Position: Lead Java Engineer (Fintech)
Company: Skillreveal
Experience required: 3y
Category: Java
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-10-01T00:00:00+03:00

🏢About the Company
The Company is a London-based fintech start-up (seed stage) striving to disrupt the consumer loans market for used cars in the UK. 
The Company is led by an experienced founding team that has raised over £24M in funding from leading VC’s in the past. We value people who want to grow, love to be trusted, enjoy a joke, and don’t bullsh**t. The Company is now looking to build out the team and preparing to launch later this year.

🚀About the Project
We are looking to recruit a talented individual to take responsibility for leading the delivery of our core technology platform. As we are a direct-to-consumer company, it’s important that the person in this role is passionate about delivering a seamless, “wow” experience, and putting the customer’s needs at the forefront.

🛠️Tech Stack
- Java 
- Spring Boot
- AWS 
- Kubernetes
- Terraform

🐝Job Responsibilities
- Leading own gradually expanding engineering team, hands-on engineering
- Owning team processes and quarterly roadmap
- Working very closely with Head of Product to define the scope and identify opportunities
- Working very closely with CTO on system architecture, domain design as well as other key areas of the engineering function
- Working with Head of Quality Assurance (Senior Test Automation Engineer) to ensure quality and reduce risks
- Interacting with stakeholders of the platform and experts from other functions: Finance, Operations, Compliance, Risk, Fraud
- To be attending in the Lviv office (it is not remote)

💻Minimum of Qualifications
- Proven track record and ability to build products/solutions from scratch
- 7+ years into an engineering
- DevOps and infrastructure skills
- Continuous delivery best practices orientation
- Domain-driven design and microservices expertise
- Mobile Apps or any frontend experience would be a plus
- Data analytics & data tooling skills would be a plus
- Prior Fintech or related domain experience would be a plus

👌Soft Skills 
- Ambitions to build an amazing next-level consumer-facing product
- Product-oriented mindset
- Positive, Driven, Proactive
 
🍯What do we offer
- Competitive salary and company options
- Opportunity to have a very significant impact on the next-generation consumer lending product, building many things from scratch with cutting edge tech
- All the benefits of an early-stage joiner: zero overheads, fast decisions, and rapid growth. The environment in which you are part of the decision process and make a meaningful impact
- Senior and friendly team (all engineers co-located in Lviv including CTO)
- Trips to our London office with your fellow teammates, visa sponsorship
- Pretty flexible working hours, although we do expect you to spend most of the time in our Lviv office at this early stage of the company when teamwork and face-to-face interactions matter a lot. Also, there is just a 2h timezone difference between Lviv and London which makes ad hoc communication and timing convenient