Senior Technical Lead
About Mox
Mox is built by and for the ones who aspire to live life to the fullest – we call them Generation Mox! The name Mox reflects the endless opportunities we can create, - Mobile eXperience; Money eXperience; Money X (multiplier), eXponential growth, eXploration… it’s all up for us to define together.
Why Mox
Mox helps you grow – your money, your world, your possibilities. We equip you with the financial management tools, information and insights you need to make your dreams, big or small, come true. Everything at Mox – from our products, features, to rewards – is designed based on customer research, tailor made for your needs. We care about what customers care about, especially in data security and privacy. Data ethics is core to everyone here at Mox.
Mox rewards you with an array of banking and lifestyle benefits.
Responsibilities
- Hierarchically Responsible for around 10 FTE who, together with the Tech Tribe lead, form the Backend Chapter.
- Sets the technical standards for the team and responsible for developing knowledge and fostering a culture of innovation.
- Collaborates with other Chapter Leads to improve the maturity of processes and practices and to facilitate knowledge sharing across teams.
- Coaching and mentoring of other Chapter members.
- Organizess and facilitates tech talks, lunch and learns, hackathons and other sessions to fulfil the objectives of the Chapter (part of this role includes experimenting with what sessions work best).
- Responsible for ensuring that we “build the thing right” while the Product Owner focuses on “building the right thing.”
- Spends substantial part of their time practicing their craft through POCs and hands-on development.
- Responsible for attracting and retaining engineering talent.
Requirements
- Strong people and communication skills – this role will involve lots of interactions with people from different roles and backgrounds.
- Strong ability to think in terms of systems rather than siloes.
- Understands implications of maintaining a 24/7, business-critical system.
- Broad experience with different technologies and techniques with relevant specialisms (T-shaped).
- Fluent with Kotlin and/or Java, Spring Boot and how the JVM works.
- Strong understanding of concepts surrounding relational and document databases (we use Postgres and DynamoDB).
- Understanding of service-to-service communication using Kafka.
- Experienced a public cloud and container orchestration (we use AWS and Kubernetes).
- Quick learner with an ambitious and results driven personality.
- Ability to negotiate scope to agree to pragmatic deliverables.
To be eligible for internal referrals at Mox Bank, you must be referred by a full time permanent employee of Mox Bank.