Tech Lead

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.

Hybrid

Full-time

What You’ll Do

• Drive the delivery of team goals, contributing to the definition of objectives and technical strategies across multiple teams within your group or with partner teams.
• Take ownership of the overall design, architecture, development, quality, and production environment deployment of systems that have a lasting impact across the group.
• Design and implement robust, scalable backend solutions that address both technical and business challenges.
• Collaborate effectively as a leader within your group, working with cross-functional teams such as Product, Design/UX, DevOps, and other R&D teams to drive synergies and alignment.
• Navigate trade-offs in solving novel problems, considering both technical and business implications.
• Represent your team in design reviews, sign off on critical designs, and contribute to group-wide architectural decisions.
• Proactively seek opportunities to address group-level challenges, setting a path for scalable and innovative solutions that can be transformed into new projects.
• Share ownership in validating group quality and delivery standards, contributing to mentorship and professional growth of the group’s engineers.
• Actively participate in mentoring and onboarding engineers, as well as contributing to the hiring process.
  
  

• 7+ years in backend software engineering roles, with experience in technical leadership and strategy development across teams.
• Expertise in C#, Java, or similar object-oriented programming languages.
• Advanced SQL skills and solid experience with database management systems.
• In-depth understanding of software design principles, data structures, and algorithms.
• Proficiency in microservices architecture and building scalable systems.
• Proven ability to solve novel and complex problems, particularly in scenarios requiring architectural innovation.
• Experience in influencing other teams, collaborating on cross-group initiatives, and mentoring engineers.
• BA/BSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience (e.g., military technology units like 8200).
  
  

• Practical experience with Agile development methodologies.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Knowledge of non-relational databases (e.g., MongoDB).