Backend Team Lead

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POSITION INFO:

Technical Development Team Lead Requirements:

• 8+ years software engineering experience, of which 3+ with Python and related ecosystems, and 3+ with a statically typed language (Java, C++, C# etc.)
• Demonstrated proficiency in a lead software engineering role
• College or University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• A real passion for quality, clean code and continuous improvement

Core Competency Requirements

• Knowledge of design principles and patterns
• Extensive experience with architectural infrastructure components including database systems, message queuing, caching, networking and security concepts
• Broad familiarity with wider languages, frameworks and approaches used in delivery of high quality software, including a strong understanding of architectural concepts and cloud-based solution design
• Experience with AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, Codebuild + CodeDeploy, Route53, Cloudfront, Kinesis, Athena, Kafka)
• Experience with systems integration and RESTful APIs, including API design
• Demonstrated ability to work across organisational boundaries, to develop requirements and negotiate outcomes with stakeholders
• Ability to translate technical requirements into design through documented processes
• Thoughtful approach to problem identification and solutions
• Effective communication, presentation and written skills
• Demonstrable experience delivering scalable, secure, transactional, high-volume, distributed systems

Preferred Competency Requirements

• Payments industry experience
• Payment gateway integration e.g. PayPal
• Developing automated test suites
• Flask/FastAPI
• PostgreSQL database experience.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails applications
• Experience with the Rust language.
  Experience integrating with operational tooling such as New Relic, StatsD, Elk, Datadog, Prometheus
• Experience with CQRS and event driven systems

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