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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in leading payments engineering teams, ensuring on-time execution while balancing technical direction with operational priorities. Proficient in payment processing, system design, and integration with a strong focus on security, scalability, and reliability.
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Technical LeadershipPayments EngineeringGo ProgrammingAWS Cloud EnvironmentsREST API Development
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Hard Skills
Payments ProcessingSystem DesignMicroservice ArchitecturesCI/CD PracticesPerformance OptimizationTransaction ConsistencyPayment Security PrinciplesIntegration ExperienceObservability MetricsAsynchronous Processing
Soft Skills
Emotional IntelligenceCommunication SkillsCross-Functional CollaborationCoaching ExperienceProblem-Solving
Tools & Technologies
AWSPostgreSQLDockerKubernetesPrometheusGrafanaRabbitMQStripeAdyenCheckout.com
Certifications & Qualifications
PCI DSS Compliance
Industry Keywords
Payment GatewaysTransaction LifecyclesReconciliationAuthorizationSettlementRecurring PaymentsDigital WalletsAPI Version ChangesSandbox TestingOperational Runbooks
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGrafanaKafkaKubernetesNoSQLPostgresPrometheusRabbitMQGo.NET
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the payments engineering team day to day, setting priorities, managing delivery plans, and ensuring predictable, on-time execution
- Translate customer, stakeholder, and product-manager business needs into technical designs and actionable development tasks
- Own technical direction for the payments domain, balancing short-term delivery with platform resilience, scalability, security, and maintainability
- Design, document, and communicate solution architectures, including technical impact, effort, dependencies, and resource requirements
- Provide hands-on technical guidance through design reviews, code reviews, and engineering decisions
- Serve as subject matter expert for payment processing, gateway integrations, transaction lifecycles, and reconciliation
- Integrate payment platforms, billing systems, CRM/BSS, financial systems, and external PSPs
- Oversee authorization, capture, settlement, refunds, recurring payments, and exception handling
- Ensure payment accuracy, traceability, and reconciliation between providers, internal systems, and financial records
- Improve reliability, payment success rates, transaction performance, cost efficiency, and platform reliability
- Contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning, and platform evolution for increasing transaction volumes
- Promote AI-assisted development, coding standards, software quality, automated testing, CI/CD, deployment reliability, and lifecycle ownership
- Ensure observability, security, compliance, and operational readiness across payment capabilities
- Lead production ownership, incident investigation, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement of payment processing procedures
- Participate in recruitment and uphold technical excellence across the team
- Collaborate with Product, IT, Finance, Operations, and Billing teams
Requirements
What you’ll need- Proven technical leadership and coaching experience in a team lead, senior engineer, or similar role
- Strong emotional intelligence, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to balance short-term delivery and operational priorities with long-term technical direction
- Experience prioritizing production operations, technical debt, integrations, and roadmap delivery
- Strong hands-on experience developing and operating scalable distributed systems
- Proficiency in Go, including concurrency, asynchronous processing, testing, and performance optimization
- Strong software architecture and system design skills, particularly service-oriented or microservice architectures
- Experience designing and maintaining reliable REST APIs and external system integrations
- Experience with AWS and cloud-native production environments
- Solid understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, deployment practices, and full software lifecycle ownership
- Working knowledge of relational databases and transaction consistency
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals, application security, encryption, secrets management, and secure handling of sensitive information
- Experience establishing production observability through metrics, logs, dashboards, and alerting
- Hands-on knowledge of payment gateways, PSP integrations, and end-to-end payment transaction lifecycles
- Strong understanding of authorization, capture, refunds, settlement, failure handling, and reconciliation
- Experience diagnosing payment failures, transaction inconsistencies, integration issues, and reconciliation discrepancies
- Understanding of payment security principles, including PCI DSS, tokenization, encryption, and data minimization
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Nice-to-have: integration experience with Stripe, Adyen, Checkout.com, or comparable PSPs
- Nice-to-have: experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, .NET, digital wallets, recurring payments, subscription billing, PSP routing, failover, retries, idempotency, circuit breakers, duplicate-payment prevention, provider migrations, API version changes, webhook processing, sandbox testing, provider certification, SLOs, production incidents, root-cause analysis, and operational runbooks
Benefits
Comp & perks- Growth opportunities and career advancement
- Major transaction exposure
- Collaboration with talented teams and external advisors
- Dynamic, collaborative, fast-paced work environment
- Professional development alongside industry experts
- Opportunities to work in different 1GLOBAL offices around the world
- Open communication culture
- Results-driven environment valuing efficiency, creativity, and tangible impact
- Equal opportunity, diverse, collaborative, dynamic, and international work environment