Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of software engineers responsible for delivering impactful features across one or multiple core banking products
- Drive the end-to-end development process from planning, design, implementation, testing and release
- Collaborate and communicate effectively with the cross functional teams consisting of product and business stakeholders, engineers and QA in an agile, fast-paced environment
- Provide technical leadership by evaluating technical designs and driving architectural direction for their team
- Proactively monitor, suggest and implement best practices across engineering and operational excellence - observability, reliability, quality, performance, security, production support
- Regularly provide constructive feedback to team members to achieve their performance and development goals
- Actively participate in hiring and improving the onboarding and retention of new engineers
Qualifications and Experience:
- 8-10 years of total experience with 1+ year of experience in managing a team in a fast-growing company, building and maintaining backend applications
- A growth mindset with passion for building things from the ground up, and most importantly, leading by example
- Passionate about coaching and people development
- Experience using an agile iterative software development process with a strong hold on planning and execution
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills focused on improving collaboration, understanding and information sharing across cross functional and distributed teams
- Excellent time management skills to prioritize and focus on value delivering initiatives
- Ability to think strategically and implement processes to lead the engineers towards excellence
- Hands-on experience in a programming, technical design, micro services development and event driven architecture
- Experience with backend technologies - Golang, Python, Redis, MySQL, NoSQL, SQS, Kafka, AWS services etc.
- Experience with tools - Atlassian stack (JIRA, Confluence, bitbucket), Slack, DataDog, Grafana etc.
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