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