Tech Lead (Backend): Cards
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BVNKFintech Payments
South Africa, Bulgaria, Poland, SpainFull-TimeLead
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8–12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3–5+ years in senior or technical leadership roles.
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerSQLJavaKubernetesSpring BootNosqlRESTful APIsMicroservices
Requirements
- 8–12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3–5+ years in senior or technical leadership roles.
- Proven track record designing and delivering complex, scalable systems such as microservices, event-driven architectures, or high-throughput APIs.
- Experience acting as the primary technical decision-maker for a team or domain.
- Strong understanding of card payments, issuing programmes, or transaction processing in a regulated environment.
- Experience with PCI-DSS compliance or similar security/regulatory frameworks.
- Strong experience leading end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives across multiple sprints.
- Experience mentoring and developing engineers.
- Strong proficiency in Java/Spring Boot.
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, system integration patterns, and data modelling using SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
- Good understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with observability and reliability tooling.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical architecture for the cards platform (card issuing, tokenization, transaction processing, settlement).
- Act as the primary technical decision-maker within the squad.
- Lead the design and delivery of scalable, compliant systems, APIs, and distributed services.
- Own the technical roadmap for cards engineering, aligning with product and business objectives.
- Coordinate delivery across multiple workstreams (card issuance, transactions, settlements, compliance).
- Contribute hands-on to the codebase through development, debugging, optimisation, and code reviews.
- Mentor and develop engineers through technical coaching, pairing sessions, and constructive feedback.
- Promote engineering best practices around testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and security.
- Lead technical assessments and integration design with third-party card providers.
- Partner with Product and Business on prioritisation, translating business requirements into technical solutions.
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