Team Lead Software Engineer

About The Job

As a Team Lead, you'll play a pivotal role in the Wealth & Investment Management Applications & APIs Delivery team. This talented team is accountable for the development and maintenance of state‑of‑the‑art user applications and APIs. These tools empower our Home Office and Field Financial Representative, enabling them to provide unparalleled financial services to our clients.

In this role, you will serve as a Team Lead, directly leading and mentoring a team of engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and technical excellence.

• Engage in Collaborative Innovation: Partner with stakeholders to deeply understand business requirements, transforming them into scalable and secure technical solutions.

• Architect Tomorrow's Solutions: Design and architect software solutions with a forward‑thinking mindset, prioritizing performance, scalability, and seamless integration. Your work will be grounded in industry and enterprise best practices.

• Lead from the Front: Dive into development and software engineering tasks while guiding the team towards delivering top‑tier solutions. Your hands‑on leadership will set the bar for excellence.

• Provide technical direction, mentorship, and day‑day guidance to engineers, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and delivery goals.

• Champion Continuous Improvement: Drive initiatives aimed at enhancing efficiency, quality, and overall team performance. Your keen eye for optimization will shape our future success.

• Delivery & Team Ownership – Own team outcomes, including delivery commitments, code quality, and engineering best practices, while building a high‑performing engineering culture.

• Academic Excellence: Hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

• Seasoned Expertise: Boast 6‑8 years of experience in software development and solution architecture.

• Architectural Prowess: Showcase strong expertise in solution architecture, backed by a proven track record of delivering complex, scalable systems.

• Full‑Stack Development: Proficiency in modern software development languages and frameworks, including JavaScript (Node.js, React, Next.js), Type Script, CSS, and Python.

• API and Domain Design: Strong experience in domain‑driven API development, including designing and building scalable, secure, and well‑structured APIs aligned to business domains and enterprise architecture standards.

• Data & Platform Expertise: Experience designing and implementing data‑driven solutions, with hands‑on exposure to modern data platforms such as Databricks. Strong knowledge of relational databases, with a focus on Postgre
  
  SQL.

• Leadership & Communication: Proven ability to lead engineering teams, including mentoring developers, driving technical decisions, and managing delivery, while demonstrating strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross‑functional teams and stakeholders.

• Talent Development & Planning – Develops direct reports' skills based on organizational objectives, evaluates skill gaps, and manages succession planning to develop more capable direct reports, diverse, strong teams and better organizational performance in an equitable and inclusive manner.

• Software Development – Creates and maintains applications, frameworks, and other software components via designing, programming, testing, and bug fixing; writes and maintains source code for all processes in the software development life cycle and facilitates the automation and orchestration of disparate systems. Leverage TDD and BDD methodologies to ensure unit, integration, and end‑to‑end testing with appropriate level of coverage is met.

• Customer Centricity – Applies a customer first mindset to design and continuously improve solutions, systems, processes, and services that support enterprise strategy, impact critical business outcomes, and drive organizational success.

• Cross Functional Partnering & Planning – Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve…