Tech Lead - Operator Finance

We’ve signed up to an ambitious journey. Join us! As Arrive, we guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities, it isn’t a challenge just anyone could take on. Luckily, we have something to help us make it happen. Our people and our values. We Arrive Curious, Focused and Together. Just as our entire brand is inspired by the North Star, the shining light leading travelers to their destinations since time began, our values guide us. They help us be at our best. For our customers. For the cities and communities we serve. For ourselves. As a global team, we are transforming urban mobility. Let’s grow better, together. Tech Lead The Operational Finance team is responsible for delivering financial reporting to internal partners and external parking operators to enable invoicing and remittance. The team works with production data and follows a full-stack approach, where the Tech Lead plays a crucial role in providing technical vision, mentoring engineers, and ensuring the quality and successful delivery of the product. We are seeking a highly experienced engineer with strong Java/Kotlin expertise and proven full-stack programming and leadership principles to guide the team's technical direction. Team profile is full stack with back-end and front-end. The Tech Stack: PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Java, Kotlin, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, REST, JavaScript We are looking for a full-stack Tech Lead for a full-time position. Key Responsibilities: Provide technical leadership and direction to the team, including making critical architectural and design decisions. Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Lead the analysis and enhancement of complex existing business logic in backend services based on new requirements. Drive and perform code reviews, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code. Collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical execution plans and tasks. Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle, from concept and design to deployment and post-launch monitoring. Contribute to alleviating technical debt by setting and enforcing industry best practices and standards. Oversee product support (PSS) and participate in on-call duty, leading the team's response to critical incidents and outages. Requirements: Extensive experience designing, building, and operating highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems. Proven experience leading technical projects and mentoring a team of engineers. Expert-level solid understanding of Spring Framework (Java) for backend development in a microservice environment (deep experience with Java and Kotlin). Expertise in building (Docker) and management (Kubernetes) tools. Deep knowledge of data modeling and management tools (PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Looker). Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles. Experience in writing and advocating for robust testing strategies (unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests), including Behaviour Driven Testing. Strong command of DevOps practices (rapid delivery of changes while the service is serving users in production; troubleshooting incidents and outages; end-to-end ownership of the solution). Solid understanding of designing and consuming RESTful APIs. Strong exposure to front-end technologies (React framework, JavaScript). Experience with database migration tools like Flyway / Liquibase or similar technologies. Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to drive complex technical issues to resolution. Highly motivated, proactive, self-organized, and an effective technical communicator. Good written and spoken communication skills in English. Preferred: Excellent documentation skills, especially for architectural and design decisions. Demonstrated ability to grasp and clarify ambiguous requirements from conversations with stakeholders. Comfortabl