Lead Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Lead end-to-end software design and architecture to create scalable, reliable, and maintainable settlement platforms.
• Define high- and low-level design artifacts including APIs, data models, and system interaction boundaries.
• Drive engineering excellence by enforcing coding standards, modular design, and automated testing within CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead performance engineering initiatives such as benchmarking, load testing, and optimizing latency in distributed systems.
• Enforce secure coding practices to ensure all systems meet enterprise security and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex production issues and lead root cause analysis activities.
• Mentor engineers and conduct rigorous code reviews to improve team capability in design and troubleshooting.
• Partner with stakeholders to shape technical roadmaps and deliver cross-functional initiatives across frontend and backend systems.

What we're looking for

• Advanced experience building microservices in Java with the Spring Boot framework.
• Extensive experience in software development, system design, data structures, algorithms, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven ability to coach teams on full-stack development and end-to-end service ownership.
• Strong hands-on experience with unit, integration, and functional testing frameworks and performance engineering.
• Working knowledge of application security principles including encryption, PKI, Hashing, JWT, OAuth, OIDC, and zero trust.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (preferred); knowledge of the security/access domain (preferred).