Lead Backend Engineer (SDE 4M), Kredivo Group, ID, US

About the Job:

• Lead a software team to build features and solutions that support business priorities across distributed teams in a global environment.
• Work closely with your manager to align the priorities of your team with the priorities of the entire organization.
• Apply engineering best practices to ensure high-quality outcomes, and work with your counterparts from product and business teams to continuously innovate for our customers.
• Focus on increasing productivity of your team by building processes around testing, code review, coding conventions, etc. and removing unnecessary/outdated processes/barriers.
• Define quantifiable measurements to continuously evaluate the team productivity and outcome quality. Manage the performance of your team, and constantly look for opportunities to optimize and take action with a carefully thought-through plan.
• Coach team members to help them become better professionals and engineers.
• Demonstrate ownership of multiple functional workflows. Own the technical designs, estimation, development and delivery of high-complexity projects by having the most suitable tech stack, infrastructure, security, performance, monitoring, alerting, etc.
• Hire, coach, and build a strong bench of talented engineers.

About you:

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in developing, testing, and deploying large-scale applications in any language or stack.
• At least 2 years of experience in leading a team of engineers.
• Extensive experience in general-purpose programming languages, but willing to work in golang or python.
• Proficient in HTTP, Web Services, OAuth, and Restful APIs.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and computer science fundamentals.
• Strong data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Self-driven with a passion for learning new things quickly, solving challenging problems, and the drive to get better steadily without the need for constant/significant feedback.
• Excellent communication (written and spoken) and analytical skills with attention to details.
• Strong individual contributor, trusted problem solver and engages proactively in the team level initiatives to bring positive change from their involvement.
• Strong understanding of clean architecture, S.O.L.I.D principles and event-driven architecture. Experience with message broker services like SQS, Kafka, etc.
• Good experience with cloud-based systems and infrastructure services like AWS, GCP, etc.

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