development, maintenance, and evolution of the company’s products and services in the Fintech sector.  This position is a strategic role that requires both strong technical and communication skills.  You will need to have a proven track record of large system design and architecture with the ability to drive a technology roadmap.

Your role:

• Drive overall system architecture and design.
• Focus on reliability, scalability, maintainability, and security of the application.
• Carry out individual performance management in order to maintain and improve productivity and quality.
• Create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture.
• Mentoring and training of existing and new team members.
• Be proactive, increasing the efficiency of the day-day operations and report on team performance.
• Contribute towards process improvement, create and implement new methods, policies and processes enabling the company to exceed business goals and service reliability.

Desired skills and experience:

• Expert software design skills (understanding the pitfalls of design decisions).
• Expert in a Microservices, REST, distributed application environment.
• Expert in Java, Python, Groovy, DSL, Functional Programming.
• Expert with Oracle, Elastic Search, or other NoSQL storage mechanisms.
• Knowledge in messaging and streaming technologies such as RMQ or Kafka.
• UNIX power user skills.
• Knowledge of XML and XML tools e.g. XQuery, XPath is a plus.
• Demonstrate excellent leadership skills through personal responsibility, accountability and teamwork.
• Experience in an Engineering Lead role.

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Masters in Computer Science or Software Engineering or related technical discipline.

Additional requirements:

• Strong communication skills
• Self-Motivated
• Creative (not afraid to take the initiative)
• Ability to thrive under pressure.
• Detail oriented.
• Excellent interpersonal skill.
• Team player with willingness to learn and grow.