EC1 Partners · 22 hours ago
Software Engineering Team Lead
EC1 Partners is partnering with a high-growth financial technology firm building mission-critical infrastructure for global capital markets. They are seeking an Engineering Team Lead who can combine deep backend engineering expertise with people leadership while actively designing and building scalable backend services used by institutional market participants.
Responsibilities
Leading and mentoring a team of 3–6 software engineers while remaining deeply hands-on
Designing, building, and scaling high-performance backend systems in Java
Collaborating closely with Product, Design, and other Engineering leads to shape technical direction
Owning architecture decisions for complex, distributed systems from greenfield through production
Helping drive engineering best practices, code quality, and team engagement
Playing a key role in hiring and growing the engineering organization
Qualification
Required
Strong background in capital markets technology (derivatives, securities, OMS, portfolio systems, etc.)
5+ years of Java server-side development experience
Production experience with Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Kafka, PostgreSQL
Cloud experience (AWS) and modern microservices architectures
Prior experience leading small engineering teams
Comfort working across the full stack (React / Node exposure a plus)
Strong communicator with a builder's mindset and ownership mentality
Benefits
Strong compensation
Long-term growth trajectory
Company
EC1 Partners
Ec1 Partners is a leading Global FinTech Recruitment Agency with offices in London, NY, Miami & Singapore
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