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Engineering Leader

Akoya LLC

Engineering Leader

Boston, MA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Meet the future

    Akoya is an API-based network backed by major financial institutions that creates a safer and more transparent way for people to safely send their personal financial data to third-party financial apps. If you are inspired and fascinated by innovative technology that solves complex, real-world problems, then join us as we transform how financial data is accessed and shared. Akoya offers a highly collaborative, fast-paced, and fun working environment and our team is comprised of diverse, creative, and driven professionals with expertise in the banking, securities, fintech, and data aggregation industries. We are an equal opportunity employer. Come join us and be part of this exciting journey – check out www.akoya.com for more information!

    The Role

    We are looking for a hands-on technology leader to join our growing Engineering organization. 

    Our ideal candidate has led technical teams or built large-scale SaaS solutions in fast growing companies, has an extreme attention to detail, concisely communicates complex concepts, and is equally excited about reliability and financial correctness as well as beautiful product UX and API design. In this role, you will be:

    • Lead an engineering team to develop and deliver the product roadmap and engineering excellence objectives in a fast-paced agile development environment.
    • Work across the entire technology stack, build APIs for high scale, high availability data pipelines dealing with sensitive customer financial data.
    • Effectively communicate project status, manage project risk, refine processes and drive continuous improvement.
    • Support, coach, and grow engineering team, foster a positive team culture of collaboration, execution, quality and learning. 
    • Providing sought after opinion internally and externally about the product line, and engineering excellence.
    • Drive continuous improvement of test automation.
    • This role will be 50% hands-on coding, 25% architecture/solution design, and 25% project & people management.

     

    Required Experience/Skills

    • 10+ years software development experience building and testing applications following secure coding practices
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
    • Experience with leading software development team in a fast-paced agile environment, working through all phases of the software development
    • Ability to build high-performing team, align stakeholders and multi-functional teams
    • Strong experience in developing and deploying cloud-based applications hosted on AWS, with focus on micro services, REST APIs, CI/CD and test automation
    • Proficiency in Golang and/or Java development, and Spring / Spring Boot frameworks
    • Understanding of container and serverless architectures (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
    • Experience building web applications using client-side frameworks such as React and Node
    • Ability to quickly respond to changes in business scenarios, projects and resources - adapting accordingly and positively
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

    Open to Remote Work

    Akoya is an equal opportunity employer.