Staff Engineer & Platform Architect, US Payroll (Remote)

Deel; Puglia; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

WeWork access

country-based perks

Equal opportunity employer

Total rewards and benefits

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’ll partner with the Director of Engineering to shape architecture, drive key technical decisions, and uphold engineering excellence.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive cross-cutting improvements, and help scale velocity and quality. This remote-friendly role offers WeWork access and country-based perks as part of a competitive total rewards package.

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.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale an enterprise-grade payroll platform.
• Partner with the Director of Engineering to shape architecture and drive decisions.
• Implement cross-cutting improvements, migrations, and bottleneck elimination.
• Mentor engineers and reinforce a high-performance culture.
• Represent engineering leadership in product/design planning for alignment.
• Establish metrics, drive post-mortems, and reduce friction across teams.

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership

System design

Technical communication

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Engineering at scale

Architecture

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’ll partner with the Director of Engineering to shape architecture, drive key technical decisions, and uphold engineering excellence.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive cross-cutting improvements, and help scale velocity and quality. This remote-friendly role offers WeWork access and country-based perks as part of a competitive total rewards package.