R&D Director

A universe of opportunities. Open to you.

Payoneer’s mission is to empower anyone, anywhere to participate and succeed in the global economy. If our mission connects with your values, if you revel in solving complex challenges, and if you want to continuously advance your career, come realize your potential at Payoneer!

Life at Payoneer is a global community, where you’ll work with colleagues all over the world, in a hybrid or remote work frame. As an equal opportunity employer, the only things that matter to us are your skills, your drive and your desire to have a positive impact on others.

We’re looking for a technology & people enthusiastic R&D Director to lead with a drive for excellence and out of the box mindset to satisfy business needs in a complex payment solution environment.

What You’ll Be Spending Your Time On

• Build and lead an organization of 30-40 people including team leads, software engineers,
• Lead creation of a new platform and support current products and services in the process of modernizing our platform to support business growth and provide solutions for our customers.
• Grow and tutor managers, teams and engineers and scale the organization.
• Work in an agile environment with a highly professional and capable teams.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Architects, SRE DevOps, Operation and other R&D teams to achieve business goals.
• Design solutions, evaluate architecture options, set technical direction and quality standards, guide implementation.
• Promote personal development while maintaining an innovative culture.
• Take ownership of the group’s growth and recruiting process.
• Effectively manage all resources according to objectives and business needs as well as make the right decisions.
  
  

• A team player attitude and mentality.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Experience and passion managing and growing people.
• Ambition and eagerness to learn new things.
• Dedication to understanding and meeting customer needs
  
  

• B.Sc in computer science or equivalent - must.
• 5+ years of managerial experience, leading a large dev group (managing managers) or entire R&D in Small medium company.
• 5 + years of experience as a developer - all the way from DB to UI (Using C#, .NET -big advantage!, Java, familiar with REST WEB API and Queues).
• Broad knowledge and opinions of Microservices architecture, OOP and design patterns.
• Experience developing systems (and not just services).
• Experience with frontend technologies like Angular, React.
• Experience in engineering best practices (code-reviews, test coverage, agile methodologies).
• Experience with Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) – Advantage.
• Experience with UX design – Advantage.