Responsibilities :

- Make architectural tradeoffs, design, write and deliver highly scalable, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems.

- Be a role model for engineers and mentor engineers.

- Demonstrate technical leadership and create impact across teams.

- Apply AI for productivity and for features.

- Drive software development while being secure and compliant.

- Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.

- Partner with the product management teams to define and execute the feature roadmap.

- Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design.

- Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies.

- Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution.

- Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight.

- Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies.

- An enormous sense of ownership.

- Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization.

The Ideal Candidate :

Education :

- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems.

Experience :

- Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Golang, Ruby, Python, .Net Core or Java for large scale applications.

- Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment.

- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures.

- Expert in at least 1 of the following languages : Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++.

- Familiarity with cloud computing platforms like AWS or similar.

- Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking.

- Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services.

- Hands-on coder who has built backend services that handle high volume traffic.

- Strong understanding of system performance and scaling.

- Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability.

- Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases.

- Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design.

- Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with good degree of predictability.

- Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks.

- Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems.

- Ability to get stuff done!

Nice to have :

- Familiarity with Golang ecosystem.

- Prior experience with fintech and payments.

- Prior experience with stable coins, blockchain, cryptocurrency technologies.

- Familiarity with front end technologies.

Abilities and Traits :

- Ability to drive agile best practices.

- Ability to drive secure best practices.

- Ability to provide exceptional attention to details of the product.

- Ability to rapidly prototype, build proof of concepts and develop them to production.

- Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions.

- Work well as a team player and help the team members to resolve issues.

- Be committed to quality and be structured in approach.

- Excellent and demonstrable concept formulation, logical and analytical skills.

- Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills.