Lead Payments Engineer — Remote-Ready Fintech

Mentor Talent Acquisition; Greater London; Hybride; GBP 117 000 - 143 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health insurance

Meals provided

Travel home covered on late nights

Visa sponsorship

Birthday off

Unlimited paid sick leave

Global health insurance

Résumé du poste

Mentor Talent Acquisition is seeking a Lead Payments Engineer to own the technical direction of a high-scale payments platform in a fintech environment. You will design core components, integrate new banking partners, and influence architecture and security decisions.

You will lead a small senior team, reporting to Head of Engineering, and work in a fast-paced startup culture with hybrid London-based office presence and visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates.

Qualifications

• Experience building payments systems in fintech, banking infrastructure or crypto.
• Visible go-to person on a fintech startup/scale-up team.
• Strong distributed systems and high-availability design.
• Production experience with event-driven systems, in Go or keen to work in it.
• Comfort in a fast startup environment and owning outcomes end-to-end.
• Clear communication and knowledge sharing.
• Banking-as-a-Service or core banking integrations.
• Digital wallets, identity or fraud detection.
• PCI-DSS and AML/KYC experience.
• Temporal or similar workflow orchestration.

Responsabilités

• Design and build core components of a high-scale, low-latency payments platform.
• Integrate new banking partners and payment providers across multiple rails.
• Work across FX, peer-to-peer and internal flow-of-funds services.
• Help launch new products, including stablecoin and card offerings.
• Lead technical decisions on architecture, scalability, security and reliability.
• Build fraud prevention, detection and mitigation controls.
• Set the bar for engineering standards: testing, monitoring and continuous deployment.
• Partner with product, compliance and infrastructure to ship end to end.

Connaissances

Real-time payments

Fintech/Baking infra

Distributed systems

Security in payments

Event-driven systems (Go)

High-availability design

Communication

Banking-as-a-Service / core banking

Identity/Fraud detection

PCI-DSS & AML/KYC

Temporal/workflow orchestration

Go programming

Outils

Go

Description du poste

Mentor Talent Acquisition is seeking a Lead Payments Engineer to own the technical direction of a high-scale payments platform in a fintech environment. You will design core components, integrate new banking partners, and influence architecture and security decisions.

You will lead a small senior team, reporting to Head of Engineering, and work in a fast-paced startup culture with hybrid London-based office presence and visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates.