Technical Lead

OTT Pay Inc. "(OTT Pay)" is a fully funded established FINTECH focused on delivering simplified financial payment products. With a strategic emphasis on both Acquiring and Issuing businesses, we are developing a mobile-first platform that offers straightforward banking services, loyalty solutions, and innovative products including credit cards, accounts, gift cards, mortgage, and more. We are heavily driven by ambition, results, and forward-thinking. At OTT Pay, you will find numerous opportunities to learn and grow, alongside a cohort of talented individuals from diverse backgrounds and industries. Working collaboratively in an innovative environment, you will be encouraged to excel and make a meaningful impact. This presents a unique opportunity to join an organization committed to transforming financial solutions.

We are looking for a Technical Lead to support our business growth in Toronto. The Technical will be reporting to the Director of IT. The Technical Lead will work closely with the senior leadership and product owners to enable technology development from start of design to fully done as finished products. This is a full-time, permanent position working out of our North York Head Office.

What’s in it for you:

• Competitive Salary based on experience
• Extended Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Vacation Leave
• Centrally located modern and spacious offices close to Eglinton and Leslie
• Free use of onsite Gym and Sports Facilities, and regular Company Social Events
• Learning and Professional Development Support
• A chance to work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive and high performing team.
• Community involvement through the annual Terry Fox Run
• Tremendous opportunities for Growth and Development

How you will contribute:

• Lead in designing, building, and maintaining software systems focused on OTT's credit card services.
• Apply principles of software engineering to create robust and efficient solutions.
• Manage the software development team responsible for one of OTT's products.
• Provide technical leadership in the software development including analysing the product, identifying errors, troubleshooting, and ensuring blockers in development are resolved.
• Collaborate with UI/UX developers to implement product user experiences on web and mobile applications.
• Support and contribute to communication and change management activities to ensure smooth project transitions.
• Ensure practices and work of the team are in adherence to OTT agile methodologies.
• Hire, motivate, and develop an engaged group of software engineers.

What you bring to the table:

• Minimum of 10 years' experience in front and back-end development
• Experience hiring and managing a team of software engineers.
• At least 5 years of hands-on Java development experience of Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA or similar is preferred.
• At least 2+ years of front-end development experience with Angular, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, is a must.
• Ability to lead research into solving technical problems.
• Ability to manage team members who have diverse backgrounds and skills.
• Experience in secure mobile application development.
• Knowledge of frameworks/ technologies such as Spring Framework (Boot, Cloud), Hibernate/JPA, MQ Message (RabbitMQ/KafkaMQ), Redis, RESTful and JUnit/TestNG
• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL - MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL and MongoDB
• Experience with version control tools (Git, SVN), CI/CD and DevOps
• Sound knowledge and experience with the quality assurance including unit test development.
• Experience with simulator tools such as Postman or JMeter
• Experience with Linux, Apache, Docker, Composer or K8S
• Has experience in multi-threading and concurrency.
• Has experience in code reviews and business/technical discussions.
• Able to design and complete complex software enhancements proficiently with a high level of quality.
• Advanced to expert knowledge of project management methodology and agile practices.
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
• Strong understanding of key metrics and analytics, with the ability to translate them into systematic reporting and targeted strategies and programs.
• Proven ability to contribute to improving quality and optimizing processes, with a focus on accuracy and thoroughness.
• Collaborative way of working, including involving colleagues in planning, decision-making, facilitating, and process improvement.
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced international environment with opportunities for innovation and action.
• Experience working in a lean, nimble, and agile environment.

Visit our website at https://ottpay.com/.

OTT Financial Group is committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment where all employees feel valued and respected, and where every employee can realize their potential. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation, if required, and will work with you to meet your needs. We appreciate all applicants for their interest; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.