Backend Lead Engineer

About the role: Ezypay is a multi-award winning FinTech company established in 1996, specialising in the provision of subscription and recurring direct debit payments. With offices in Australia, New Zealand, and Malaysia, Ezypay has processed over $3 billion worth of subscription payments in 10 countries across the Asia Pacific region (Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Thailand, and South Korea) and we’re continually expanding. Over the last few years, we have put significant effort into our next generation cloud subscription billing platform. This is a core strategic focus, and we continue to actively develop and grow this platform. The Role: As a Lead Engineer at Ezypay, you have extensive experience in the design and development of distributed, highly transactional systems. You understand and respect quality practices and do everything in your power to ensure NFR’s are met throughout the SDLC. You demand autonomy and offer it to your team, whom you are passionate about mentoring and growing into a high-performing software development powerhouse. You have business acumen, understand the role Engineering and Product takes in evolving Asia Pacific's leading recurring payments and subscription billing, and are ready to lead others in optimizing our product to suit our customers’ needs and drive us towards our aggressive growth targets. You’re a star on the rise who is looking for the opportunity to join a FinTech company in an exciting period of growth, who is ready to step up and become the predominant technical leader of a small but growing engineering team, reporting to the CTO. As a Lead Engineer, you will: Be a leader in our cloud platform, and maintain our best-in-class product, a Java based micro-services architecture hosted on AWS As a Lead Engineer, you will work closely with the Senior Engineering members , Team Leads and the CTO to plan, develop, implement and test software programs that are easy to maintain, modular, well documented and resource efficient. Work with all team members to regularly assess , investigate and remediate technical defects within the Ezypay platform. Perform operational procedures, including ongoing maintenance , on runtime systems, both manual and automated, in accordance with company standards. Provide recommendations for continuous improvement to the product and delivery process Provide mentorship when required to engineers Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or relevant Information technology industry experience. Solid grasp of computer science fundamentals, specifically data structures and algorithms 7+ years industry experience with an in-depth understanding of distributed systems Strong Experience in: Experience in Java and Spring Boot in high-throughput, production-grade systems and Event-Driven Architecture Relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including performance tuning Experience working with any Cloud Services such as AWS, Azure, etc Deep understanding of scalable distributed systems concepts Good understanding of security best practices in the context of web applications Good understanding of internetworking concepts and protocols Good knowledge of a modern software development lifecycle management methodology, such as SCRUM Working knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript Working knowledge of SQL Team player attitude with a willingness to lead when necessary