Lead Back End Developer

Responsibilities

• Act as a mentor to fellow Engineers, sharing knowledge and contributing to the team's continued growth and improvement.
• Keep current with technology and developments within the financial technology space.
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications.
• Responsible for the evaluation and development of initial engineering process.
• Design, code, and troubleshoot new features, while debugging as necessary.
• Work closely with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic.
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications.
• Manage tools and processes for handling analytics data and metrics that measure and evaluate quality of user experience.
• Work with front-end engineering team to integrate and produce a great and reliable user experience.
• Other duties as needed or required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in computer science or related field (master's degree a strong plus).
• 4+ years of experience working as an Java developer.
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment).
• Strong understanding of algorithms and distributed systems.
• Strong experience with Java, SPringboot
• Desire to work in a growth-stage company and build a strong team culture.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, etc.).
• Able to provision infrastructure components on AWS and document these processes.
• Strong experience working on systems built with AWS components such as Kinesis, databases, Lambda Functions, etc.
• Resourceful.
• Capable of prioritizing work and creating product & sprint schedules.
• Willing to be placed in a banking or financial company.