Software Engineering Manager at One Finance & Investment Limited (OneFi)

Job Summary

• Your core responsibility will be to deliver highly available & scalable web applications that will help the company achieve its short & long-term goals.
• As a hands-on, smart, dynamic Software Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for helping us to build a top-quality engineering team responsible for the scalable services that power our entire application suite.

Key Responsibilities

• Hands on engineering manager willing to undertake coding as well as management duties.
• Interact with product owners, partners and business stakeholders to understand and develop requirements. Help drive agile project planning process.
• Demonstrate and develop technical leadership, mentor engineers and help develop best practices, hire the best.
• Manage the operational health of our platform.
• Help develop a DevOps culture. Actively work on creating a learning organisation through agile documentation, operational run-books & guides

Requirements
The ideal candidates must meet the following criteria:

• Exceptional leadership skills.
• Able to lead through uncertainty and ambiguity.
• Must have been building robust, maintainable, scalable web-based applications for at least 10 years with 5 years in a leadership position.
• Driven to constantly improve
• Hands on experience with enterprise scale software running significant transactional volumes with "zero" downtime.
• Must have experience building server-side applications using JavaScript (Node.js) and Java (Spring Framework).
• Good working knowledge of Relational Database Systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle) and/or NoSQL systems (MongoDB, Elastic, Cassandra).
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field
• Experience with managing and deploying applications on AWS (or equivalent).
• Ability to work in the Linux environment.
• Sense of humour

The following are optional but will enhance your chances of being considered:

• Understanding of basic financial and accounting concepts
• Ability to write JavaScript in TypeScript and/or ES6.
• Knowledge of micro services (or SOA), Docker, and/or distributed systems.
• Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and/or other automated testing skills.
• Experience with AngularJS