Engineering Director

First Hill Bank is a regional bank with over 200 branches and 280 employees across Western Province. Wealth management, mortgage and treasury services each operate as separate lines of business.

The role

First Hill Bank has an opening for an Engineering Director. Our operations team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. This role is fully remote within Sri Lanka. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed

What you'll need

• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL

Benefits

Rate: LKR 490,000 - LKR 640,000 a month

• Medical insurance for you and your family
• Company laptop
• Internet allowance

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at First Hill Bank.