Tech Lead – Payments and Billing

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the delivery outcomes and engineering standards for the Payments squad.

• Create specifications and design documents.

• Provide constructive feedback on ADRs and review pull requests.

• Tackle complex technical challenges through code or workflows.

• Establish the architectural direction for the payments service.

• Take responsibility for payment accuracy and processing efficiency to minimize costs.

• Define the operational model and pace of the squad.

• Manage sequencing and dependencies effectively.

• Diagnose throughput issues and ensure visibility of squad work to stakeholders.

• Mentor junior engineers while collaborating with senior engineers on challenging problems.

• Identify gaps in promotions and hiring alongside the manager.

• Report directly to the Service Manager for Saldo.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience as a tech lead responsible for a squad's delivery and standards.

• Skilled in writing design documents, reviewing pull requests and ADRs, and resolving problems hands-on while guiding direction.

• Ability to balance hands-on involvement in significant technical challenges with mentoring junior engineers.

• Experience in designing a team's operational framework from the ground up, focusing on speed, quality, and resilience.

• Proven track record of managing cross-team sequencing and dependencies.

• Experience in diagnosing throughput issues.

• Comfortable setting technical direction in uncertain areas.

• Proven ability to drive technical blockers to resolution.

• Familiarity with payments systems (desirable).

• Experience enhancing cost-to-process or processing efficiency in a high-volume service (desirable).

• Experience scaling a service from a basic initial version to a fully operational system (desirable).

• Proficient in English, both spoken and written.

🏝️ Benefits

• Stock options allowing everyone to have a stake in our mission.

• 25 days of holiday in addition to public holidays.

• Option to exchange public holidays for preferred days off.

• Day off for your birthday.

• Remote-first working environment with flexible arrangements.

• Clearly defined core working hours.

• No internal meetings scheduled for Friday afternoons.

• Up to GBP1,200 or EUR1,200 per annum for remote setup expenses.

• Up to GBP150 or EUR150 per month allocated for wellbeing initiatives.