Engineering Lead, Backend

Get to know our Team:

The payments team is responsible for building safe, secure and high throughput payments primitives. We own a range of platform primitive components such as, but not limited to, Wallet, Reconciliation Engine and API Gateway. We take pride in building distributed systems that have the real impact on the lives of millions of users in our endeavour to out-serve the underserved population. Terms such as Idempotency, CAP theorem, Distributed Consensus are not just theoretical terms for us but have a real bearing on the systems we build.

Get to know the Role:

Deep, hands-on programming and technical design skills with demonstrated willingness and capability to learn new technologies quickly

• 10+ years software development management experience, preferably in delivering B2C products/services/content
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and deliver complex, successful web services and/or customer experiences efficiently and with quality
• Proven team leadership, interpersonal skills, and ability to get things done
• Ability to clearly communicate high level strategy and technical details effectively across disciplines, locations, and organizations, including to senior leadership.
• Strong bias for action; ability to juggle multiple priorities and build a sense of urgency in a dynamic environment.
• Burning desire to build magical experiences for our customers

The day-to-day activities:

• Collaborate with the product, business, and program management team to be on top of your deliverable.

• Participate in technical and product review meetings.

• Timely delivery of high quality, maintainable and operationally excellent code.

• Timely closure of all the assigned code review and design reviews.

• Closely work with SRE and DevOps team to setup hardware and microservices infrastructure.

The must haves:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or other related Degrees
• Significant experience as a successful software development leader in large scale, highly available Internet and mobile applications
• History of effectively working with and growing geo-distributed partner teams
• Experience developing high-volume internationalized web and app experiences
• Able to attract, develop, and keep high quality multi-disciplinary teams
• Proven ability to make smart feature versus time-to-market trade-offs; experience using data and metrics to back up assertions of business value.