Global Staff Software Engineer - Architect & Leader

Tutuka; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Paymentology is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across multiple teams and engineering domains. You’ll shape technical strategy, guide architectural decisions, and help teams build reliable, scalable systems powering millions of payments daily.

You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Operations to establish standards, mentor senior engineers, and drive initiatives that improve testing, observability, and operational excellence, while delivering

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Typically 10+ years of experience designing and delivering complex distributed systems.
• Experience shaping technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and delivering cloud-native software at scale.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy across engineering domains and cross-team initiatives.
• Shape scalable architectures that support Paymentology's long-term product and business goals.
• Translate complex technical challenges into clear, practical solutions.
• Establish engineering standards, architectural patterns, and best practices across teams.
• Identify and mitigate long-term risks around reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Operations to influence technical roadmaps and delivery.
• Mentor senior engineers and strengthen technical leadership across the organisation.
• Lead initiatives that improve engineering quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
• Contribute hands-on to critical systems where your expertise delivers the greatest impact.

Skills

Distributed backend

Software architecture

System design

Microservices

APIs

Event-driven

AWS

CI/CD

IaC

Observability

Automated testing

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/IT or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

Paymentology is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across multiple teams and engineering domains. You’ll shape technical strategy, guide architectural decisions, and help teams build reliable, scalable systems powering millions of payments daily.

You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Operations to establish standards, mentor senior engineers, and drive initiatives that improve testing, observability, and operational excellence, while delivering