Lead Payments Platform Engineer (Cloud-Native, High-Throughput)

The Onset; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

The Onset is partnering with a leading engineering organisation to hire multiple Lead Engineers to shape the future of its payments technology in Australia. You will own architecture and deliver high-throughput payment systems, working hands-on with Java and cloud-native delivery.

Permanent roles in Sydney and Melbourne, with opportunities to influence strategy, mentor engineers, and set engineering standards, while collaborating with Principal Engineers to scale the platform.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Java and Spring Boot experience in distributed systems.
• Proven ability to design large-scale, high-throughput payments platforms.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures on GCP.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture and technical direction for a cloud-native payments platform.
• Design and build scalable Java microservices on Google Cloud.
• Lead complex engineering initiatives from concept to production.
• Influence platform strategy and engineering standards.
• Mentor engineers and promote reliability and security.
• Champion innovation and operational excellence across the platform.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

GCP

Microservices

Distributed systems

NoSQL databases

API design

Payments domain

Leadership

Communication

Job description

The Onset is partnering with a leading engineering organisation to hire multiple Lead Engineers to shape the future of its payments technology in Australia. You will own architecture and deliver high-throughput payment systems, working hands-on with Java and cloud-native delivery.

Permanent roles in Sydney and Melbourne, with opportunities to influence strategy, mentor engineers, and set engineering standards, while collaborating with Principal Engineers to scale the platform.