Software Engineering Team Lead

Ebury is a hyper-growth FinTech firm, named in 2021 as one of the top FinTech's to work for by Glassdoor and AltFi. We offer a range of products including FX risk management, trade finance, currency accounts, international payments and API integration.

**Role**

As a team leads you will form, grow and evolve a team of highly motivated individuals that focus on accountability and continuous improvement.

**Your background**:

- You have extensive experience in delivering complex software systems. Having experience in financial systems is desirable, but most important is that you know how to motivate and set-up high-performance teams - people management.
- Agility is important to us, we expect you to guide your team through changes in requirements, work with product owners to plan what to work on.
- You care deeply about user experiences and own (define, implement, improve) appropriate metrics to measure them. You make decisions based on data and facts.
- Quality is important to us, we expect your team's code to be testable and well-covered with unit and integration tests. We use CI Jenkins pipelines and terraform for the deployment of services and infrastructure.
- Ebury Tech is a multi-cultural and distributed team, you will need great English communication skills and experience working in a global environment to be successful.
- You will enjoy developing and supporting less experienced engineers and interns into becoming key members of the Ebury technology team.

**The project**

You will contribute to the development of a transactional banking platform, focusing on receiving and issuing payments in more than 140 currencies.

Our platform is a single platform (20+ Services) with 3 distinct channels for users to access our core functionality:

- Online banking portal built with Vue.js and
- a Rest API for 3rd party integrations.

Using tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, Sentry, Prometheus, and ELK you and your team will build and run services in a number of environments and will be responsible for defining and achieving Service Level Objectives for your code.

Work with cross-functional product and technology teams across the company to build new features at large and multi-region scales, which will run smoothly in Docker containers on AWS ECS and Kubernetes.

**Role Responsibilities**
- Work closely with the Product to have clear implementation plans for product roadmaps
- Help your engineers grow their skills and experience.
- Run agile project management processes.
- Conduct code reviews, and make technical contributions to product architecture as well as getting involved in solving bugs and delivering small features.
- Generate and implement process improvements.
- Hold regular 1:1's with all members of your team, and participate in cross-team, skip-level 1:1's.
- Give regular and clear feedback around an individual's performance.
- Foster technical decision-making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary.
- Engage in our incident management process, leading both responses and retrospectives.
- Draft and review quarterly Engineering KPIs for your team.
- Improve product quality, security, and performance.

**Requirements**:

- 5 or more years of experience in software development
- 2 or more years experience in a leadership role with current backend technologies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a good level of English

**Nice-to-have requirements**
- Experience working in the financial sector.
- 2 or more years experience of working with global team members in a distributed environment.
- Open source SQL databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
- Familiarity with distributed tools e.g., Jira, Bitbucket, Slack, GSuite.
- Knowledge of Agile Development tools, techniques and principles (SCRUM).
- Familiar with AWS infrastructure and container orchestration.

**What We Offer**:
**You will be part of a remote-first distributed technology team that cares deeply about people, culture and best practices, and believes in agile principles. Take a look here and see what our team say about us**:

- You'll have continuous professional growth thanks to our career progression framework with regular reviews.
- You'll improve your personal development through training and certification.
- You'll contribute to our technical design through our open and collaborative Request For Comments (RFC) process.
- We are Open Source friendly, following Open Source principles in our internal projects and encouraging contributions to external projects.
- An in-depth onboarding process to make you feel part of the team from your first day.
- If you wish to improve your English skills, you'll be able to take lessons in the school of your choice.

Due to our **remote-first organization** and our remote-focused onboarding system, you will feel like a crucial part of the team from day one. Curious about what working remotely is like at Ebury? Take a look and see what our team say about us

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