Core Team Lead

Job Description:

You will lead and grow a team of talented developers responsible for the bank's core financial logic.

You will work to establish processes, practices and tooling for delivering and maintaining software at a level of QA much above the industry standard.

You will work with all bank stakeholders to perfect the requirements and arrive at simple, elegant solutions to very complex problems, where the cost of failing in production is much higher than usual.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the team in the design and implementation of robust banking software

- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members

- Take a significant hands-on role in the development effort, writing financial logic, testing infrastructure and management tools, mostly in Python

- Work directly with the customer and internal stakeholders to turn vague and occasionally misguided requirements into clear and adequate functional specifications

- Establish culture, practices, processes and tooling that enable delivery and maintenance of software at a very high standard of quality

- Make sure the team is having fun and growing as professionals on the journey

Requirements:

- Experience leading a software team

- Strong leadership and communication skills, ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders

- 5+ years of hands-on software development experience

- Experience working with Python or deep understanding of another dynamic language

- Experience working on a product core / engine or other software infrastructure project - Advantage

- Experience as an architect or system engineer - Advantage

- Experience in a low margin of error environment, e.g. embedded / medical - Advantage

- Experience in a highly regulated field, e.g. fintech / medical - Advantage