Backend Team Lead

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage in daily 'team sessions' where we collaboratively plan, engage in pair programming, and share moments of levity
• Hold one-on-one meetings with your team members, and foster their ongoing development and learning
• Strong leadership and project management skills
• Engage in collaboration with your colleagues and the People Empowerer to navigate complex technical trade-offs
• Excellent communication skills, problem-solving oriented, and a team player
• Writing well designed, reusable, testable and secure code by applying best software development practices
• Designing and implementing low-latency, high-availability and performant applications
• Architecting well defined APIs for user facing elements developed by front end developers
• Collaborating in a multi-disciplinary team
• Participating and conducting code reviews
• Discovering, learning and implementing new technologies
• Mentoring junior team members in best practices

Qualifications & Experience:

• BSc/MSc/PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent work experience
• At least 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in designing and building backend systems
• Proficiency with Java and Spring Framework (Boot, Data, Cloud, Security, etc.)
• Proficiency with OOP concepts, large-scale software architecture, networking and distributed system and UNIX/Linux environments
• Good understanding of fundamental design principles for a scalable application
• Experience with Service-oriented architecture, microservices, REST APIs and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with Kafka and Kafka Streams
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficiency in code versioning tools such as Git
• Strong sense of analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Highly Effective time management and multitasking skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have:

• Experience with relational and non-relational data stores, key-value stores and search engines (Postgres, ScyllaDB, Druid, Hazelcast, Redis, Elasticsearch etc.)
• Experience in architecting, designing and implementing large scale systems
• Working knowledge with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and/or any other cloud computing service provider
• Experience or willing to learn large scale stream processing technologies
• Prior experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies