Team Leader (Python)

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

Exness, a leading foreign exchange broker in the financial services field, is looking for Team Leader who will join our Exness Technology Department.

Main responsibilities:

As a technical lead:

• Assessment and implementation of technologies and tools in a team
• Makes decisions in the choice of technologies in the team, makes an expert assessment of the selected tools
• Together with the team, analyzes and eliminates incidents by product, implements changes to prevent incidents in the future
• Participates in the process of quarterly planning, setting goals for the team, analyzing relationships to achieve goals
• Participates in the process of assessing the achievement of team goals
• Participates 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, determines technical solutions for business problems (how exactly the business requirement for the product will be technically implemented)
• Interacts with other team leaders of the business unit teams, as well as the Head of Engineering in order to identify the relationships between products and build an appropriate compatible architecture
• Together with the team, develops and implements standards and product development procedures (not only those adopted in the team, but throughout the entire business unit). Ensures understanding and adherence to the standards of all team members
• Ensures that the developed product meets the business requirements
• Spends part of the time to independently solve problems that correspond to professional skills

As a line manager:

• Leads 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)
• Develops and mentors new team members and actively supports the ongoing development of current team members (in conjunction with the Manager, L&D and HRBP)
• Participates in setting goals for the team, as well as for specific team members
• Motivates and inspires the team to achieve high results
• Knows the strengths and helps to improve the weaknesses of all team members for further development and achievement of better performance

Your qualification

• Experience in making an efficient team (transformation from low to high performing team as a plus)
• Experience in people management 2+ years
• Experience in software development 6+ year (Python from 2 years) as an advantage
• 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)
• Knowledge of waterfall and agile methodologies. Knowledge of canonic scrum
• Project Management and/or Scrum Master experience as a must
• Fluent written and spoken English 
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

What we offer

• Official employment in accordance with the laws of Cyprus and the EU, registration of family members
• Medical insurance for employees and family members + Partial dental and optical compensation for employees
• New branded corporate Mini Cooper CountryMan S for all relocated employees
• Outstanding relocation package (visa, tickets, corporate flat for 1 month) for a successful candidate and his/her family
• Learning and development opportunities: company supports continuous development of Employees providing trainings, workshops, conferences etc.
• Company fitness center for employees and their spouses + Partial compensation for any sport activities
• English and Greek language classes
• Kindergarten/school compensation program
• The best view to the sea from our own rooftop bar 
• We support the relocation of our candidates by providing visa and migration processing and do our best to help them to be successful in the company