Staff Software Engineer — Global Payments Platform Lead

Paymentology; Dublin; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option

Global team

Engineering culture of excellence

Career progression toward Principal

Job summary

Paymentology is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the technical direction of our backend platform, focusing on reliability, scalability and developer productivity.

You will drive architectures for multi-team initiatives, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product, operations and security to deliver critical systems. This role offers remote work with global teams and opportunities to influence engineering practice across the company.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and operating backend or distributed systems.
• Proven track record leading multi-team technical initiatives.
• Strong architectural judgement and cloud experience.
• Excellent communication to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy for large engineering domains.
• Translate complex problems into clear delivery plans.
• Shape architectures to meet long-term needs.
• Mentor senior engineers and lead cross-team initiatives.
• Raise testing, observability, and incident readiness.

Skills

Technical leadership

System architecture

Java backend

Cloud AWS

Microservices

CI/CD

Observability

Mentoring engineers

Cross-team collaboration

Testing & quality

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

SQL databases

Job description

Paymentology is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the technical direction of our backend platform, focusing on reliability, scalability and developer productivity.

You will drive architectures for multi-team initiatives, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product, operations and security to deliver critical systems. This role offers remote work with global teams and opportunities to influence engineering practice across the company.