Manager, Software Development

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Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a multi-functional team of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with business collaborators and product leaders to define and prioritize the development of new financial technology features and capabilities.
• Supervise the end-to-end delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions that meet both technical and business requirements.
• Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of the platform, ensuring it supports seamless financial experiences and aligns with company goals.
• Ensure alignment between engineering efforts and key business objectives, translating product vision into actionable engineering plans.
• Lead resource allocation, timelines, and project landmarks, ensuring successful delivery within agreed-upon timeframes.
• Continuously assess and improve development processes, methodologies, and tools to enhance team efficiency and product quality.
• Build strong relationships with business partners, providing technical guidance and ensuring their needs are addressed throughout the development cycle.
• Promote a high standard of engineering excellence, ensuring code quality, security, and scalability standard methodologies are followed.
• Leverage a deep understanding of technical integrations with internal platforms and third-party services, ensuring seamless and reliable connectivity while holding integration partners to high standards of performance, security, and reliability.

Work Experience:

• 5+ years proven experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in an engineering management role leading cross-functional teams, preferably in the fintech industry.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering sophisticated technology platforms in fintech, driving innovation in financial products and services.
• Experience in driving technical integrations with internal platforms and third-party systems, ensuring high standards of performance, security, and scalability within the fintech ecosystem.
• Strong background in agile development methodologies, with the ability to prioritize and manage different projects while maintaining a focus on quality and delivery timelines.
• Demonstrated success in collaborating with business customers and product leaders to align engineering efforts with strategic business goals in fintech.
• Expertise in developing and implementing scalable solutions that support new financial products or services, with an emphasis on user-centric design and regulatory compliance in fintech.
• Experience handling and growing high-performance teams, providing coaching, mentorship, and professional development opportunities.
• Strong technical skills in modern software development stacks, cloud technologies, microservices architectures, and fintech-specific tools and platforms.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical partners and executives within the financial services industry.

Key Skills:

• Leadership & Team Management: Proven track record to lead and mentor multi-functional engineering teams, encouraging innovation, collaboration, and high performance.
• Agile Methodologies: Skilled in Scrum, Kanban, or other agile frameworks to manage fast-paced software development cycles and ensure high-quality outcomes.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Strong experience working closely with business partners, product managers, and senior leadership to align engineering work with strategic business objectives.
• Technical Integration: Expertise in integrating internal systems with third-party services, ensuring seamless data flow, security, and scalability.
• Fintech Domain Knowledge: Deep understanding of the fintech landscape, including payment systems, financial transactions, regulatory compliance, and digital banking.
• Architecture & Scalability: Experience in designing and building scalable, secure, and high-performance systems that meet the demands of evolving business needs.
• Problem-Solving & Decision Making: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to navigate sophisticated technical challenges.

Technologies:

• Programming Language(s): Java
• Frameworks: Spring Boot for building microservices and backend applications.
• Cloud Platforms: AWS & Microsoft Azure
• Databases: Snowflake for cloud data warehousing, relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Microservices & APIs: Designing and deploying microservices architectures, RESTful APIs, GraphQL.
• ETL & Data Pipelines: Familiarity with ETL tools and processes for data extraction, transformation, and loading, as well as building and managing data pipelines.
• DevOps & CI/CD: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, and other tools for continuous integration and deployment.
• Security: Solid understanding of authentication, and security best practices for financial and sensitive data.
• Monitoring & Analytics: Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana to ensure platform reliability and performance.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science or in a computer programming related field. (Required)

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidate's actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.

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