Lead software Engineer

A well funded, rapidly growing fintech firm that still embodies a small start-up culture. You will still be in the early stages and have a hand in maturing and developing the globally used platform. Hiring Boston based Software Engineer with a strong Backend Engineering background and excellent Software Development skills to develop solutions to our client s business needs.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining our investment accounting software. You will be part of an agile development team to develop and deliver solutions, work with product and client success teams to ensure our product success.
Key Responsibilities:

1. Coding and Development: Actively participating in coding and development tasks, often taking on more complex or critical aspects of a project.
2. Technical Leadership: Providing technical leadership to a team of software engineers, guiding them in making design and architecture decisions.
3. Architectural Design: Participating in the architectural design and ensuring they are scalable, high performing, maintainable, and meet the business requirements.
4. Code Reviews: Conducting thorough code reviews to ensure code quality, best practices, and ensure coding standards are followed.
5. Code Maintenance: Overseeing and contributing to the maintenance and enhancement of existing codebase (Java & Python).
6. Problem Solving: Solving complex technical problems and troubleshooting issues that arise during the development process.
7. Quality Assurance: Ensuring that the software is thoroughly tested and that code coverage and other quality standards are met.

Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Python, Cassandra, Elastic Search & REDIS, Azure, AWS
Benefits:
Competitive salary and benefits package.
Opportunities for career growth and advancement in a rapidly evolving financial sector.
A collaborative and innovative work environment.

REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field from leading Universities.
Experience in financial services industry (especially IBOR / ABOR related)
8+ years of experience as a senior s/w engineer, technical lead or principal/lead engineer.
Very strong experience in coding in Java and using Spring Boot framework
Should be well versed in object-oriented programming and microservice architecture/frameworks
Experience with profiling, code analysis and solving code performance issues
Experience with testing automation frameworks and version control systems.
Effective communication and collaboration skills.
Working minimum 3 days a week in the office(128 belt)
Employment authorization in US is required (no Visa sponsorship)
Nice to have Skills:
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
Experience with frameworks such as Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, and S3
Understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.