Engineering Team Leader - Payment

Are you ready to make a monumental impact on some of our newest products at Elementor? We are searching for an exceptional Engineering Lead to build and lead the development of Elementor’s Payment Platform that lets any Elementor product accept one-off or usage-based payments globally, securely, and at scale

The ideal candidate brings deep experience in payments or fintech and a platform-oriented mindset to found and lead this new team from the ground up.

This role involves creating and assembling a high-performing team, recruiting exceptional talent, and overseeing the entire product development journey to drive innovation and achieve significant results.

At Elementor, your role as a Team Leader is more than just a job - it's an opportunity to lead, innovate, and inspire. If you're passionate about technology and excel in a collaborative, rapidly evolving environment, we want to hear from you. Join us in shaping the future of web development and building something amazing together.

Apply now and be a part of our journey towards unprecedented growth!

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead a new team of skilled software engineers, setting a high technical and cultural bar.
• Recruit, grow, and mentor top engineering talent, ensuring a healthy and high-performing team.
• Define and evolve the platform’s technical architecture and roadmap, from early design to scaled implementation.
• Drive end-to-end ownership of product delivery, ensuring quality, timelines, and impact.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, QA, DevOps, Data, and other stakeholders to align on goals and drive execution.
• Lead the design and development of scalable, secure, and high-availability payment services and infrastructure.
• Build systems with future scale, extensibility, and compliance in mind.

Requirements

• Proven leadership experience, including 5+ years leading engineers, with a track record of hiring, growing, and managing high-performing teams.
• Hands-on experience in building and scaling payments or fintech systems.
• Strong platform engineering background, including microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and versioned APIs.
• Deep knowledge of security, compliance, and regulatory considerations in fintech/payments.
• Demonstrated success in taking products from 0 → 1 in fast-paced environments.
• Backend-focused, with working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks.
• Strong system design and problem-solving skills, with a hands-on, proactive mindset.
• Proficiency in object-oriented programming and software design patterns.

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What do we do?

Elementor is the leading website building platform for WordPress professionals.

Our vision is to empower web creators - developers, designers, and marketers, with the ability to create their futures one pixel at a time. We provide our users with everything they need to become successful web creators.

A new website is created every 10 seconds using Elementor!

Since we launched in Israel in 2016, we have expanded to more than 160 countries, with more than 18M websites powered by Elementor. More than 12% of all websites around the world are built using Elementor!

How do we do it?

At Elementor, we're building the future of web creation.

We believe in empowering both our employees and our users.

Elementor is a place where you can truly grow professionally and personally.

Creativity, friendship, curiosity, motivation, and professionalism are the driving force behind our journey. We take great pride in Elementor's constant scaling