MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - JAVA

$140,000 - $145,000/Yr

Xplor International - St. Louis, MO

Full-time - Mid Level

St. Louis, MO

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About the position

At Xplor, we believe that helping people make the most of each day is the most rewarding way to spend ours. We provide small and medium-sized businesses with cloud-based, intuitive technology solutions that enable them to manage all the hassles of running and growing a business, allowing business owners to focus on what they love. With Xplor Pay, we help businesses get paid quickly and securely without hidden fees. Our platform delivers secure, transparent, fast, and accurate payments, and we are unified by our purpose of helping people succeed. When you join our team, you become part of the personal connection that strengthens the relationship people have with Xplor products. In this role, you will lead a Java team responsible for building and maintaining Xplor's proprietary payment gateway, which is part of a global full-stack payment processing and acquiring platform that supports integrators, partners, and merchants. You will be involved in the entire software development lifecycle, collaborating with Product Management, Site Reliability Engineering, Data Engineering, and other teams to plan, deliver, and support the required functionality across our payment platform, its user interfaces, and APIs. As a leader, you will oversee a team of 3-5 software developers and 1-2 QA engineers, ensuring that your team writes clean, testable, and well-documented code based on standards and best practices. You will also be responsible for managing the on-call rotation for your team, ensuring that production issues can be quickly remediated. Your role will require you to keep up to date with industry trends and technology developments, while also providing people leadership, including goal setting, performance reviews, coaching, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, testable, and well-documented code based on standards and best practices.
• Refactor existing code, write unit tests, and review other team members' code.
• Fix problems and defects by collecting information, finding root causes, and implementing solutions.
• Contribute to performance, diagnostic, and troubleshooting analysis of software.
• Create and maintain documentation for developed APIs.
• Estimate, plan and implement new features in collaboration with product and design.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure production issues can be quickly remediated.
• Oversee a team of 3-5 software developers and 1-2 QA engineers.
• Collaborate with other development teams around the world to build a global, full-stack payment processing platform.
• Provide people leadership to the team, including goal setting and performance reviews, coaching and mentoring, recommending raises and promotions, and overall team performance management.
• Manage the on-call rotation for your team, ensuring that it's fair, effective, and sustainable.
• Manage a flexible work schedule to accommodate meetings that may occur outside normal business hours for the region.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on development using Java and Spring.
• Familiarity with Hibernate and Spring JPA.
• Experience with SOA and micro-services architectures.
• Good command of RESTful and/or RPC approach for building APIs.
• Working knowledge of Angular 6 or greater is a plus.
• Familiarity with major payment schemes (credit card, bank transfer, etc.) and/or point-of-sale equipment is a plus.
• Have a keen eye for improvement in scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Experience applying security technologies such as TLS, SAML, OAuth.
• Experience with distributed, event-driven system architecture.
• Experience working in an Agile methodology.
• Intellectual curiosity with an eagerness to understand the larger system and business context that informs how your systems are expected to behave.
• Ability to apply your knowledge and experience to system design, while aligning with the architectural vision and direction set by upper management.
• Proactive, self-motivated learner with a strong drive to achieve personal goals.
• Hands-on, problem-solving attitude with the ability to generate ideas/solutions and adapt and learn new technologies on the job.
• Professional and articulate communications skills.
• Prior experience leading a small team, where you manage others while also contributing to the work, is strongly preferred.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment balancing adaptability with sustainability.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with cloud-based payment processing platforms.
• Knowledge of financial regulations and compliance standards.

Benefits

• Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council, Global Mentorship Program.
• Access to free mental health support.
• Flexible working arrangement.
• Discretionary bonus eligibility.