Backend Engineering Manager

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Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in payments or consumer lending (e.g., payment processing, acquiring, issuing, payment technology provider, etc.) is required.
• 3+ years of experience building and leading a team.
• Excellent foundation in computer science, algorithms, and RESTful API design.
• Expert level skills in designing RESTful APIs and Python.
• Expert level skills in node.js.
• Experience working with both structured and unstructured data.
• Expert level skills in data security and secure coding.
• Experience with core AWS technologies.
• Experience with Flutter, React, Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Git, MongoDB, and RESTful API creation is helpful in succeeding quickly in this role.
• Experience in writing highly secure web applications.
• Must be permanently based and authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities:

• Communicate regularly with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, and other developers regarding progress on the long-term technology roadmap.
• Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs.
• Develop and oversee Back-End builds and schedule.
• Produce quality code, raising the bar for team performance and speed.
• Recommend systems solutions by comparing the advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives.
• Write code and tests, build prototypes, resolve issues, and profile and analyze bottlenecks.
• Design robust APIs to support mobile and web clients.
• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems in the cloud.
• Optimize web/mobile applications for performance and scalability.
• Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing.