Lead Backend Engineer

FinAccel · Indonesia · posted today ago

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About this role

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 and removing unnecessary/outdated processes/barriers.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.

At least 6 years of hands-on experience in developing, testing, and deploying large-scale applications in any language or stack.
At least 1 year 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.