Senior Software Engineer - Team Lead

1. Design, develop, and deliver new features for the core company's platform
2. Collaborate with distributed and multidisciplinary teams
3. Assist in requirements identification and in producing specifications
4. Contribute and adhere to coding standards, best practices, and procedures

Required to have:

1. Knowledge of Functional Programming - ideally Scala and the Typelevel ecosystem
2. Understanding of software architecture and design with the ability to align the overall service architecture
3. Experience with building distributed systems, scalability and high throughput software
4. Experience with maintaining and further developing existing code bases
5. Comfortable with knowledge sharing, working on a team and building relationships
6. Shows interest in the organization’s engineering strategy, product development strategy and how that aligns to the overall business strategy
7. Ability to define task outlines and deliverables
8. Demonstrates a sense of urgency when required
9. Ability to manage some ambiguity and exercises good judgment when needed
10. Ability to give and receive constructive feedback tactfully upstream and downstream
11. Excellent communication skills, ability to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams

Good to have:

1. Experience with Akka Cluster, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka
2. Experience with Event Sourcing and CQRS
3. Understanding of JVM internals and performance optimization
4. Experience with CircleCI, AWS, Fargate, Terraform, Datadog
5. Experience working on a payment platform or other fintech field.