Tech Lead - Payments and Billing

Jobgether SRL; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first working

Stock options

25 days annual leave

Flexible public holidays

Birthday off

Remote-work allowance

Job summary

Jobgether SRL is seeking a Tech Lead to own the Payments squad's delivery outcomes and define the technical direction for a scalable payments platform. You will write design specs, review architecture decisions, and contribute hands-on to complex challenges while mentoring junior engineers.

The role emphasizes remote-first collaboration, cross-team coordination, and balancing fast delivery with reliability and maintainability in a high-volume payments environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Tech Lead or equivalent technical leader with ownership of a team’s delivery outcomes and engineering standards.
• Strong track record of leading from the front, including writing design documents, reviewing PRs and architecture decisions, and solving complex technical challenges hands-on.
• Ability to balance direct contribution to major technical problems with coaching and developing less experienced engineers.
• Experience establishing a team’s engineering practices and ways of working from the ground up, balancing speed, quality, reliability, and resilience.
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-team sequencing and dependencies and diagnose underlying causes of delivery or throughput problems.
• Strong judgment in ambiguous environments to establish technical direction without complete requirements.
• Proven ability to drive technical blockers through to resolution and maintain momentum toward delivery.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to influence engineers, product stakeholders, and leadership.
• Experience with payments systems is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall delivery outcomes of the Payments squad, ensuring reliable, high-quality software and strong engineering standards.
• Set the technical and architectural direction for the payments domain to scale the service.
• Lead from the front by writing technical specifications, reviewing architecture decisions, and contributing to implementation.
• Solve complex technical problems alongside the engineering team while maintaining a long-term technical vision.
• Establish the squad’s operating model and optimal ways of working balancing speed with quality and resilience.
• Drive improvements in payment accuracy and processing efficiency as volumes grow.
• Identify and resolve blockers to prevent delays in delivery.
• Manage technical sequencing, dependencies, and priorities while keeping progress visible to stakeholders.
• Diagnose throughput issues and implement structural improvements.
• Coach junior engineers and raise engineering quality and speed across the squad.

Skills

Tech leadership

Hands-on engineering

Architecture decisions

Cross-team coordination

Mentoring juniors

Payments systems knowledge

Strong communication

Job description

Accountabilities:

- Own the overall delivery outcomes of the Payments squad, ensuring the team consistently delivers reliable, high-quality software and maintains strong engineering standards.

- Set the technical and architectural direction for the payments domain, transforming an existing functional service into infrastructure designed for significant future scale.

- Lead from the front by writing technical specifications and design documents, reviewing architecture decision records and pull requests, and contributing directly to implementation.

- Solve the most complex technical problems alongside the engineering team while maintaining a clear long-term technical vision.

- Establish the squad’s operating model, defining effective ways of working and balancing delivery speed with quality, resilience, and maintainability.

- Drive improvements in payment accuracy and processing efficiency , with a direct focus on reducing the cost of processing transactions as volumes increase.

- Identify and resolve technical blockers that could prevent the squad from delivering effectively, rather than simply escalating or reporting them.

- Manage technical sequencing, cross-team dependencies, and delivery priorities while ensuring the squad’s progress and challenges remain visible to relevant stakeholders.

- Diagnose throughput and delivery issues, identify their underlying causes, and implement structural improvements.

- Coach junior engineers and work closely with senior engineers to raise technical quality, development speed, and engineering consistency across the squad.

- Define and communicate what good engineering looks like through hands‑on collaboration, design reviews, code reviews, and continuous feedback.

- Partner with management on hiring and promotion decisions by identifying capability gaps and providing technical input, while formal people management remains with the designated manager.

Requirements:

- Proven experience as a Tech Lead or equivalent technical leader , with ownership of a team’s delivery outcomes and engineering standards.

- Strong track record of leading from the front line, including writing design documents, reviewing pull requests and architecture decisions, and solving complex technical challenges hands‑on.

- Ability to balance direct contribution to major technical problems with coaching and developing less experienced engineers.

- Experience establishing a team’s engineering practices and ways of working from the ground up, with a pragmatic approach to balancing speed, quality, reliability, and resilience.

- Demonstrated ability to manage cross-team sequencing and dependencies and diagnose the underlying causes of delivery or throughput problems.

- Strong judgment in ambiguous environments, with the ability to establish technical direction without waiting for complete requirements or predefined solutions.

- Proven ability to drive technical blockers through to resolution and maintain momentum toward delivery.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence engineers, product stakeholders, and leadership.

- Experience with payments systems is highly desirable.

- Experience improving processing efficiency or cost‑to‑process within a high‑volume service is an advantage.

- Experience taking an early‑stage or basic service and evolving it into a robust, scalable production system is a strong plus.

- Comfortable working in a remote‑first, fast‑moving environment where autonomy, ownership, and pragmatic decision‑making are highly valued.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary: Attractive compensation aligned with the seniority and technical leadership scope of the role.

- Stock options: Receive equity and share in the long‑term value created by the organization.

- Generous time off: 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays.

- Flexible public holidays: Swap public holidays for days that are more meaningful to you.

- Birthday off: Enjoy an additional day away from work on your birthday.

- Remote‑first working: Work remotely with flexibility around where and how you work.

- Clear core hours: Benefit from defined collaboration windows while maintaining flexibility outside those hours.

- Meeting‑free Friday afternoons: Dedicated time for deep work, focus, and personal priorities.

- Remote‑work allowance: Up to £1,200 or €1,200 per year toward your home‑office setup.

- Wellbeing allowance: Up to £150 or €150 per month to support your health and wellbeing.

- High‑impact ownership: Shape the architecture, operating model, and engineering standards of a new payments squad.

- Hands‑on leadership: Combine technical leadership with meaningful hands‑on engineering work rather than moving entirely into management.

- Inclusive environment: Applications are welcomed from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including those traditionally underrepresented in technology and energy.