Development Team Leader

eToro; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative firm at the forefront of the fintech and blockchain revolution! As a Senior Software Developer, you'll lead a talented R&D team, fostering collaboration and innovation while developing cutting-edge neo-banking services. This role offers the chance to shape the technical vision of a large-scale platform, ensuring high performance and security. If you have a passion for technology and a strong background in software development, this is your opportunity to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing industry. Embrace the challenge and help drive the future of financial technology!

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software development with 2+ years leading teams.
• Experience in cloud services and microservices architecture is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead an R&D team, focusing on development and quality assurance.
• Collaborate across teams to drive product vision and technical guidelines.

Skills

Software Development

Team Leadership

Problem Solving

Agile Methodologies

Communication Skills

Blockchain Knowledge

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Military Experience in Relevant Unit

Tools

C#

.NET

Kubernetes

Microsoft Azure

MS SQL Server

Job description

eToro is the trading and investing platform that empowers users to invest, share and learn. We were founded in 2007 with the vision of a world where everyone can trade and invest in a simple and transparent way. We have created an investment platform that is built around collaboration and investor education. On our platform, users can view other investors’ portfolios and statistics, and interact with them to exchange ideas, discuss strategies and benefit from shared knowledge. We have over 38 million registered users from 75 countries and our platform is available in 20 languages. We are a fast growing business with over 1,500 employees across 13 offices around the globe, strategically positioned to serve the needs of users. You can find out more about eToro here.

We are looking for a Team Leader to join our team on a full-time basis.

eToro Money group’s mission is to provide a unified neo banking experience that unifies the cryptocurrencies world (Bitcoin, Ethereum, …) with the Fiat world (government issued currencies such as Dollar and Euro). eToro provides its millions of users with a mobile Wallet application that lets them manage all their financial assets through an ultra-modern, slick user experience.

We work with cutting edge, micro-services based technologies, to deliver highly secured, insanely easy to use neo-banking services. We are constantly growing and are excited to share that we are looking for a Software Developer (Senior level) to join our team and become part of the Fintech and blockchain revolution.

What you’ll do

• Overseeing and leading an R&D team of 7 including developers and QA/automation specialists, reporting to group R&D manager.
• Building and developing the team, including coaching and mentoring individual engineers.
• Leading design, development, quality and enablement of multiple functional and technical capabilities within a large scale platform (covering performance, resilience, scalability, etc.). Making ongoing design decisions, and focusing on the product offering and technologies.
• Owning and leading a part of product’s functional and technical vision and roadmap.
• Establishing technical guidelines & procedures, promoting R&D best practices (CI/CD, monitoring, security).
• Initiating and facilitating R&D innovation, incubating and supporting new ideas.
• Closely collaborating with Product Management and Business Owners, DevOps, DBA, and IT. Teaming up across organizational boundaries, and serving as key stakeholder in major decision making processes with the Crypto team.
• Acting as team’s primary technical escalation point.
• Being hands-on: developing features and fixing bugs (20%), running POCs, researching new technologies, conducting code reviews, and assisting teams as needed.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in software development.
• At least 2 years of experience leading R&D teams of 4 or more people.
• Experience in Crypto or Fintech Industry - Big advantage!
• Extensive experience in architecting and developing 24x7, mission-critical services in cloud (preferably Microsoft Azure).
• An experience in distributed systems and microservices architecture - MUST.
• Proficiently use C#, .NET, Kubernetes, Azure cloud.
• Experienced with MS SQL server and DB architecture - MUST.
• Expertise in development best practices, coding principles and architecture (SOLID, Clean Code, Clean Architecture).
• Results-oriented, self-learner, problem solver with 'can do' attitude.
• Advantage - full stack experience (Angular, JS).
• Experience developing in modern Agile methodologies (Scrum, CI/CD, TDD, etc.).
• Self-managed and flexible to changes.
• Strong written and verbal communication; communicating clearly and comprehensively to senior management.
• Strong team player.
• Fluent English.
• Passion about blockchain and experience developing blockchain services is an advantage.
• A degree in CS or a veteran of a relevant army unit.