Software Developer Team Lead - Senior Java Backend Developer - Colombia

Caseware is one of Canada's original Fintech companies, having led the global audit and accounting software industry for over 30 years, with more than 500,000 users across 130 countries and available in 16 different languages. While you might not have heard of us (yet) over 36,000 accounting and audit professionals list Caseware as a skill on their LinkedIn profiles!

As a Senior Software Developer at CaseWare, you’ll design, develop, test and deploy microservices to support the analysis of data in our Cloud. You will collaborate with multiple upstream and downstream squads to design and deliver complex and innovative solutions to support the analysis of large data sets at scale. You will be a part of the Data Analytics team that enables data extraction from various sources providing insightful reporting, tailored analytics, and risk management. 

You’ll be reporting into: Shane O´Sullivan - Team Lead

Contact:

Maira Russo - Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

What you will be doing in the first 6 months :

• Development; Leading and delivering development tasks through all SDLC phases
• Research; completing research and proof of concepts that can be converted into MVPs
• Cross team collaboration; Collaboration with other teams in Caseware, including cloudops, devops and product.
• Actively participating in code reviews
• Understanding and contribute to the existing architecture

What you will be doing in the first year :

• Technical ownership; taking ownership of modules in the DA arch
• Technical oversight; Providing developers with day-to-day technical guidance on the technology they use. Code reviews, architecture, tooling and libraries. Driving operational excellence by identifying and eliminating root causes for problems that effect the clients and team.
• Mentorship; mentoring junior members on the team
• Representing the team in technical discussions with other developers, leads, product and ops.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience working on an agile team 
• Strong communication and collaboration skills 
• Minimum 4 years creating distributed, data-intensive, and highly scalable production-grade applications with Java 8/11 + SpringBoot + AWS 
• Exposure to JavaScript frameworks 
• Experience with Rest API/Microservices and concepts such as domain driven design, event-driven design, atomic/acid, etc. 
• Proven experience with AWS services like SQS, SNS, Dynamodb, Step functions, lambda, RDS, S3, EMR 
• Proven experience in real-time and batch data transformation processes using a wide range of technologies using EMR, Hadoop, Spark SQL, Java, Hive etc. 
• Strong experience with Spark Core 
• Developed production-ready Spark applications using Dataframes, Datasets, Spark SQL and Spark Streaming 
• Worked in ETL projects, implementing multi-threading, manipulating small(~1KB) to large(~10GB) datasets 
• Strong SQL knowledge with skills to analyze/write complex SQLs
• Experience with unit testing and writing automated tests that work in a trunk-based lifecycle 
• Experience mentoring developers on design and coding best practices, quality, performance, and security and code reviews 
• Strong English language communication and collaboration skills - B2 minimum

Nice to have:

• Exposure to Serverless Architectures 
• Experience with GitHub Actions 
• Experience with Spark Streaming 
• Experience with asynchronous messaging systems 
• Understanding of various infrastructures - Hybrid, On-Premises and Cloud 
• Experience in frontend technologies like Javascript frameworks (Angular) 
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional level 

Perks & Benefits

• Contrato a termino Indefinido with all the legal benefits
• Prepaid Medicine
• Life insurance and funeral assistance
• Internet allowance
• Home office stipend
• Competitive compensation — above the market average
• 100% remote work environment and an excellent work-life balance
• Opportunity to work for a growing global SaaS leader company
• A culture that promotes independence, innovation, trust, and accountability
• Open space to be creative, innovative and strategize for the future
• Mentorship by highly experienced professional
• Budget for training, we want you to grow
• 5 Personal Time Off days per year
• Sick Leave Top up to total 100% of salary paid by the employer from Day 3 to 90.

Team Lead/Long term

• Team coordination, overseeing the day to day on the team agile ceremonies, leading meetings, unblocking developers
• Performance reviews, conducting annual performance reviews, while giving constant constructive feedback throughout the review cycle
• Project planning and delivery; timeline management, assigning tasks to developers, managing the timeline of projects and tracking the team’s performance
• Client collaboration. Communication with distributors, progress updates and facilitating meetings with your developers.

About Caseware

Caseware's cutting-edge software products are meticulously designed for accounting firms, corporations, and governments. Our teams are continually collaborating, innovating, and building upon our existing suite of products. With a customer-focused mindset, we are building technology that is shaping what the future of audits, financial reporting, and financial data analytics will look like.

With a recent strategic investment from Hg Capital in 2020, Caseware is now in its next major growth phase as we double down on the people and products that have made Caseware so successful to date.

One of Caseware's core values is Many Voices, One Team and with that in mind, we're dedicated to building teams as diverse as our customers in an equitable and inclusive way. We welcome and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. Should you require accommodations or have any questions at any point during the application or interview process, please e-mail our People Operations team at [email protected].

Any candidates successful in obtaining an offer for a position will need to successfully complete a background check through Certn.co which typically includes an Identity Verification and Criminal Record Check. Executives and Senior Managers will undergo a Soft Credit Check as well.