Software Team Leader

Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with an ambitious mission to revolutionize the payroll & payments industry. With over $400M raised from multiple tier-one investors, our innovative technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, encompassing everything 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
Lead the adoption of AI-assisted development tools and practices
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

Requirements:

5+ years as a team leader
10+ years of experience in server-side development (Java)
Experience in AI-assisted development
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

Nice to have:

Experience in integrations with 3rd party provides and APIs
Experience in integrating AI-driven flows in software
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