Software Engineering Team Lead: Banking

4 days ago

Stellenbosch, South Africa Entersekt Full time

**Why Entersekt**

Founded over 11 years ago, with more recent investments from Accel-KKR, Entersekt is a leader in mobile authentication, mobile app security, and payments enablement technology, offering highly scalable products with a track record of success across multiple continents.

Entersekt enables secure digital transactions for leading financial institutions globally. We exist to create a world where everyone can transact digitally without fear or compromise. Protecting the digital transactions of over 67 million active users on our platform, with over 60 registered patents that recognizes innovation in digital security, payments, and user experience. Entersekt offers their customers' frictionless authentication and digital payments experiences. Entersekt has invested in, and created, a diverse product portfolio that positions the company well to execute on its expansion in North America and European markets.
- You like maintaining and deploying code that positively affects the lives of others.
- You have a passion for seeing your team members improve and grow.
- You care a great deal about how systems fit together and want to know the details.
- You like mapping out the design of a system and seeing it come to life.
- While there is an obligation to avoid downtime, if something goes wrong, you want to know why and fix it.
- You have a pragmatic approach to decision-making and can distinguish between what is important and non-essential.
- You enjoy taking initiative.
- You are eager to make a difference at a technical and operational level.
- You are happiest when you produce work of a high standard.

**The Role**

As a global leader in our domain, we set the bar high. We are looking for a technical lead who is nearly fanatical about engineering world-class software systems. You will join a team of talented developers and help fast-track the building of scalable and secure products. This will be in the form of micro-services that run in Kubernetes and are predominantly written in Golang and Java. You will be required to take the technical lead in the team, and guide and mentor junior developers.

**Responsibilities**
- Act as a technical guide, mentor, and anchor for a team of talented, strong-minded developers.
- Design, develop, and maintain distributed back-end services running in production across multiple cloud providers in multiple regions.
- Assist with the modernization of existing systems and building new components as needed.
- Investigate and provide detailed analysis of any production issues and recommend improvements.
- Monitor capacity and scale resources as needed.
- Continually improve infrastructure-as-code deployments and tooling.

**Skills and Experience**
- 6+ years of development experience in a prevalent programming language (Java or Golang is preferred).
- 2+ years of experience as a team lead or senior engineer, working in an agile environment.
- A software/engineering qualification (for example, a computer science or an engineering degree).
- Solid understanding of network protocols typically used on the internet.
- Experience with RESTful APIs, Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC), and Protocol Buffers.
- Understanding of authentication mechanisms such as OpenID Connect (OIDC)/OAuth 2.0.
- Linux experience, specifically in cloud environments.
- Strong database experience (both relational and NoSQL).
- Docker and Kubernetes experience.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud experience would be beneficial.
- Knowledge of cryptography and public key infrastructure (PKI).
- Strong analytical problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of unified modeling language (UML) and architectural design paradigms would be advantageous.

**Personality Attributes**
- Eager to make a difference at a technical and operational level.
- A healthy self-esteem - some bright minds will challenge you regularly.
- Excellent communication skills - you will need to explain your ideas to your team.
- The ability to get things done - we don't like to micromanage, but we expect you to do what is right.
- A tendency to be creative - innovation is of high value at Entersekt.
- A preference to work in a team rather than by yourself.
- An attitude of taking pride in your code and taking ownership.

We place a lot of value on how we treat prospective employees and appreciate the time and effort that goes into job hunting. That is why we aim to keep the hiring process as quick and seamless as possible while ensuring the best possible fit for both you and the company.

Working at Entersekt is truly a dream. You get exposed to cutting-edge technology, colleagues who are leaders in their fields, and an awesome working environment that includes flexible hours, remote work, and plenty of growth opportunities.

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