Software Architect / Team Lead

Software Architect / Lead Engineer

Description : As a software architect and chief engineer you will join a team working on interesting open source problems.

Collaborating with team members as a visionary and leader you will be a goal-getter seeking to continue the tremendous growth of our product line.

You keep it casual and love a good whiteboard. Having fun while creating in a team centric environment.

Company : We have reinvented and created a payments engine that offers real-time payments, revenue and engagement to our customers.

Our software is like nothing else available in the marketplace today. We are experiencing exponential growth and maintain close to 80% of the market.

Now, we’re expanding the team to support our ambitions of further disrupting the payments space.

• Salary and Benefits : We offer very competitive salaries and benefits, including unlimited PTO and free parking
• Tools : We provide the tools you need to do your best work, including sit / stand desks
• Owner’s Club : You’ll be granted ownership shares (stock options) so you have real skin in the game
• Snacks and Drinks : We have a diverse selection of snacks and drinks if we don’t have something you’d like, we’ll get it for you
• Work / Life we have an on-site workout room, and get together for activities like happy hour and hiking once a month
• Fun Environment : We’re a close-knit group that likes to make work fun we have an open office with great views, fantastic brews and even nerf gun battles every now and then

Role : Key factors for this position are not only technical aptitude, but also being a problem solver, continuous learner, and great collaborator.

The ideal candidate will have experienced working in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements : 7+ years of development experience

• 3+ years as a team lead or similar position
• Code is open source (Java) but if you have architectural chops .Net will be considered
• Experience designing and implementing high scale, highly reliable software systems
• Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures
• Ability to maintain awareness and advise multiple teams with different tech stacks
• Ability to create high-level architectural specifications, frameworks and initial proofs of concept, as well as help teams execute against the plan
• Experience with coding and maintaining the code base in at least one project
• Experience with designing new software, making large revisions, and integrating with client systems
• Ability to collaborate with the development team to gain feedback and evaluate feasibility of various solutions
• Ability to switch context quickly to explain technologies to different audiences quickly and concisely

Recommended but not required :

• Experience with billion-dollar payment systems
• Experience with scaling a hypergrowth company
• Previous experience working with consultants (internally and externally) with positive outcomes.

Experience with AWS, Google Cloud and Azure specific products