Jobs at Ezra

Key responsibilities:

Backend Development

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services using Java Spring Boot (or similar frameworks) and Clojure.
• Adhere to clean code principles and industry best practices in all development efforts.
• Ensure code quality through pair programming, code reviews, and other collaborative development methods.

Event-Driven Architecture

• Implement and maintain event-driven systems using message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, or cloud-native equivalents).
• Work on publish/subscribe patterns and streaming data pipelines to ensure real-time data processing and system responsiveness.
• Optimize event flow for performance and scalability.

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

• Apply TDD principles throughout the software development lifecycle to deliver robust, maintainable solutions.
• Write comprehensive unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests.
• Ensure high test coverage and effectively diagnose, document, and fix bugs.

Architecture and Design

• Collaborate with architects and senior engineers to define microservices architecture and component interaction.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and decision-making processes, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability of solutions.
• Integrate best practices for secure coding, data privacy, and compliance.

Performance Optimization

• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions for performance tuning.
• Conduct profiling, load testing, and implement caching strategies to enhance system response times.
• Work closely with the DevOps team to optimize CI/CD pipelines for quick and reliable deployments.

Collaboration and Leadership

• Mentor junior engineers on best practices, coding standards, and new technologies.
• Collaborate with product managers, QA engineers, and DevOps to deliver features on time and with high quality.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in software development, preferably in a modern backend environment.
• Strong proficiency in Java and proven, hands-on experience developing production-grade applications with Spring Boot.
• Expertise in designing, building, and operating event-driven microservices architectures.
• Proven ability to apply and advocate for Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies.
• Direct experience with message brokers/queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) for inter-service communication.
• Solid knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, caching layers (e.g., Redis), and RESTful API design.

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Key responsibilities:

Architectural Leadership and Mentorship

• Partner with the CTO, the Director of Technology Delivery, and Engineering Managers to define, communicate, and execute the technology strategy and architectural roadmap for the lending and data platforms.
• Lead the architectural design and review process for major platform initiatives.
• Help mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and architectural discipline.
• Define technology standards, development methodologies, and security best practices for the engineering organization.

Technical Excellence and Quality Assurance

• Help instill a culture of technical rigour, passionately advocating for approaches such as Test-Driven Development and secure coding practices.
• Lead complex code and design reviews, setting an uncompromisingly high bar for code quality, maintainability, and security across the platform.
• Identify, pilot, and promote emerging technologies and engineering practices, including cutting edge AI practices.

Technology Roadmapping for Software, Platform & Data

• Drive the architectural evolution towards service-based design, event-driven systems, and a modern, highly scalable data architecture.
• Shape the strategic direction for hosting infrastructure, containerisation, and CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with Platform Engineering.
• Review major technical designs and ensure alignment with the long-term system architecture and business objectives.

System Resilience and Data Governance

• Design and promote architectural patterns for high availability, fault tolerance, and security across the entire technology stack.
• Drive data modeling, data architecture, and the evolution of data store platforms to ensure data integrity, quality, and performance at scale.
• Proactively identify and resolve systemic architectural risk and technical debt.

Delivery Enablement and Performance Optimization

• Consult on the execution of the technical roadmap, providing architectural clarity and hands-on advice to unblock teams and accelerate delivery.
• Contribute directly to production code in critical architectural areas and highly complex situations (e.g., core domain logic, common libraries, performance-sensitivity), staying close to the technical implementation.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional experience in software development, cloud, DevOps, and architectural design, with a minimum of 3 years focused on architecting large-scale, distributed systems.
• Strong demonstrated expertise in multiple programming languages.
• Proven expertise in architectural design and operation of event-driven service-based architectures at large scale.
• Demonstrated ability to define and govern engineering best practices, including TDD and clean code principles.
• Experience with multiple data store management approaches (e.g., relational vs.  NoSQL databases), data modelling, and associated technologies.
• Expert-level knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps practices, containerisation, and public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with a track record of driving complex technical decisions across multiple teams.

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Key responsibilities:

Team Leadership and Mentorship

• 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.

Qualifications and Experience:

• 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.