Backend Team Leader

About Proxymity

Proxymity is a market leading digital investor communications platform focused on providing regulatory compliant products, focused initially on Proxy Voting and Shareholder Disclosure services. Founded in London and spun out of Citi, from the very beginning our mission focused on benefitting the whole capital markets ecosystem, rather than just one part or one player within it. This ethos is endorsed by investment from global consortium of some the industry’s most influential financial institutions.

About Us - Proxymity

Proxymity’s service offering is now a Global one, matching the needs of our custodian and broker community respectively. This is reflected by a fast-growing client base who have long desired an improved service by a trusted vendor. As a result, we are a fast-growth company and have already gone from 10 - 200+ employees in the last four years with a global footprint in London, New York, Tel-Aviv, Melbourne.

Role Description:

Take part of highly skilled and enthusiastic agile team, determined to develop new solutions that have the potential to transform the future of financial services around the globe.

As a Backend developer you will design, implement, and own server-components and micro-services in the cloud environment.

You will be collaborating with a global tech and product teams and interfacing with other groups around the globe.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the backend SW development team within the whole product, hire and mentor new team members to cope with the growing business and technological challenges for server components and micro-services written in Java-Spring.
• Be accountable for quality, performance, scalability, and security of the different system components.
• Gather business requirements from product team, understand the needs and how it can be implemented considering existing logic.
• Guide, review, and approve new features design, implementation, design & architecture activities for the product roadmap
• Adhere to highest development standards – including clean code methodologies, code reviews, unit tests and integration tests.
• Research and experiment with new technologies and advocate proper adoption.

Requirements

• 5+ years' experience with SaaS application, backend development using Java and Spring framework.
• 2+ years' experience in team leadership, leading a team of at least 3 people.
• experience communicating and collaborating with other departments e.g. product, operations, etc.
• Experience with data modelling, RDBMS, SQL and ORMs
• Experience with AWS services and ecosystem.
• Proven practical experience with micro-service architecture.
• Experience with Kafka / other message broker
• Passionate about technology, ability to research new technology, determine best practices and educate other developers.
• Ability to work independently and proactively come up with innovative solutions.

Benefits

• Headspace subscription
• Birthday off in addition to annual leave
• Access to Absorb Learning
• Improved family-friendly policies
• Work your way
• Choose your tech
• 2 duvet days a year
• 1 volunteer day a year
• 4-week sabbatical after 4 years at Proxymity
• Workation. Our Workation policy means you can work anywhere in the world for up to 45 days per calendar year.
• Companywide parties twice a year.
• Team drinks.
• A company wins programme.
• Companywide panels on variety of subjects like diversity and inclusion, wellbeing etc.
• A dog-friendly office.
• Complementary snacks and drinks in the office.

To assist us with evolving our DEI efforts and ensuring our process is as inclusive as possible, we will be sending out a brief diversity and inclusion survey for you to complete if you choose to apply for this position. This will be completely anonymous and is in no way tied to your application. If you could please take a few minutes out of your day to complete this that would be much appreciated.