Lead Payments Platform Engineer - Cloud-Native & Scalable

Bespoke Careers; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bespoke Careers is helping a leading engineering organisation hire multiple Lead Engineers to shape the future of payments technology in Sydney and Melbourne.

You will drive architecture, own key platform decisions and lead high-impact initiatives while remaining hands-on with Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-native microservices. This role offers a path to technical leadership and real influence on payments infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Java and Spring Boot building modern distributed systems.
• Cloud-native apps on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience delivering large-scale, high-throughput payments platforms.
• Leadership experience mentoring engineers and driving technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture and technical direction across a modern, cloud-native payments platform.
• Design and build scalable, resilient Java microservices running on Google Cloud.
• Lead complex engineering initiatives from concept through to production.
• Influence platform strategy, architectural decisions and engineering best practices.
• Mentor and develop engineers through technical leadership, design reviews and coaching.
• Champion innovation, reliability, performance, security and operational excellence across the platform.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

Distributed systems

API design

NoSQL databases

Leadership

Tools

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Job description

Bespoke Careers is helping a leading engineering organisation hire multiple Lead Engineers to shape the future of payments technology in Sydney and Melbourne.

You will drive architecture, own key platform decisions and lead high-impact initiatives while remaining hands-on with Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-native microservices. This role offers a path to technical leadership and real influence on payments infrastructure.