Job Details

Job Title: Leadership role, Senior Java Back End Engineer, Team Leader

Location: 100% Remote

Job Type: Perm Full-Time

Salary: Depending on Experience, $250K+

Job Description

SherlockTalent is looking for a Lead Engineer-Back End for a rapidly growing fintech team.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Help set the strategic direction and technical architecture roadmap across Consumer Lending
• Build a world-class back-end engineering team by recruiting, onboarding and training new engineers
• Lead back-end engineering team in the technical development of new products
• Foster a culture of ownership, inclusiveness, urgency, and accountability
• Ship exciting new products to benefit consumers in an accelerated timeline
• Partner closely with cross functional stakeholders, including but not limited to Product, Data, Analytics, Marketing and other leaders to build and launch new products
• Use strong analytical, problem solving, and quantitative skills with data-driven approach to enable decision-making
• Identify and break down complex business problems into solvable pieces that can be assigned to engineers and shipped modularly
• Cultivate career and performance growth through engaging, continuous dialogue with direct reports
• Track and monitor product performance against targets
• Adhere to the Company's Compliance Standards
• Ensure a safe and secure work environment
• Other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Knowledge/experience in back-end engineering at fintech (payments), ecommerce or marketplace at a fast-growing company
• Experience architecting and designing secure and highly available systems at scale
• Ability to create and execute against a product engineering roadmap driving significant business and consumer impact
• Ability to work and communicate cross-functionally; collaborate & influence as part of a team
• Collaborative in team environments but also able to act autonomously as a decision-maker
• Analytical curiosity and experience using data to identify issues and determine actions
• Ability to hire/manage to build out a team with a strong team culture
• Ability to take “full ownership” of issues until they are completely resolved, and processes put in place to prevent recurrence.
• Experience delivering products at scale in an agile manner
• Expertise with Java (or JVM-based languages) and related frameworks
• Experience with cloud architectures and tools (AWS preferred)
• Ability to lead multiple teams and managers within a high-growth organization
• 10+ years of hands-on engineering experience
• 4+ years managing and growing back-end engineering teams