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Principal Engineering Technical Lead

1 month, 3 weeks ago
Sri Lanka
Full-time
Lead
Engineering Manager
Software Development
AWS Azure C# CI/CD GitHub GitLab Grafana Prometheus Python React REST API System Design
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Onyx Capital Group

Onyx Capital Group

Onyx Capital Group is an alternative investment company specializing in mortgage-backed real estate notes. They are the largest liquidity provider by volume in oil derivatives, offering data, technology, and consultancy solutions to support energy deri...

Capital Markets
11-50
Founded 2016
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Description

  • Build and scale the Sri Lanka engineering hub from a founding team of 4–5 engineers to 10+ over time.
  • Lead the team technically while remaining hands-on in production code and day-to-day engineering work.
  • Set engineering standards and culture, including quality expectations, ownership, and team norms.
  • Drive architecture and system design decisions, balancing short-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
  • Define and enforce API standards, including REST API design, versioning, error handling, and documentation.
  • Own source control and CI/CD practices, including branching strategy, code review culture, and pipeline management.
  • Collaborate with the CTO in London, senior stakeholders, and remote business users to translate business needs into technical direction.
  • Remove blockers, set direction, and manage technical delivery without waiting for escalation.
  • Hire, mentor, and grow engineers while helping establish the hiring bar and team culture.
  • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for remote colleagues raising issues or requests.

Requirements

  • 10–15+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a technical leadership or engineering management role.
  • Proven experience building and growing engineering teams from a small hands-on group to a larger organization.
  • Hands-on proficiency in at least one of Python, React.js, or C#, with continued contribution to production codebases.
  • Deep understanding of OOP fundamentals, including encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and design patterns.
  • Strong Test-Driven Development practice, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
  • Architecture and system design fluency, including the ability to communicate technical decisions and manage technical debt.
  • Experience with REST API design, versioning, error handling, and documentation.
  • Experience owning source control and CI/CD practices using GitHub, Azure DevOps, or GitLab.
  • Cloud platform experience with Azure required; AWS is a nice to have.
  • Experience hiring, mentoring, and shaping engineering culture from day one.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills with remote business users and leadership across time zones.
  • Excellent written and spoken English for communication with senior stakeholders and the CTO.
  • Experience working with global, distributed engineering teams and remote collaboration.
  • Startup or scale-up experience is a nice to have.
  • Prior experience in financial services or fintech is a nice to have.
  • Experience establishing or improving remote support workflows, runbooks, escalation paths, and response SLAs is a nice to have.
  • Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Azure Monitor is a nice to have.

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