React) Bogota - Contractor

FXC Intelligence

9h•Remote

About The Position

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our team, taking technical ownership of a high-impact, customer-facing product, which some of the world's biggest companies, central banks and non-governmental organisations use to build revenue and volume through data and analytics. This is an opportunity to influence technical direction, elevate engineering standards and deliver features that make a meaningful difference to our clients. You will join a technical team of approximately 30 technologists with a key purpose of continuously and reliably collecting large amounts of financial data describing cross-border payments, then processing the data, verifying its quality and serving it to our users so that they can make informed business decisions. A typical team contains around three engineers and a Product Manager. You will be interacting with various stakeholders across the business in addition to your immediate team.

Requirements

Line manage a team, coaching them to reach your level of expertise
Write Golang services and web app backends, and deploy them in Docker containers
Write performant SQL
Build beautiful, componentised application frontends in React/TypeScript
Understand clean code principles and the language idioms of TypeScript and Go, experience reviewing code using these principles and establishing team quality standards
Learn and engage with a new business domain and product
Communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical people
Talk about how you learn and improve your skills

Nice To Haves

Applications with concurrent logic (i.e. goroutines)
Building CI/CD pipelines, especially with GitLab CI
Configuring and using observability tools (e.g. Prometheus and Grafana)
Experience utilising AI to increase productivity and efficiency of work and productionised AI tools
MaterialUI
Using Airflow, Python, Terraform

Responsibilities

Taking responsibility for the quality of the code and architecture delivered by your team
Influencing, coaching and line managing the team engineers
Aligning your team on goals, outcomes and timelines
Collaborating with Product and Technology teams to translate our strategic roadmap into actionable tasks; providing visibility on delivery progress outside your team
Designing, developing, testing, maintaining and enhancing the Golang microservices and frontend applications you're responsible for
Delivering beautiful, performant interfaces, driven by our design system, for our customers
Improving the performance and observability of our services and applications
Improving the quality of life of your team and the business, through automation, process improvement or new technologies