Lead Software Engineer – Payments

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Responsibilities

• ▹Lead, mentor and grow a team of payments engineers with hands-on technical guidance and career development
• ▹Own hiring and team-building for the payments engineering function, partnering with recruiting on role profiles and interviews
• ▹Run day-to-day people management: 1:1s, goal-setting, performance reviews, career progression
• ▹Build a team culture where payments knowledge is documented and shared through design reviews, standards and mentoring
• ▹Represent the payments engineering team in leadership and cross-functional conversations
• ▹Balance hands-on technical contribution with people-management responsibilities
• ▹Set technical direction and architecture strategy for payment-domain services: gateway integrations, payment intent/authorisation/capture/refund, payout orchestration, reconciliation
• ▹Oversee marketplace capabilities: onboarding/KYC integration, merchant configuration, settlement instructions, deductions, invoicing
• ▹Ensure robust flow-of-funds primitives across the team's systems: idempotency, ledgers/events, audit trails
• ▹Own the strategy for PSP and partner integrations
• ▹Oversee dispute/chargeback and fraud-handling touchpoints, drive collaboration with Ops on runbooks and escalation paths
• ▹Partner with Product, Legal/Compliance, Finance and Support
• ▹Raise engineering quality across the team: automated testing, safe rollouts/canaries, observability, incident-response

Requirements

• ▹Proven hands-on technical leadership experience growing and managing a team of engineers
• ▹Strong background in setting architecture strategy for business-critical, payment-domain systems
• ▹Experience balancing people management with hands-on technical contribution
• ▹Ability to lead hiring, interviews and career development for an engineering team

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Remote work
• ▹Quarterly team gatherings in one of the global offices
• ▹Competitive salary

About the company

OrderYOYO puts company culture first, creating a positive, inclusive environment where people are trusted to do their best work, take ownership of what they build, and where personal development is central.