Lead Software Engineer – Payments

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of payments engineers.

• Provide hands-on technical support, constructive feedback, and career advancement.

• Take ownership of hiring and team formation within the payments engineering sector.

• Conduct one-on-one meetings, set goals, perform performance evaluations, and facilitate career development discussions.

• Foster a culture of documented and shared knowledge in payments.

• Represent the payments engineering team in leadership and cross-functional meetings.

• Establish the technical direction and long-term architectural strategy for services within the payment domain.

• Manage gateway integrations, authorization, capture, refund processes, payout orchestration, and reconciliation.

• Supervise onboarding/KYC integration, merchant setup, settlement instructions, deductions, and invoicing.

• Ensure the reliability of flow-of-funds principles, including idempotency, ledgers/events, and audit trails.

• Own the strategy for PSP and partner integrations.

• Oversee workflows associated with disputes, chargebacks, and fraud management.

• Collaborate with Product, Legal/Compliance, Finance, and Support teams.

• Enhance automated testing, safe deployments, observability, and incident response processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in leading, mentoring, or managing a software engineering team, including hiring, performance evaluation, and career development.

• Strong backend engineering expertise in distributed systems, including microservices, asynchronous processing, resilient APIs, and eventual consistency.

• Practical experience with payment processes, such as authorization, capture, refunds, webhooks, and reconciliation.

• Familiarity with money-correctness patterns, including idempotency keys, double-entry principles, and auditability.

• Robust security mindset addressing PCI compliance, PII protection, secrets management, least privilege, and secure coding practices.

• Comfortable operating in an Azure-first environment with APIs, queues/eventing, and monitoring.

• Strong practices in CI/CD and automated testing.

• Effective and confident communication skills with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders in high-pressure scenarios.

• Sound judgment in balancing team capacity, technical debt, and business priorities.

• Experience in scaling or restructuring an engineering team amidst growth or organizational changes.

• Experience with sub-merchant, marketplace, or Payfac-like business models.

• Familiarity with dispute management tools, card scheme regulations, 3DS/risk rules, or fraud platforms.

• Experience collaborating with Legal, Compliance, or Finance leaders regarding regulatory or audit requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Remote position with the flexibility to work from anywhere.

• Quarterly in-person meetings at one of our global offices.

• High levels of ownership and autonomy.

• Clear leadership objectives with opportunities for broader engineering management roles.

• Chance to lead revenue-critical production systems.

• Strong emphasis on security, reliability, and engineering best practices.

• Collaborative and diverse international engineering team.

• Opportunities for learning, mentoring, and long-term professional growth.