APIX Platform is a Fintech company focused on accelerating growth in the financial services industry. The company owns and operates the APIX Platform, an ecosystem that enables collaboration between Financial Institutions, Fintechs, Educational Institutions, and developers. Through technological enablement and digitization, Synfindo helps Financial Institutions accelerate innovation, enhance customer solutions and access new market segments.
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Engineering Lead to join our dynamic team. In this critical role, you will play a pivotal part in shaping the technical direction and leading the development of our cutting-edge fintech platform. You will be responsible for managing and mentoring a team of talented engineers, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software, and driving innovation across all engineering initiatives.
- Lead the engineering strategy and execution for core products from concept to delivery, ensuring that all future development initiatives align with the company’s overarching objectives and available resources.
- Oversee the software development lifecycle for projects following the Agile methodology, establishing requirements, objectives, and timelines for both front-end and back-end development, Quality Assurance testing, and implementation.
- Foster continuous exploration, innovation, and delivery of product features.
- Maintain a balance between a minimum viable product (MVP) approach and scalability, while outlining the roadmap to market.
- Uphold our product and customer service level agreements (SLAs) while collaborating with engineers to adhere to schedules and deliver quality milestones, minimizing outages and incidents.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering, business, go-to-market, and operational teams to facilitate scaling efforts.
- Assess the reliability and performance of all internal systems to recommend potential enhancements.
- Ensure the integration of engineering-based information security requirements throughout the project lifecycle, maintaining compliance with security protocols that include regular vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and application security measures.
- Recruit engineers and manage their training programs.
- Introduce and implement cutting-edge technologies.
- Work in conjunction with external stakeholders to establish new integrations and tools.
- Review and revise policies pertaining to internal systems and equipment.
- Strong hands-on experience in software engineering from conceptualising to deliver. Ideally you should possess at least 7-8 years of prior experience in team leadership capacity, leading and mentoring junior engineers as a subject matter expert/technical lead
- Proficient in developing and managing cloud-native platforms and distributed systems. Fluency in following tech stacks:
- Frontend: Built using React, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Backend: Developed using Go, managed by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) on AWS.
- Database: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Postgres.
- Infrastructure Management: backups of the database, object storage, and Kubernetes.
- configurations are stored in a separate AWS account to ensure data integrity and availability.
- Experienced in collaborating with cross-functional leaders and teams to build and oversee complex, large-scale projects
- Thrives in a start-up environment where rapid change is the norm, and you possess the freedom along with responsibility and accountability for outcomes
- Focused on fostering positive transformations in working environments
- Skilled at influencing and managing executive stakeholders
- Able to cultivate an inclusive culture where everyone feels a sense of belonging
- Experienced in building, leading, and collaborating with distributed teams
