Requirements

You have strong, hands-on technical experience in OOP Languages (Java) and modern technology stacks on technologies such as REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and CI/CD pipelines - you will have to complete technical interviews to showcase your knowledge.
You are an expert in schema design, indexing strategies, and query optimization for ACID-compliant transactional data. Experience with partitioning and read-replicas for scaling.
You know how to handle unstructured data at scale, implement sharding, and optimize aggregation pipelines for high-speed reads/writes and flexible schema evolution.
You leverage Redis or Valkey for high-performance distributed caching.

Nice to Haves

You have proven experience in leading and mentoring software engineers.
You enjoy helping others grow and succeed.
You have a strong product and customer mindset and experience building customer-facing products.
You have experience working with and building distributed, high scalability systems and microservices architectures.
You're a great communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
You thrive in a collaborative environment and have experience working effectively with cross-functional peers like designers, product managers, analysts, and data scientists.

Evolution of our Identity domains: Leading the design and evolution of our core Identity and Attributes domains. This involves defining robust API contracts and data schemas, making identity data risk-aware by design, managing attribute acquisition & lifecycle, powering new onboarding & product experiences.
Driving Data Governance: Establishing and enforcing technical standards for Data Lineage, Data Quality, and Auditability within the Identity Risk Platform. You'll ensure the platform meets stringent regulatory and compliance requirements.
Scaling the Team and Culture: Actively managing and mentoring the current engineering team (IC2-IC4), while driving the recruitment strategy to grow the team. This includes defining clear roles, efficient processes, and a high-performance engineering culture.
Strategic Stakeholder Alignment: Serving as the key technical partner to Product, FinCrime, and other Engineering Leads. You will champion the architectural vision for the platform, ensuring technical decisions align with both business agility and security requirements.
Platform Resilience: Ensuring the platform is built for high availability, low latency, and massive scale, managing the operational health (SLAs/SLOs) of a critical, real-time risk service.