• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  
• 8+ years of professional experience in software development, with 3+ years in a management or leadership role overseeing a team of 5 or more engineers.
  
• Strong technical background and deep proficiency in Java and Spring Boot.
  
• Proven expertise in architectural design and operation of event-driven microservices architectures at scale.
  
• Demonstrated ability to drive and enforce Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies and clean code principles.
  
• Solid experience with message brokers/queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) and robust data store management (NoSQL/Relational databases, Redis).
  
• Working experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and version control (Git).
  
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with a track record of successfully mentoring and developing engineering talent.
  

• Hands-on experience or architectural oversight in Clojure or other functional programming languages.
  
• Proven experience managing teams working with Docker and Kubernetes in a production environment.
  
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for deploying and scaling high-volume services.
  
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
  
• Knowledge of serverless computing environments.
  

• Help your team deeply understand business, customer, and partner needs, translating them into thoughtful technical and product decisions.
  
• Promote a culture of ownership, accountability, and high standards, enabling your team to move quickly and deliver meaningful results.
  
• Support engineers in their growth and development by conducting regular one-on-ones, performance reviews, and career development discussions.
  
• Drive hiring, onboarding, and training of new engineering talent.
  

Technical Strategy & Architectural Roadmapping

• Partner with senior engineers, solution architects and principal engineers to shape and execute on the technical strategy for your area.
  
• Guide the architectural evolution of services, event-driven systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and data pipelines at scale.
  
• Define technology standards, development methodologies, and security best practices for the team.
  

Engineering Excellence and Quality Assurance

• Contribute to Ezra’s engineering culture, helping shape how we build great software and work together effectively.
  
• Instill Test-Driven Development (TDD), ensuring all features are accompanied by comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
  
• Oversee software design, development, and code review processes and set a high bar for code quality, maintainability, and security.
  
• Implement and foster secure software design and development approaches that minimize the attack surface and associated risk.
  

Delivery Management and Performance Optimization

• Manage the execution of the engineering roadmap, working with product managers to prioritise and scope features.
  
• Monitor system performance and stability, providing guidance to the team on profiling, load testing, and implementing effective caching/performance tuning strategies.
  
• Collaborate with platform engineering to streamline CI/CD pipelines, optimize deployment strategies, and ensure operational excellence.
  

Hands-on Software Development

• Contribute directly to production code, staying close to the work and building knowledge & context through first-hand experience.
  
• Utilise AI-enabled software development practices, acting as a role model for software engineers and demonstrating the state of the possible.