Software Engineer Lead

About the Company:

Ouro is a global, vertically-integrated financial services and technology company dedicated to the delivery of innovative financial empowerment solutions to consumers worldwide. Ouro’s financial products and services span prepaid, debit, cross-border payments, and loyalty solutions for consumers and enterprise partners.

Ouro's flagship product Netspend provides prepaid and debit account solutions that connect customers with secure, convenient access to global payment networks so they can manage their money and make everyday purchases. With a nationwide U.S. retail network, customers can purchase and reload Netspend products at 130,000 reload points and over 100,000 distributing locations.

Since Ouro's founding in 1999 by industry pioneers Roy and Bertrand Sosa, Ouro products have processed billions of dollars in transaction volume and served millions of customers worldwide. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas with regional offices around the world. Learn more at www.ouro.com.

About the Role

• Works throughout the software development life cycle and performs in a utility capacity to create, design, code, debug, maintain, test, implement and validate applications with a broad understanding of a variety of languages and architectures.

• Analyzing existing applications or formulating logic for new applications, procedures, flowcharting, coding and debugging programs.

• Creates appropriate deliverables and develops application implementation plans throughout the life cycle in a flexible development environment.

• Providing technical direction and engineering leadership for a team of engineers

• Recommends changes in development, maintenance and system standards

• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers.

• Contributing to the design and development of new products and features

• Ensuring that engineering processes are followed.

• Maintaining product quality.

Desired Skills and capability

• Knowledge of Core Java basics/fundamental & Advanced Java Concepts, JVM fundamentals, OOPs, Data Structure Concepts, Collections & Multithreading, Basic Unix fundamentals, Spring framework.

• J2EE, SQL, Application Servers Exposure to Cluster and Fault-tolerance Architecture, Prepaid/Card domain Applications development preferable.

• Experience working with Spring Core Framework,Sprint Integration,Log4J,Restful Webservice .

• Experience working with Active MQ or Kafka technologies for messaging is a plus.

• Excellent Java programming skills.

• Good Exposure to Unix shell scripting is a plus.

• Experience working with Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ Idea and related tools.

• Strong experience in database design and some experience in Oracle,Postgress or SQL

• Good exposure to core design patterns and Java microservice.

• Experience working with Alerts and Monitoring tools like Dynatrace,Splunk,Graffana is a plus.

• Positive attitude and ability to work on multiple items per business needs.

• Quick in learning new problem areas and technology.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business / Management Information Systems or related field

• Typically minimum of 8 years - Professional Experience In Java/J2EE Coding, Designing, Developing And Analyzing Data. Typically has an advanced knowledge and use of two or more opposing front / back end languages / technologies from the following but not limited to; two or more modern programming languages used in the enterprise, experience working with various APIs, external Services, experience with both relational and NoSQL Databases

Preferred Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business / Management Information Systems or related field

• 8+ years professional Experience In Coding, Designing, Developing Java/J2EE applications