Technical Lead

Daily Duties and Main Responsibilities will include:

• Line Management of several Software Engineers: Leading the engineers in their day-to-day activities and professional development.
• Coaching and upskilling engineers
• Advising Engineering and Product Management on the technical and architectural strategy for components/modules of the Cloudpay platform and ensuring alignment with relevant Product Area(s):
• Includes selecting and providing guidance on the appropriate design methodology (such as object-oriented, function-oriented, component-based) and strategies to be used within a project.
• Determining design alternatives with trade-off analysis.
• Technical leadership of architectural and engineering initiatives in a particular product area
• Working collaboratively with Agile Teams to understand the business domain and client requirements; drive analysis, architecture/design and development of quality deliverables and technical solutions crossing a broad spectrum of technologies.
• Designing and building solutions in the context of a legacy platform transitioning to microservice architecture.
• Establishing and upholding code standards and best practices through code reviews and refactoring efforts; identifying improvements to coding and technical standards
• Promoting a culture of producing quality products and compliance to quality processes across the team
• Identifying and investigating complex platform issues with respect to performance, security, scalability, maintainability and reliability upon deployment; presenting solutions and championing priorities

Attributes and Experience Required:

• Extensive hands-on development experience, minimum of 7 years with a strong foundation in OOP and Design Patterns, Clean code and SOLID principles
• Experience leader/people manager of software engineers (ideally team of 5++) and professionals from associated disciplines.
• Proven experience setting the technical strategy, implementing and tuning enterprise scale applications.
• Strong working knowledge of Java 11, Spring framework or Spring boot, JavaScript, JQuery and RESTful Web-Services
• Spring Boot web, Security, Actuator, AMQP, JPA, batch and mail
• Java 17 working knowledge is an edge
• Demonstrable experience in microservice architecture and design patterns, and implementing microservices
• Experience working with relational (MySQL/MariaDB) AND NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) database management systems and ability to write complex queries.
• Experience in API-driven development
• Experience in application performance tuning and secure coding
• Comfortable in engaging with a wide range of roles (juniors, seniors, other stakeholders) to collaborate on solutions and communicate technical ideas
• Working knowledge of Agile/Lean practices
• Experience in leveraging containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and developing cloud-native applications

Soft skills needed:

• Strong teamworking and communication skills
• Excellent logical, analytical skills and attention to detail
• Self-starter, able to own, prioritize and plan own workloads
• Flexibility in working to tight timescales to meet release deadlines

The following would be an advantage:

• Experience in Node.js, Groovy, AngularJS, React-Redux, Vue.js
• Background in Payroll, HR or other financial domains
• Experience in data modeling, data architecture/engineering

Package and Benefits:

• Competitive annual salary and benefits package
• 18 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Earned Wage Access (via CloudPay Now app)
• Flexible remote working
• 10 days sick leave
• HMO
• Personal and professional development opportunities
• Friendly working environment