Java Team Lead

About Company :

Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRTH), is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia USA. Our India office is located in Chandigarh, where our dynamic team builds state of the art, sophisticated Fintech products & solutions.

We are an emerging payments powerhouse that offer a single unified platform for Banking & Payments powering modern commerce. Priority offers a unique family of products which integrate into SMB Payments, B2B Payments and Enterprise Payments to help businesses thrive.

We are on a mission to offer an industry agnostic platform that enables businesses to collect, store and send money using various new age payment methods.

Priority is an employee first organisation and we continually strive to ensure their professional and personal success supported by employee friendly policies and a positive work environment built on mutual respect and professionalism. We offer a dynamic work environment, with continuous growth & learning opportunities. We believe in growing together and our people are the driving force behind our success.

Intro to the Profile :

We are looking for innovative and enthusiastic technologists with passion for writing high quality code to join our Engineering team at Chandigarh.

- You will be part of a dynamic and talented technology global team delivering and supporting Fintech product platform built with latest technology stack to meet the growth needs of the business. As part of the engineering team, you will have the opportunity to work on a leading edge technology solutions platform primarily on web and server side applications.

- You will be working on solutions based on Java/AJAX/Web-Services/Spring/Angular and other UI frameworks and a host of other cutting edge enterprise strength technologies. You will be responsible for independently analyzing problems and providing solutions by leveraging technology that fits the best. Out of box thinking is expected.

- You will be collaborating with the Product, Quality and Operational teams to ensure the designed service is fully operational with streamlined process and procedures for ongoing support and maintenance.

- We are looking for technologists who thrive on efficiency by contributing to the development of standards, processes, and automation requirements that lead to operational excellence.

Responsibilities :

- Strong Development Skills in Java (JDK 1.7 OR 1.8)

- Java 7 Features: Enums, Annotations, Generics, Auto boxing, Loops, Concurrent APIs etc.

- Strong experience with J2EE, Core Java (Serialization, Synchronization, Concurrency, Reflection), Frameworks/ORM tools (Struts/Springs/Hibernate/toplink/JPA/Ibatis etc.), Presentation Layer (JSP/Servlet), Databases, Build and Release, Systems Integration, Agile.

- Strong in software development process, test driven development.

- Strong OO design skills/implementation of design patterns.

- Involves understanding of basic database architecture and design.

- Help management establish and enforce team processes and standards.

- Produce high quality code, perform code reviews and mentor/ lead team of junior engineers

- Experience with Multithreading/Data Structures and Algorithms is highly preferred.

- Experience with AWS or other cloud-based solution is highly preferred.

- Expected to stay updated of new technologies and of changes in technologies that affect back-end and front-end web development.

- Demonstrate effective communication and motivational skills.

- Manage and mentor a team of 3-5 talented junior engineers.

- Good communication skills and ability to work with global teams to define and deliver on projects.

- Self driven and fast learner with high sense of ownership

Skills & Qualifications Required :

- A Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related software engineering discipline, or equivalent

- Ability to learn quickly and independently

- Strong and innovative approach to problem solving and finding solutions

- Excellent communicator (written and verbal, formal and informal)

- Flexible and proactive/self-motivated working style with strong personal ownership of problem resolution

- Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently.

- Ability to prioritize when under pressure

- Business Knowledge on financial services domain experiences would be a plus.