Remote Staff Engineer, Cloud-Native Payments Platform Lead

Paymentology; Lisboa; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Global team

Career path to Principal Engineer

Job summary

Paymentology is seeking a Staff Engineer to shape the technical direction of a globally distributed payments platform. You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions and lead cross-team initiatives to deliver reliable, scalable systems at global scale.

Join a company that values engineering excellence, accountability and collaboration, with remote-friendly policies and opportunities to advance toward Principal Engineer as you impact multiple markets and functions.

Qualifications

• Extensive backend architecture and systems design experience.
• Proven track record leading large technical initiatives across teams.
• Strong understanding of software design, system architecture and engineering fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical strategy for significant engineering domains or cross-team initiatives.
• Shape architectures that meet long-term product and business needs.
• Evaluate trade-offs and communicate evidence-based recommendations.
• Mentor senior engineers and develop leadership and system-design capabilities.
• Lead cross-team initiatives to improve overall engineering capability.
• Raise testing, observability, code quality, and operational readiness.

Skills

Backend architecture

Java expertise

Cloud computing AWS

Microservices

Event-driven design

CI/CD & IaC

Observability & testing

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

English fluency

Tools

AWS

Job description

Paymentology is seeking a Staff Engineer to shape the technical direction of a globally distributed payments platform. You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions and lead cross-team initiatives to deliver reliable, scalable systems at global scale.

Join a company that values engineering excellence, accountability and collaboration, with remote-friendly policies and opportunities to advance toward Principal Engineer as you impact multiple markets and functions.