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

Experience Requirements

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

Knowledge Requirements

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