Mission:
The mission of this role is to lead and mentor the backend engineering team to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance e-invoicing solutions, while driving innovation, ensuring regulatory compliance, and collaborating across stakeholders to achieve business and technical objectives.
Role Specification:
Are you passionate about building scalable, cutting-edge software solutions? At FINEXUS, we offer you the opportunity to lead and innovate with AREMA, our cloud-native e-invoicing platform. Built on a modern software development stack and leveraging technologies like Airflow, Spark, Spring Boot, React, Kubernetes, and ArgoCD, AREMA offers a unique environment for solving complex challenges while accelerating your growth.
If you're excited about working with a dynamic team to deliver impactful solutions in the
fintech industry, we’d love to have you onboard!
Key Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership and Management
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers, ensuring high performance and engagement.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team.
- Manage resource allocation, performance reviews, and team development plans.
- Software Development Oversight
- Oversee the design, development, testing, and deployment of the e-invoicing system.
- Ensure the application architecture adheres to best practices for scalability, reliability, and security.
- Drive continuous improvements in code quality, performance, and maintainability.
- Project Management
- Collaborate with project managers, product managers, business analysts, and stakeholders to define project requirements and priorities.
- Create and manage project timelines, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality features.
- Proactively address risks, dependencies, and potential roadblocks.
- Compliance and Security
- Ensure the system complies with relevant regulatory standards and data privacy laws.
- Implement robust security measures to protect sensitive financial data.
- Innovation and Technology Strategy
- Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies in e-invoicing and fintech.
- Recommend and implement tools, frameworks, or methodologies to enhance productivity and system performance.
- Product Support and Incident Management
- Oversee the timely resolution of production issues and provide technical guidance to the support team.
- Act as the Incident Commander during critical incidents, coordinating cross- functional teams to ensure swift resolution and effective communication with stakeholders.
- Continuously improve incident response processes and documentation to enhance system reliability and minimize downtime.
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Act as the primary technical liaison between engineering, operations, and business teams.
- Communicate progress, challenges, and technical insights to non-technical stakeholders effectively.
Key Qualifications:
- Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a
related field.
- Minimum 7 years of software development experience, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
- Technical Expertise
- Strong knowledge of e-invoicing systems, APIs, and integrations with financial systems.
- Proficiency in programming languages in Java (preferable), Python, Golang etc.
- Experience with cloud services, containerized platforms (e.g. AWS EKS, Azure K8s, SUSE Rancher) and CI/CD pipelines.
- In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with database systems. Knowledge of SQL, ORMs, and a variety of databases (SQL and NoSQL).
- Leadership Skills
- Proven ability to manage and inspire engineering teams.
- Experience in handling cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder communication.
- Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to make sound technical and strategic decisions under pressure.
- Domain Knowledge
- Experience in financial technology, particularly in e-invoicing, Peppol, payments, or ERP integrations, is a significant advantage.
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and standards such as LHDN guidelines, BNM RMiT, or PCI DSS.