Payments Platform Lead Engineer – Cloud-Native

Onset Group; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Onset Group is seeking a Lead Engineer – Payments for Sydney and Melbourne to join an engineering leadership team shaping the payments platform. You will own architecture, platform strategy and standards while delivering high-throughput services.

You will design and build cloud-native Java microservices on Google Cloud, mentor engineers, and drive reliability, security and performance across the platform. This is a hands-on, influential role with broad stakeholder collaboration.

Qualifications

• Hands-on payments engineering experience.
• Ability to influence platform strategy and engineering standards.
• Experience delivering large-scale, cloud-native payments platforms.

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 best practices.
• Mentor engineers through technical leadership and design reviews.
• Champion reliability, performance, security and operational excellence.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Google Cloud

Microservices

Event-driven

API design

Payments systems

NoSQL

Technical leadership

Job description

Onset Group is seeking a Lead Engineer – Payments for Sydney and Melbourne to join an engineering leadership team shaping the payments platform. You will own architecture, platform strategy and standards while delivering high-throughput services.

You will design and build cloud-native Java microservices on Google Cloud, mentor engineers, and drive reliability, security and performance across the platform. This is a hands-on, influential role with broad stakeholder collaboration.