Job description 

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Lead the design and architecture of enterprise class platforms using industry best practices
• Write clean and concise code that is well-tested, easy to maintain, and consistent with existing patterns in our codebase.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to translate business designs and requirements into functioning applications.
• Developing and integrating REST APIs between back-end systems to support high-volume intranet applications.
• Collaborating with product owners, delivery managers, and other developers to deliver a quality product.
• Taking ownership and responsibility of the work at hand and shepherding code through to production.
• Actively pair-programming with teammates for collective code ownership and mentoring other engineers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Expert-level knowledge of Java and building REST APIs; 
• Keen understanding of application architecture and design in a cloud-native environment
• Experience with Event Base architecture and implementation
• Ability to quickly identify coding and environment issues relating to design, stability, and scalability
• Strong experience with developing code for Relational and NoSQL databases
• Leadership experience in Agile development environment within a heavily matrixed organization
• Automated testing, build automation (Jenkins preferred), and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) across multiple pipelines
• Performance testing experience including root cause analysis and resolution for complicated issues
• Willingness and ability to lead complex cross-team initiatives without direct authority
• Learn new technologies quickly, be able to mentor team members, and leverage new technolgy benefits to enhance existing software
• Strong sense of ownership and a big proponent of DevOps culture.
• 8+ years of Software Development experience, with 2+ yrs of vendor management is a plus (not critical).
• Preferably a BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other subject area.
• Solid programming skills in one of the core programming languages like Java related technolgies, React and UI skills is added advantage
• Strong thought leadership skills, with consistent track record of leading through influencing.
• Showcased and proven experience in core engineering skills in terms of automation of availability, logging, monitoring, B&Cs, alerting etc.
• Strong development and experience with micro services architecture including APIs.
• Deep code analysis and refactoring skills with the goal being proactive platform improvement.
• Ability to perform Root Cause Analysis and resolve short term and long-term fixes very fast.
• Ability to communicate problems/issues across multiple levels of leadership and obtain concurrence on go-forward approach quickly for time-critical issues.
• Ability to drive code review and change review sessions to ensure changes are of acceptable quality.
• Good understanding of Change Management, Problem Management, and Incident Management processes a plus.
• Ability to efficiently interpret Business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions.
• Ability to learn new Technologies and exploit them to their efficient potential

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Credit/Fraud and its underlying platform and its preferred functions is plus
• Shown experience in automating and optimizing development workflows.