Lead Software Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Identify problems, propose solutions, and contribute to solving issues beyond your specialty.
• Use domain modeling techniques to build best-in-class business products.
• Structure software for easy understanding, testing, and evolution.
• Build scalable solutions that avoid single points of failure and continuously update technologies and patterns.
• Develop secure code to protect customers and the organization from malicious actors.
• Investigate and fix issues promptly, ensuring zero downtime for end-users during releases.
• Monitor performance and use the right approach to identify and solve problems.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Experience as a back-end software engineer with a solid approach to writing unit-level tests using mocking frameworks and automating component, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Extensive experience with JVM languages (Java/Scala/Kotlin, preferably Java 8+) and automating deployment, releases, and testing in CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of security frameworks/standards, data streaming and messaging frameworks (Kafka, Spark, etc.), distributed tracing and monitoring (Zipkin, OpenTracing, Prometheus, ELK stack, Micrometer metrics, etc.), and experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Professional experience in an agile, dynamic, and customer-facing environment.
• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.), dependency injection frameworks (Spring/SpringBoot, Guice, etc.), microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, web technologies, and relational databases.
• Experience in lending.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills