Tech Lead (Payments) - Remote

Overview

As our Tech Lead for the Payments Processing team, you’ll architect and own the core payment and ledger services that power our platform. You’ll set the technical direction, establish best practices for reliability and security, and mentor engineers to deliver robust, scalable solutions in a highly regulated environment.

In Short

• 7+ years in software development, with at least 3 in a technical leadership or architect role
• Proven experience building and operating a ledger-based payment system
• Expert in Golang, microservices architectures, and API design
• Strong SQL skills (PostgreSQL or equivalent)
• Experience designing for high throughput, low latency and strict consistency guarantees
• Solid experience with integration and end-to-end testing of payment flows
• Proven mentor and coach for mid-level and junior engineers
• Lead design and code reviews focused on reliability, scalability and security
• Partner with Product Managers and Compliance to translate requirements into services
• Define key service health metrics and monitoring/alerting systems

Requirements

• Deep understanding of security and compliance in payments
• Experience with message queues/event buses (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Expertise in observability: logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting
• Strong communicator, able to align cross-functional teams
• Track record defining and enforcing coding standards and CI/CD pipelines

Benefits

• Work in a leading payments platform for service-based companies
• Innovative environment fostering growth and exceptional value
• Collaborative culture focused on transparency and dependability
• Diversity and inclusion in the workplace