R&D Team Leader, Payments

Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with a mission to revolutionize the payroll and payments industry. With over $400M raised from top-tier investors, our innovative technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, from hiring and onboarding to managing and paying employees in over 160 countries.

We’re looking for an experienced Team Leader to join our growing R&D.

We use Java to develop our backend and use the latest AWS services for development and production environments.

You will:

• Hire, mentor, and grow a full-stack agile engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation
• Take a hands-on approach in developing the tools and infrastructure for our data processes
• Work closely with Papaya's product team to understand and define requirements
• Manage your team tasks and ensure quality and timely execution using agile methodologies
• Keep up-to-date on the latest techniques in management, development, and testing
  
  

• 5+ years as a team leader
• 10+ years of experience in server-side development (Java)
• Experience in designing and developing scalable, high-performance systems within a microservice-oriented architecture
• Experience in agile development, including continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD), and coding for automated testing
• Experience with DevOps methodologies and best practices (or at the very least, full-service ownership - creating and deploying services in a microservice environment)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MariaDB, Aurora, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
• Experience with in-memory data stores (e.g., Redis) and messaging/queuing systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS)
• Experience with AWS services (e.g., Lambda, S3, CloudWatch)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong problem-solving skills with a get-things-done mentality
• A team player with excellent collaboration skills