Integration Technical Lead

APEXX ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

ABOUT APEXX APEXX is a dynamic fintech scale-up founded in 2016 with the goal of creating cutting edge payment technology. Our vision is to be the payment industry's most merchant centric provider. Through our platform a merchant can connect via a simple API connection to the world's payment ecosystem, increasing conversion at lower cost and satisfying their entire payments needs. We excel at bringing transparency, efficiency and competition to the payments market. The team is incredibly committed and enthusiastic about what we are building - top of the class payments solutions and a valuable business. This is infectious and creates a wonderful office atmosphere. We have a supportive, relaxed yet high performing and high trust culture. JOB DESCRIPTION As an Integration technical lead, you will be responsible for the design and development of micro-services based integration components and services. You will be working in a fast-paced start-up environment and must have expertise in the following cutting edge technologies Spring Boot, Java, Redis, Drools, Kubernetes and various AWS services to build on micro-services cloud architecture Requirements * Experience in web development and cloud technologies. * Experience in building resilient applications based on java 8, Spring boot, rest, soap services etc. * Proficient in spring micro service architecture using spring gateway or Netflix stack components like zuul, eureka, ribbon, hystrix etc. * Exposure to AWS Services/concepts like ecs, ecr, api gateway, security groups, autoscale, cloud formation etc. * Expertise in DevOPS tools and frameworks like jenkins, bamboo, CI/CD Pipeline, ansible, chef, containers etc. * Experience in SQL and NoSQL database systems like postgres, mongo or Dynamo dB * Experience of working in a start-up is desirable * BSc/BA in computer science, engineering or relevant field; MSc/MA will be preferred Desired Behaviours * You should want to work in a fast-paced start-up business. * Outstanding communication skills required - primarily the ability to communicate ideas * Excellent operational organisation skills * A team player, willing to be part of and collaborate as part of a wider team. * High level of initiative, a self-starter, not happy with the status quo. Responsibilities: * Design and deliver new components using agile development practices * Work closely with product and engineering team * Lead the delivery of components from inception to postproduction support * Be part of the technical leadership team and help create technology road map * Keep up to date with new technologies * Build solutions that are cloud and micro service complaint for scalability, stability, security. * Be proactive Benefits Apart from the opportunity to work for a tech scale-up, having great responsibility and varied tasks every day, other benefits include the opportunity to join APEXX pension scheme, 600 yearly learning and development budget and access to thousands of perks through Perkbox (discounted tickets, restaurants, etc)