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Head of Backend Engineering (Financial services)
- Posted 19 October 2019
- LocationHong Kong
- Job type Permanent
- DisciplineBanking & Insurance, Venture Capital & Private Equity
- ReferenceLW/HK/HOBEFS
Job Description
- Work with a diverse team
- Selection of cuisines offered in the office dining rooms
- Broaden your horizon working with globally renowned brands
A forward thinking FinTech leader is currently looking for a seasoned analytical, results-driven backend software engineer who will be responsible for solving existing problems, evolving the team’s existing architecture, improving operations, integrating the front-end elements built by your team into the application and implementing new features to deliver quality products.
If you have outstanding leadership skills and a great passion for developing beautiful, innovative applications, then you will love this job!
Key Responsibilities
- Understand user requirements and translate them into technical solutions together with the product and design teams
- Recruit, train, develop and manage engineers
- Manage team members from other teams or locations
- Meet architectural objectives
- Write reusable code in a clear and elegant manner using TDD, DDD and CI/CD
- Design systems architecture for projects
- Carry out brainstorm sessions
- Run web and mobile projects through planning, testing and reviewing
- Troubleshoot, debug and maintain after unit testing and automation
- Work with front-end developers for better server-side logic
- Collaborate with engineers and other teams like product management, marketing and hardware to ensure project timelines and requirements are met
- Evaluation and share insights
Key Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience developing, managing support distributed systems
- Minimum 10 year of experience as a backend developer
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Maths, Physics or related fields
- Knowledge in Cloud technology like AWS
- Result-oriented with good learning attitude
- Experience in leading engineers from other teams and locations
- Able to work in a fast-paced Agile environment
- Good understanding of latest web trends
- Hands-on coding and software design
- Proven track record of projects completed
- Passionate in UX and quality
- Acumen for technical reasoning and problem solving
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Teamwork and problem-solving skills
- Excellent analytical and time management skills
- Skills in Kotlin, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, GraphQL, REST APIs and Postgres is a plus
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