Engineering Manager

Job Description

Defining and owning autonomously part of the target architecture for your domain, making sure that all the projects and services in the area follow it Working on early engineering phases to lay the groundwork for the team(s) in your area Working with the product team to select technology partners Leading the engineers in your team carefully dividing your time between design, coding and coaching other team members. You will be the person people turn to seeking advice and solutions to difficult problems Regularly aligning your vision and roadmap of the your part of the target architecture with other Staff Engineers and their respective target architectures to ensure the success of complex multi domain initiatives Working closely with product owners, mobile web engineers, data scientist and other business members to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions Making key contributions to our Community of Practice. You will apply your extensive experience on our problem domain and existing guidelines to become a true beacon of best practices among your fellow engineers WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: Have extensive experience (10+ years) building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of the relevant programming languages for your stack (e.g. Java 8 or newer). You don t need to know Java, but to be on top of the teams, you need to be willing to learn it (we already have a lot of microservices written in Java) Have a sound knowledge of a backend framework (e.g. Spring/Spring Boot) Have experience with running microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs (in the world of Open Banking often times they are gonna be public!) Have experience engineering scalable and reliable solutions in a cloud-native environment Demonstrate a mindset of delivering secure, well-tested and well-documented software Are willing to own your code and your team s processes from development to production Have exposure to complex solutions in the area of financial / payment services Have experience integrating with various third party providers and partners Have experience with relational databases. Are comfortable working in an agile environment Have the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience Have exposure to continuous integration, delivery and deployment OUR TECH STACK: Java, Spring Boot and JOOQ to build the RESTful APIs of our microservices (but we welcome people who are used to any strongly typed general purpose programming language!) Event-driven architecture with messages over SNS+SQS and Kafka to make them reliable Primary datastores are MySQL and PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora (we are heavy AWS users) Docker, Terraform, EKS used by the Cloud team to run the platform DataDog and Rollbar to keep it running GitHub with Sonarcloud, Semgrep and solid testing to power the CI/CD pipelines - new joiners are encouraged to have something deployed to production in their first 2 weeks Angular 2+ with ngrx on Web, Flutter for the Mobile App Fivetran/Snowflake/Looker for the BI insights and Python/Faust/Flask/Tecton + some ML libs for the automated decisioning and risk management WHAT YOU LL GET IN RETURN: Make work, work for you! We are embracing new ways of working and support flexible working arrangements. With our Working Out of Office (WOO) policy our colleagues can work remotely from home or anywhere in their home country. Additionally, you can work from a different country for up to 90 days a year. Plus, you ll get: Competitive salary Self Family Health Insurance Term Life Insurance OPD Benefits Mental wellbeing through Plumm Learning Development Budget WFH Setup allowance 25 Annual leaves Family Friendly Leave