As a Lead Software Engineer, you are a product-minded problem solver and a passionate technologists solving problems. You are a practical decision-maker that balances long-term and short-term concerns. You have a strong background or interest in building products or systems. You are comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces and enjoy learning about and working with new technologies & systems. You can adequately evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space, and time and demonstrate a strong sense of personal ownership and integrity. You have an honest, direct, and empathetic approach to relationships and personal growth and interested in collaborating both within the engineering team and across departments. Moreover you want to change the world for the better.

This role will be with Open Invest Team under Asset & Wealth management Business Unit 

Job Responsibilities:

• Help build, maintain and manage our backend services, APIs, frameworks, and platform
• Integrate our backend application into our consumer-facing frontend applications
• Write high quality, effective, scalable code maintaining best practices
• Contribute to observability and monitoring tools to detect issues, measure performance and produce telemetry for developers.
• Participate in code reviews, rotating on-call, architecture reviews, and project planning
• Work on release management, rollout & deployment of services
• Work cross-functionally with other stakeholders like the product, operations, and sales teams, to design and build services to support business goals and Lead engineering projects and mentor other junior engineers

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 5+ years engineering experience, ideally building web-based applications and  having extensive experience with Python & related frameworks, libraries, patterns and familiarity with front-end technologies like React.
• Proven expertise in thinking through software architecture & infrastructure decisions
• Knowledge and proficiency in using object-relational mapping (ORM) and relational databases
• Experience designing and building robust, scalable, secure systems and technology solutions.
• Proven understanding of microservices-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Comfortable working in an honest and transparent culture; providing and receiving meaningful and intentional feedback

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience or interest in financial services or asset management.
• Expertise in data engineering tooling and platforms. Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS services, containers) and working in a microservice architecture.
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills and experience with continuous delivery and continuous integration
• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP, scrum)