Senior Software Engineer Team Lead

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

• Design, develop, and deliver new features for the company platform
• Collaborate with distributed and multidisciplinary teams
• Assist in requirements identification and in producing specifications
• Contribute and adhere to coding standards, best practices, and procedures

■ Work Location

• Tokyo, Japan

■ Experience and Qualifications 

• Knowledge of Functional Programming - ideally Scala and the Typelevel ecosystem
• Understanding of software architecture and design with the ability to align the overall service architecture
• Experience with building distributed systems, scalability and high throughput software
• Experience with maintaining and further developing existing code bases
• Comfortable with knowledge sharing, working on a team and building relationships
• Shows interest in the organization’s engineering strategy, product development strategy and how that aligns to the overall business strategy
• Ability to define task outlines and deliverables
• Demonstrates a sense of urgency when required
• Ability to manage some ambiguity and exercises good judgment when needed
• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback tactfully upstream and downstream
• Excellent communication skills, ability to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Akka Cluster, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka
• Experience with Event Sourcing and CQRS
• Understanding of JVM internals and performance optimization
• Experience with CircleCI, AWS, Fargate, Terraform, Datadog
• Experience working on a payment platform or other fintech field