Apex Fintech Solutions is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead engineering teams and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and managers to deliver cutting edge projects that shape the future of our industry. This role will be at the forefront of Agile development initiatives, ensuring solutions meet and exceed stakeholder expectations, and will involve strategic planning, risk management, and hands-on design, architecture, and execution of software development initiatives.
Requirements
- Expertise in fault-tolerant system design, high-availability services, and handling high-throughput, real-time data processing
- Proficiency in cloud-based (GCP) backend systems and micro-service architecture to ensure scalability and reliability
- Solid understanding of DevOps principles with hands-on experience in CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Understanding of security best practices for APIs, backend systems, and infrastructure
- Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills to navigate complexities and deliver effective solutions
- Familiarity with financial systems, trading and accounting concepts, and compliance within regulated environments to build high-quality and secure solutions highly desired
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage engineering initiatives from inception to completion, ensuring alignment with business goals and timelines
- Collaborate with stakeholders such as product managers and business users to define scope, objectives and deliverables while managing your engineering team throughout the product life cycle
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, retrospectives, Planning and promoting team continuous improvement
- Identify and mitigate risks, proactively addressing issues to avoid delays
- Serve as the primary point of contact for project and engineering updates and reporting, ensure transparency and effective communication with stakeholders
- Coordinate with various funnels to ensure resource availability and prioritization of work
- Hands-on design, architecture and execution of software development initiatives
Other
- 10+ years pr prior experience in software development
- 5+ years leading engineering teams
- Proven expertise in Agile Development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc) and project management tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence)
- Strong leadership abilities with experience managing cross functional teams
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining attention to details
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- This job operates in a hybrid, office environment 3 days per week
