Development Team Leader (Python or Golang)

About Exness

Exness is a multi-asset broker with an international team of approximately 1,800 people, a third of whom work in the Technology, Data and Security offices. Our goal in Exness is to develop exceptional products that will help experienced traders to trade various assets with better-than-market conditions.

Since our founding in 2008, we work with the firm belief that trading can - and should - be ethical. And so we developed proprietary algorithms and services to give our clients the most effective trading tools and conditions in the industry. Ambitious business goals balanced by genuine care for our customers and a healthy level of technical perfectionism define our model. And thanks to this approach, in 2022, our monthly trading volume reached $2.7 trillion, and the number of active users exceeded 320,000 people worldwide.

Our chosen path encourages employees to deepen their technical expertise, rely on scientific methods, and seek innovative solutions. We work on a modern stack without having to deal with excess legacy, and our architecture stands on k8s, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, REST or gRPC as an alternative. We use the GitOps through Gitlab CI approach and cover everything with automated integration testing. Some of our teams' favorites are ClickHouse, MongoDB, React, and Flink.

Our clusters are automatically managed through the code and can handle thousands of events per second. We use Kafka to decentralize our service, and the main languages our tech team uses are Python and Go while in the Trading Core, we also use C++ and C#.

For the front-end, we use React, and most of the projects are TypeScript SPAs using technologies such as Web-sockets, Service Worker, PWA, Web-push, AB-testing, and Webpack Federation.

The people we’ve brought together come from many different countries with vast experience from leading IT companies. Although some of them work remotely, our main development office is located in Limassol, Cyprus. Any colleague who wants to relocate to Cyprus, whether alone or with family, will be provided with exceptional support, including a corporate MINI Countryman and financial allowance for private schools and kindergartens.

Our teams are constantly expanding and we’re always seeking the best talent to join us in providing the best possible trading experience to our clients. So check out the many exciting vacancies we have on our career website.

Position

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Team Leader (with strong experience in Python or Golang) to join our Security Development team within Exness' Technology Department. You will lead a new cross-functional development team and ensure that the developed tools meet the business requirements of our stakeholders.

The successful candidate will be required to relocate to our offices in Cyprus, where are headquarters are located.

You will:

As a technical lead:

• Assess and implement technologies and tools in a team
• Make decisions in the choice of technologies in the team, make an expert assessment of the selected tools 
• Together with the team, analyze and eliminate incidents by product, implement changes to prevent incidents in the future
• Participate in the process of quarterly planning, setting goals for the team, analyse relationships to achieve goals
• Participate in the process of assessing the achievement of team goals
• Participate in the formation of reports: allocation of resources for projects, a report on the work performed by the team for a week/quarter, and others, if necessary
• Together with the team, determine technical solutions for business problems (how exactly the business requirement for the product will be technically implemented) 
• Interact with other team leaders of the business unit teams, as well as the Head of Software Development in order to identify the relationships between products and build an appropriate compatible architecture 
• Together with the team, develop and implement standards and product development procedures (not only those adopted in the team, but throughout the entire business unit). Ensure understanding and adherence to the standards of all team members
• Ensure that the developed product meets the business requirements
• Spend part of the time to independently solve problems that correspond to professional skills

As a line manager:

• Lead the team in order to create a product within a certain time frame in accordance with the policies and procedures of the business unit, including participation in hiring, performance review and feedback to team members (together with the Manager and HRBP) 
• Develop and mentor new team members and actively support the ongoing development of current team members (in conjunction with the Manager, L&D and HRBP)
• Participate in setting goals for the team, as well as for specific team members
• Motivate and inspire the team to achieve high results
• Know the strengths and help to improve the weaknesses of all team members for further development and achievement of better performance

Your qualification

• Experience in building an efficient team (transformation from low to high performing team as a plus) 
• 1+ years of experience in people management as a Team Lead
• 6+ years of experience in software development and at least 3+ years with a focus on Python or Golang
• Good knowledge of the full-cycle of software development. Experience in big enterprise companies as a plus
• Experience in hiring/replacing members (difficult cases as a plus), and involvement in interviewing process 
• Knowledge of waterfall and agile methodologies. Knowledge of canonic scrum
• Project Management and/or Scrum Master experience is nice to have
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Fluent written and spoken English and Russian

What we offer

• Competitive salary based on the candidate's expectations and internal benchmark
• Outstanding conditions for professional growth and development
• Full relocation package to Cyprus for the family and visa support (if you are not already in Cyprus)
• Mini Cooper Countryman S for the relocated employee
• Medical insurance coverage for employees and family members
• Company fitness center for employees and their spouses & allowance for other sports activities
• Kindergarten/school compensation program 
• Result-oriented approach and flexible working conditions
• Corporate employee share scheme for all the employees
• 21 days of annual leave, flexible public holidays, Christmas break and sick leave