Lead Engineer

Core Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable backend solutions for our financial applications, using modern technologies and frameworks.
• Develop Java Webservices and components according to a detailed design document.
• Build efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code per industry best practices.
• Follow the TDD approach and ensure unit-test coverage meets quality requirements.
• Develop Integration tests to ensure coding adheres to acceptance criteria and verify the end-to-end behaviour of the system.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Drive team meetings to productive output.
• Technically mentor team to map them to their defined career path

• 10+ years’ experience specifically into backend (desirable to have Full Stack ) working within Financial Services or Banking is desirable but not essential

• 10+ years of experience in backend development, including experience with languages and frameworks such as Java
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
• Must have experience developing in Java's latest version (the last version is 8).
• Must have experience in design and development using Microservice architecture.
• Solid knowledge of OOP concepts, and design principles/patterns for developing scalable applications.
• Must have experience developing Spring Boot applications.
• Must have experience developing database access layers using Spring Data JPA/Hibernates.
• Must have experience in developing REST Services using Spring.
• Good working experience in the development of event-driven systems using any framework.
• Must have experience in domain driven design construct.
• Must have experience with any RDBMS and at least one NoSQL database preferably PostgresSQL and Mongo DB.
• Must have experience writing unit and integration tests using JUnit.
• Must have experience using mock frameworks like Mockito, and WireMock.
• Must have experience using Git.
• Must have experience with CI / CD.
• Basic hands-on experience in one of the cloud providers (AWS/Azure) or at least Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with build tools Maven or Gradle.
• Nice to have : nCino, Mambu