Technical Lead - Software Engineering

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : Who We Are

Who We Are

FlexPay is the first to market and global leader in failed payment recovery. Our outstanding success is built upon a solid foundation of exceptional culture, adherence to our values, and an innovative AI-driven approach to solving this trillion-dollar problem.

FlexPay helps subscription businesses accelerate revenue and profit growth by recovering failed payments, which is the single largest cause of customer churn.

We’re a maturing, institution-backed Fintech SaaS, solving one of the biggest problems faced by merchants. The veteran management team of serial entrepreneurs is supported by a board filled with industry leaders.

Our ambition is to redefine payments and in doing so become more than just the next great unicorn, but to become a key element of the infrastructure that makes our world’s economy hum.

We’re a dynamic, welcoming company that strives to hire the best and brightest people. If you are looking for a place to invest your passion, then keep reading!

What The Role Looks Like

We are looking for a passionate technical leader to head a team of engineers at FlexPay. The ideal candidate has a strong background in software engineering with some experience as a people leader.

This is a senior level position where the ideal candidate will draw on their previous experience, theoretical and practical technical skills, and soft skills to develop .

This role requires a tactical thinker who will empower the team to create resilient and robust services.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead the architectural design, event storming, and development of domains within the FlexPay platform
• Develop scalable and secure solutions for processing financial transactions
• Collaborate with stream aligned teams to integrate cutting-edge technologies and best practices
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and promoting a culture of innovation and excellence
• Collaborate with team members to create innovative, scalable, fault-tolerant software solutions
• Write, test, and review code ensuring resiliency, robustness, security, compatibility, and stability
• Optimize applications for performance and scalability
• Guide the team to produce clear technical specifications and implementation plans
• Identify and troubleshoot interface software and application issues
• Champion unit and integration testing of the application
• Maintain documentation of the application domain models
• Lead team incident response, including incident detection, containment, recovery, and post-incident analysis - 5 why’s
• Set and adopt best practices as well as emerging technologies.

Who We’re Looking For

• You enjoy being a high-level architect sometimes, and a low-level coder sometimes, and a people manager sometimes
• You want ownership to solve for and lead a team to deliver modern and efficient platform improvements
• You crave frequent releases to production
• You are passionate about developer experience and short feedback loops
• You want to see the impact the team has on end users
• You’re interested in the scale of payment technology engineering challenges
• You are passionate about a culture of curiosity and empathy
• You love challenging yourself to constantly improve, and sharing your knowledge to empower others
• You like to take risks when looking for novel solutions to complex problems. If faced with roadblocks, you continue to reach higher to make greatness happen
• You look beyond the surface to understand root causes so that you can build long-term solutions.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in application development roles
• Have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• Experience owning engineering roadmaps and leading engineering teams
• Excellent Computer Science fundamentals with regards to data structures, algorithms, time complexity, etc.
• Experience building SAAS applications using DDD and TDD.
• Firm understanding of OWASP top 10 and secure development principles
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS) is required
• Proficient knowledge of object-oriented design and SOLID principles.
• Strong understanding of the cloud landscape, data streaming services, and event driven architectures
• Ability to work independently and make use of your time effectively.

Our Technology Stack

• Cloud : Azure
• Databases : SQL Server, CosmosDB, Redis
• Data / Other : Fabric, Azure Data Lake, Blob Storage, SSAS, Data Factory, Synapse, Spark
• Other tiers : C#, TypeScript / JavaScript, Python, NextJS / React, Angular
• Infrastructure : Kubernetes, Docker, AKS, Windows
• Test Frameworks : Playwright, Postman, Selenium
• Devops : Azure Devops, Github Actions

What We Offer

We’re a quickly growing global company committed to building a team filled with diverse cultures, viewpoints, and experiences.

As they say, variety is the spice of life. No matter how large we become, we will always be connected through our shared sense of community and slightly quirky personalities.

Our vibrant culture is filled with talented, creative, deeply curious, high achievers. We believe in and invest in our people because we know they are the secret to our success.

We are happy to extend the following benefits to our employees :

• Unlimited paid time off
• 100% remote work
• Flexible hours
• Comprehensive health benefits package effective from day one
• Support for continuous learning and development

FlexPay is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities.

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