Lead Software Engineer, Payments
- Remote, Germany
- Lead
- Posted 2 weeks ago
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Lead a payments engineering team at a restaurant tech company, owning architecture and people management. Remote with quarterly team gatherings.
About the role
Payments sit at the core of the business, handling authorisation, settlement, disputes, and merchant invoicing. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with growing a team in a critical domain.
At a glance
- Pay
- Not stated in the posting
- Remote scope
- Remote, Germany
- Seniority
- Lead
- Skills
- KYC, Idempotency, Ledgers, Audit trails, Automated testing, Observability
- Posted
- 21 Oct 2026
- Last checked
- 1 Nov 2026
What you will do
- Set the technical direction and long-term architecture for payment services, including gateway integrations and payout orchestration.
- Oversee marketplace capabilities such as onboarding, KYC, settlement instructions, deductions, and invoicing.
- Partner with Product, Legal, Finance, and Support to turn requirements into safe production behaviour.
- Improve engineering quality through automated testing, safe rollouts, observability, and incident response.
What they look for
- Hands-on technical leadership in payments or a related business-critical domain.
- Experience with payment flows such as authorisation, capture, refund, and reconciliation.
- Ability to balance hands-on coding with people management responsibilities.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- Quarterly team gatherings in one of the global offices.
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The posting lists it as remote for people in Germany.
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What experience is needed?
It is a lead role. The posting asks for: hands-on technical leadership in payments or a related business-critical domain; experience with payment flows such as authorisation, capture, refund, and reconciliation; ability to balance hands-on coding with people management responsibilities. Skills it names include KYC, Idempotency, Ledgers, Audit trails.
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