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

The Onset

City of Melbourne

On-site

AUD 140,000 - 230,000

Full time

6 days ago
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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.

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