Java Team Lead

Software Lead – Java Lead

Desired Candidate Profile

Experience : Prior experience of 8-10 years

Education : Bachelor’s Degree, MBA, MS, M.Tech, MCA (Computer Science / IT)

Certification : Product Management Training, Leadership and Management Training

Skills : Strategic Thinking, Leadership, Communication Skills, Agile Methodologies, Team Collaboration Excellent people management skills including leadership, development and coaching skills.

Industry : Fintech / Digital Payments / Financial Services / Banks / NBFC / Supply Chain Finance / Trade Finance / Invoice Discounting Platform / Commercial Banking / Investment Banking / Venture Capital / Micro Finance / Capital Loan

Key Skills : Candidate must have prior working knowledge as well-as experience in Agile / Scrum practices with ability to Plan and Manage tasks, teams w.r.t key organizational as well as project deliverables. Candidate must also have had hands-on developer experience in the past.

Additional Skills : Any experience on working on Java Spring boot Microservices will be a plus.

Location : Thane Head Office (Mumbai)

Reporting to – Chief Technology Officer

Roles and Responsibilities :

As a Software development lead, you will be instrumental in shaping our technology endeavours. Your role encompasses :

1. Driving a world-class fintech product development for the organization to create best-in-class products through continuous improvement, agility, and high efficiency.

2. Define, implement, and evolve a business strategy through technology research using data that will lead to the origination of new business services or advancement of existing businesses.

3. Act as an owner to execute product strategy and vision.

4. Provide project & technical leadership to deliver software solutions that exceed customer and stakeholder expectations. Drive innovative development processes across the Product Development organization, including movement toward agile.

5. Manage timely software and product deliverables by meticulous Agile / Sprint planning.

6. Be responsible for key technical areas of core products and services. Constantly pursue and learn industry leading / innovative solutions.

7. Drive cross-functional success by collaborating with leadership from Sales, Operation and business.

8. Updating the technical competitiveness of existing products.

9. Development and execution of short- and long-term product roadmaps.

10. Introduction of new potential technologies.

11. Driving the development of the new generation products in line with market needs.

12. Foster individual, team, and organization growth, while maintaining a strong, inclusive, customer-focused culture. Facilitate rapid hiring and onboarding of dynamic, diverse engineering talent.

13. Create, communicate, and track key performance and delivery metrices on the efficiency of the Product Development team, and on the delivery of projects that drive critical business initiatives.

Competencies :

• Technical Agility – mindset to continually challenge the existing version, being techno savvy, benchmark the best practices in the industry and navigate and suggest futuristic roadmaps.
• Market Landscape - Ability to take on opportunities, identify initiatives etc that will get quick wins and have biggest impacts for the organization.
• Strong financial and analytical to have the competitive edge on the competition and market dynamics
• People Management - Strong team management skills with ability to deliver individually and through the team.
• Strength in problem solving, ability to work in a deadline driven work environment and ability to multitask. If you love working with people and thrive in fast-paced environments, we would like to have a conversation with you.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively.
• Self-starter, go-getter ability to work independently and driving the team
• Leadership team management skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong financial, analytics and technology orientation