Tech Lead (Backend): Billing & Fees

Jobgether

Schweiz

Hybrid

CHF 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Flexible working hours

Hybrid/Remote work

Travel opportunities

Collaborative culture

Innovative tech environment

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Tech Lead (Backend) – Billing & Fees based in Switzerland. You will own the technical direction of the Billing & Fees subdomain, shaping architecture for fee policy, calculation, invoicing, and reconciliation.

You will lead a distributed engineering team, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Finance, and Commercial to translate complex financial requirements into reliable software. Hybrid or remote-first environment with international, distributed teams.

Qualifications

At least 7 years of backend software engineering experience.
Advise and guide engineering teams on architecture decisions.
Design and deliver distributed, production-grade systems.
Strong knowledge of microservices and event-driven architectures.
Experience with relational databases and caching.
Background with financially sensitive systems (billing, invoicing, reconciliation).
Proven ability to own technical architecture and balance scalability, reliability and delivery timelines.
Strong API design experience and integration patterns.
Familiarity with observability tools and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

Own the technical direction and roadmap for the Billing & Fees subdomain.
Design, develop, and maintain scalable billing services (policy, calculation, invoicing, adjustments, reconciliation).
Automate workflows to improve efficiency and reduce errors.
Build data pipelines and integrations with Snowflake, Salesforce, Ledger, and internal services.
Establish practices for accuracy, auditability, and error handling.
Lead architecture reviews and ensure domain-driven, hexagonal, and event-driven designs.
Mentor engineers and maintain production ownership across the team.
Collaborate with Product, Finance, Commercial, Back Office, Ledger, Digital Assets, and Fiat teams.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Spring Boot

Microservices

Event-driven

Kafka

AWS SQS

Relational DBs

Redis

REST APIs

Domain-driven design

Hexagonal architecture

Leadership/mentoring

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Snowflake

Salesforce

Ledger

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Tech Lead (Backend): Billing & Fees based in Switzerland.

This is an opportunity to lead the technical evolution of a critical billing platform within a growing financial technology environment. You will shape the architecture and roadmap for services that manage fee configuration, transaction calculations, invoicing, adjustments, and reconciliation. The role focuses on replacing manual processes with automated, scalable infrastructure that supports increasingly complex commercial agreements and high transaction volumes. You will combine hands-on backend engineering with technical leadership, guiding architecture decisions and mentoring engineers. Working closely with Product, Finance, Commercial, and other engineering teams, you will translate complex financial requirements into reliable software solutions. The position offers a hybrid or remote working approach within an international, distributed environment.

Accountabilities

Own the technical direction, architecture, and engineering roadmap for the Billing & Fees subdomain, ensuring the platform supports evolving commercial models, transaction volumes, and operational requirements.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable billing services covering fee policy configuration, fee calculation, invoice generation, billing adjustments, and reconciliation.

Replace manual billing workflows with automated, reliable processes that improve operational efficiency and reduce errors.

Build and maintain robust data pipelines and integrations across systems such as Snowflake, Salesforce, Ledger, and internal financial services, ensuring accurate data flows from transaction processing through invoicing and reporting.

Establish engineering practices that protect financial accuracy and auditability, including idempotency, traceability, reconciliation, exception handling, and comprehensive audit trails.

Lead technical design submissions, architecture reviews, and service design, applying domain-driven design, hexagonal architecture, and event-driven patterns.

Remain hands-on in production code development, technical design, and code reviews while mentoring engineers, resolving complex challenges, and raising engineering standards.

Collaborate with Product, Finance, Commercial, Back Office, Ledger, Digital Assets, and Fiat teams to translate business requirements into clear technical solutions and reliable integrations.

Drive operational excellence by establishing standards for observability, monitoring, performance, incident response, and service recovery.

Guide the team in managing production workloads, including message-processing failures, dead-letter queues, incident resolution, and system resilience.

Set expectations for testing, CI/CD, documentation, and technical debt management to ensure consistent delivery and long-term platform maintainability.

Balance delivery speed, scalability, reliability, and business priorities while maintaining ownership of business-critical services.

Requirements:

At least 7 years of backend software engineering experience, with strong hands-on expertise in Java or Kotlin and Spring Boot.

Experience leading technical initiatives or providing technical guidance and leadership to other engineers.

Proven ability to design and deliver complex, distributed, production-grade systems.

Strong knowledge of microservices and event-driven architectures, including technologies such as Kafka and AWS SQS.

Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL and caching technologies such as Redis.

Background working with financially sensitive systems, such as billing, invoicing, payments, ledgers, fee calculation, or reconciliation platforms, where accuracy, consistency, auditability, and reliability are essential.

Strong architectural knowledge, including domain-driven design, hexagonal architecture, service decomposition, bounded contexts, and asynchronous communication patterns.

Demonstrated ability to own technical architecture and make sound engineering decisions while balancing scalability, reliability, delivery timelines, and business requirements.

Strong API design experience, including developing and evolving RESTful APIs, maintaining backward compatibility, and establishing reliable integration patterns.

Solid understanding of financial data integrity in distributed environments, including transactional consistency, idempotency, error recovery, and reconciliation.

Experience mentoring engineers through technical design, code reviews, problem solving, and complex delivery challenges.

A strong production ownership mindset, including experience operating business-critical systems, participating in on-call rotations, and managing incidents.

Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Micrometer.

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, and modern software delivery practices.

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, Product, Finance, and Commercial teams.