Lead and mentor a distributed engineering team to design, build, maintain, and support post-trade and custody platform solutions. Drive SDLC best practices, code quality, code reviews, CI/CD/DevOps, troubleshooting, and stakeholder collaboration across greenfield and brownfield projects.
We are looking for an experienced and detail-oriented lead software engineer to join our global and dynamic software engineering team. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in delivering solutions as per the roadmap of the products. This involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams to work towards achieving a common goal. As a development lead you will manage/coach/mentor a small but dynamic team of globally distributed senior/junior developers to ensure code quality is maintained to the highest levels, ensure robust code coverage on all solutions developed and strive towards continuous improvement of the software development process(es) in place.
Responsibilities- Work on strategic green field and brown field projects across Post Trade Technology, Custody Platform for Digital Assets and Business as Usual requests.
- Analyze business requirements and work with leads where applicable to produce well thought out design documents.
- Lead and mentor a team with a mix of junior and intermediate engineers who are distributed globally across multiple regions.
- Promote a culture of strong collaboration between teams, share best practice and help clear any potential blockers that you may come across.
- Propose improvements related to the development and support activity.
Communication with Stakeholders, End-users, IT team, Support etc.
- Troubleshoot production system support issues.
- Software maintenance and upgrade.
- Perform code reviews to ensure best coding practices are adhered to and guide/coach junior developers in the team when required.
- Should be able to liaise with different teams to re-solve/get dependencies on time.
- 10+ years of experience working in software development.
- Knowledge and experience of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) activities.
- Java, SQL Server, Postgres, Angular, Spring, Docker.
- Unix shell scripting.
- Messaging (Kafka, JMS, Solace).
- Gitlab source control, CI/CD. DevOps.
- Experience of digital assets and technologies is desirable but not necessary.
- Any experience of Test-Driven Development or Behavior Driven Development is an advantage.
- Cloud technologies, deployment, design and any PostgreSQL/Sybase experience is a plus.
- Financial Services background and knowledge of trade lifecycle is a plus.
- Agile and self-starter.
- Strong organization, prioritization, communication and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to troubleshoot and determine various outcomes from different scenarios.
- Attention to detail.
- Work both as a team lead and independently and contribute ideas in a team structure.
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