R&D Team Leader

About Payoneer

Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Role Summary

As an Engineering Team Lead, you will be a key leader within our high-performing engineering organization. You will have the opportunity to drive the execution of complex technical initiatives, mentor a team of talented engineers, and influence the architectural direction of our core systems. Whether it's scaling our infrastructure, launching new product features, improving development workflows, or ensuring system reliability and performance, you'll play a central role in aligning engineering efforts with business goals. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and leadership teams to build innovative solutions that support the company’s long-term growth and vision.

Location: Israel.

Hybrid

Full-time.

 What You’ll Do

• Collaborate closely with Development, Product, Design/UX, DevOps, and other teams and department
• Work within an autonomous scrum team in an agile environment to achieve business goals
• Instill a quality-centric mindset within your team, overseeing design, architecture, development, code, and a stable production environment
• Take an active role in defining the shape of the future of online payments
• Provide guidance to team members on test planning and execution following best practices, testing pyramid and company QA standards
• Define and plan testing strategies using a deep understanding of the business logic of complex systems
• Lead and run complex E2E Testing for Web Applications and Web services while ensuring coverage and monitoring
• Strong use of SQL queries performing tests
  
  

• B.S. in computer science or equivalent.
• 5 + years of experience as a server side developer, all the way from DB to UI (using C#  – a must!, REST APIs, and asynchronous communication with Queues/Streams).
• Experience with advance SQL (MSSQL/Oracle/MySql/PostgreSQL etc.).
• 3+ years of experience managing teams, mentoring and developing team members.
• Broad knowledge of OOP and design patterns.
• Team player attitude and mentality.
• Experienced and passionate about managing and growing people.
• Experience in engineering best practices (code-reviews, testing coverage, agile methodologies).
• Ambitious and eager to learn new things.
  
  

• Experience with frontend technologies like Angular, React.
• Experience with messaging queues or streams such as RabbitMQ/SQS/Kafka.
• Experience with Redis or alike.
• Experience with ORM such as Entity Framework.
• Experience with Microservices.
• Experience in building SaaS platforms in a cloud-based environment.