Lead Software Engineer – Payments
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OrderYOYOPayment systems
United KingdomFull-TimeLead
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- AzureCI/CDMicroservicesDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Experience leading, mentoring, or managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
- Strong backend engineering background in distributed systems.
- Experience with microservices, asynchronous processing, resilient APIs, and eventual consistency.
- Production experience with payment authorisation, capture, refunds, webhooks, and reconciliation.
- Knowledge of payment correctness patterns, including idempotency keys, double-entry thinking, and auditability.
- Security experience covering PCI compliance, PII protection, secrets management, least privilege, and secure coding.
- Comfort working in an Azure-first environment, including APIs, queues or eventing, and monitoring.
- Experience with CI/CD and automated testing practices.
- Ability to communicate with engineers and non-technical stakeholders in high-stakes situations.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, hire, and manage a team of payments engineers, including performance reviews and career development.
- Set technical direction and architecture strategy for payment services, gateway integrations, authorisation, capture, refunds, payouts, and reconciliation.
- Oversee marketplace onboarding, KYC integration, merchant configuration, settlement instructions, deductions, and invoicing alignment.
- Ensure payment systems support idempotency, ledgers or events, and auditable financial operations.
- Own strategy for PSP and partner integrations, including applicable tri-party and sub-merchant considerations.
- Oversee dispute, chargeback, and fraud-handling workflows, partnering with Operations on runbooks and escalations.
- Partner with Product, Legal/Compliance, Finance, and Support to turn requirements into safe, testable production behaviour.
- Improve automated testing, safe rollouts, observability, and incident response across the team.
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