R&D Team Leader

Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with a mission to revolutionize the payroll and payments industry. With over $400M raised from top-tier investors, our innovative technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, from hiring and onboarding to managing and paying employees in over 160 countries.

We’re looking for an experienced Team Leader to join our growing R&D.

We use Java to develop our backend and use the latest AWS services for development and production environments.

You will:

• Hire and manage a development full stack agile engineering team
• Develop the tools and infrastructure for our data processes
• Work closely with Papaya's product team to understand and define requirements
• Manage your team tasks and ensure quality and timely execution using agile methodologies
• Keep up-to-date on the latest techniques in management, development, and testing
  
  

• 5+ years as a team leader
• 10+ years of experience in server-side development (Java)
• Experience in devops (or at the very least, full service ownership - creating and deploying services in a microservice environment)
• Experience in development in micro-service-oriented architecture
• Experience in agile development, including continuous integration, continuous deployment, and coding for automated testing
• Experience in core database systems (SQL, NoSQL, Redis, etc.)
• Get-things-done mentality
• A team player
  
  

• Experience in designing and developing data processes
• Experience in deploying and maintaining in an AWS environment
• A passion for improving software quality through self-learning
• Experience in developing financial applications
• Experience in Node JS
• Experience in React.JS