Staff Engineer, Payroll Platform Architect & Leader

Deel; Venezia; Hybrid; EUR 160,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

WeWork access

Country-based perks

Equal opportunity employer

Total rewards discussion

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Deel is seeking a Senior Tech Lead for US Payroll to architect and scale an enterprise-grade platform serving SMBs to large enterprises. You will partner with engineering leadership to shape architecture, drive key technical decisions, and uphold engineering excellence.

You will mentor engineers and reinforce a high-performance culture that enables fast growth. You will work across teams to implement跨-cutting improvements, migrations, and bottleneck elimination, shaping the future of global

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proven leadership in organizations with 30+ engineers.
• Strong system design and architecture skills.
• Excellence in technical communication and documentation.
• Mentorship history and coaching of senior engineers.
• Cross-functional collaboration across product, design, and engineering.
• Experience establishing scalable engineering processes and metrics.

Responsibilities

• Act as principal technical advisor and architect for critical initiatives aligning with business goals.
• Drive technical decision-making and architecture reviews to balance delivery and long-term health.
• Represent engineering leadership in planning with product and design for cross-product alignment.
• Implement engineering best practices and scalable processes to boost velocity and quality.
• Establish metrics/KPIs, drive post-mortems, and reduce organizational friction.
• Mentor senior engineers and tech leads, enabling career development and hiring standards.
• Bridge engineering with wider leadership to influence strategy across multiple teams and product areas.

Skills

Leadership experience

Architectural leadership

Mentorship

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

System design

Engineering processes

Job description

Deel is seeking a Senior Tech Lead for US Payroll to architect and scale an enterprise-grade platform serving SMBs to large enterprises. You will partner with engineering leadership to shape architecture, drive key technical decisions, and uphold engineering excellence.

You will mentor engineers and reinforce a high-performance culture that enables fast growth. You will work across teams to implement跨-cutting improvements, migrations, and bottleneck elimination, shaping the future of global