Lead Backend Engineer

About Finfare

Finfare is dedicated to empowering SMBs, by providing the ultimate expense management solution for growing businesses seeking to streamline their financial operations and maximize cash back rewards. Finfare offers easy expense tracking, personalized spend controls, seamless accounting integration, powerful analytics, and reliable charge card services. Our cardholders can tap into our vast network of reward program publishers and card-linked merchant offers, ensuring even bigger cash back rewards for their business.

We are always working on redefining the boundaries of digital financial services and aim to stay one step ahead in the ever-evolving fintech landscape.

About the Role

The Finfare engineering team is composed of the best and brightest software developers, mobile developers, and data engineers. Our engineers are responsible for developing the infrastructure behind our intelligent financial payment system products to support current and future product lines. Teams are highly collaborative across all areas of the organization, autonomous in their ability to perform work, and highly impactful towards the success of the business.

As the Lead Backend Engineer, you will play a key leadership role in building our products and services. This position will work directly with stakeholders and engineering teams to research and build new tools and features. If you are passionate about problem-solving, leading teams, have hands-on experience in software development and deep knowledge of object-oriented programming, we'd like you to be a part of our story!

Responsibilities

Lead a team of engineers-provide support, feedback and guidance. Foster a culture of continuous learning and development

Understands and practices agile software development and management

Proactive in identifying and clearing roadblocks for the team

Ensures that any external dependencies are resolved in time or escalated

Design, implement, and maintain our cloud service APIs and database to power Finfare platform

Collaborate with and lead frontend and mobile app engineers and other team members to ensure proper designs and integration

Given FinFare is a startup, pushes the team to deliver on aggressive timelines.

Polyglot. Finfare has numerous products written in a few languages. Leads should be able to pick up and guide engineers in different tech stacks

Partners effectively with product to manage scope and deliverables for the technical side of the product roadmap

Sets clear expectations for team members; solicits, synthesizes and delivers feedback

Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting

Participate in design and code reviews

Perform validation and verification testing

Support operation in production

Other duties as assigned

Qualifications and Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other related fields

Experience developing APIs and performing integrations with Java and Spring Boot

Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring a team of engineers with diverse technical skill sets, including task assignment, performance management, and career development

Experience developing RESTful APIs with Python

Experience with Microservices

Experience in Agile development

In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) to analyze and write new SQL queries along with object-relational mapping (ORM)

Excellent software design and architecture skills

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to work independently

Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude

Excellent organizational and leadership skills

Experience with AWS and writing server-less functions in Lambda

Knowledge of Node.js and JavaScript is a plus

Knowledge of Docker is a plus

Compensation

The salary range for this position is $180K - 210K+ (Depending on experience and level assessed post interviews)

Benefits at Finfare

Competitive health, vision, and dental benefits (covering 100% premium for employee and all dependent(s))

Unlimited PTO

401K (with employer matching)

Catered lunches 3x a week

Hybrid or on-site, depending on the role.

Work sponsorship (if applicable)

Parental leave

Health and wellness reimbursement

Employee stock purchase plan (if applicable)

Other employee perks

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Finfare is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, genetic information or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.