Engineering Lead, Payments

Lovable; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Lovable in Stockholm is seeking an Engineering Lead to build and scale our payments infrastructure. You will shape architecture, implement critical payment flows, and guide a small team through global growth.

Deep experience with payments processing, recurring billing, and reliability is essential. You will partner with Payments, Product, Finance, and Operations to improve payment success and reduce losses.

Qualifications

• Built production payments infrastructure at scale.
• Experience with payment processing and recurring billing.
• Strong judgment in distributed systems, idempotency, and failure recovery.

Responsibilities

• Build critical payment systems from design to production.
• Set technical direction and review code with the team.
• Own reliability: observability, retries, and scale.
• Lead engineering delivery and ship high-quality systems.
• Align engineering with business outcomes across Payments, Product, Finance, and Operations.

Skills

Payments infrastructure

Distributed systems

Leadership

Architectural design

Observability

Tools

Golang

Rust

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloud services

Job description

TL;DR: We're looking for an experienced Engineering Lead to build and scale Lovable's payments infrastructure. You've built payment systems at scale before. You'll shape the architecture, develop critical payment capabilities, and guide the team through the technical challenges of global growth.

Why Lovable?

Lovable is the software creation platform that gives people the power to act on the problems closest to them. For decades, turning an idea into software required so much capital, technical fluency, and time that many ideas never came to life. Lovable is the counterargument: a platform for all people with ideas, ambition, and problems worth solving. From solopreneurs to small business owners to teams at companies like Adidas and Zendesk, people have built over 60 million projects on Lovable since its launch in November 2024. And we're just getting started.

We're building a generational company from Stockholm, with growing teams in London, Boston, New York, and San Francisco. Our team is small, talent-dense, and moving quickly, with a culture rooted in extreme ownership, high velocity, and low-ego collaboration. We look for people who care deeply, ship fast, and are eager to make a dent in the world.

Lovable is one of TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies and has been recognized on the Forbes AI 50 and CNBC Disruptor 50, reflecting our momentum as one of Europe's fastest-growing AI companies and one of the most ambitious places to build in this next era of software.

What we're looking for

• A proven track record of personally building and scaling production payments infrastructure, from architecture through implementation and ongoing operations.
• Deep experience with payment processing, recurring billing, provider integrations, and reconciliation.
• Excellent judgment in distributed systems, including financial correctness, idempotency, consistency, and failure recovery.
• Experience leading engineers through complex architectural decisions, migrations, and production incidents.
• An engineering leader with the technical depth and judgment to simplify complex systems and raise the quality of the team's decisions.

What you'll do

• Build critical systems. Design and implement payment flows, recurring billing, and provider integrations, taking projects from initial design through production.
• Set the technical direction. Guide architectural decisions, create and review code, and work closely with the team on the most challenging problems.
• Own reliability. Investigate production issues, improve observability, and strengthen how our systems handle failures, retries, and scale.
• Lead engineering delivery. Turn complex problems into clear plans, coach engineers, and take responsibility for shipping and operating high-quality systems.
• Connect engineering to business outcomes. Work with Payments, Product, Finance, and Operations to improve payment success, reduce losses, and support global growth.

Our tech stack

We're building with tools that both humans and AI love. Lovable software engineers are capable of working across the whole stack. Examples of tech in our stack include:

• Frontend: React and Typescript.
• Backend: Golang and Rust.
• Cloud: Cloudflare, GCP, AWS.
• Data: Clickhouse, Firestore, Spanner, BigQuery.
• DevOps & Tooling: CI/CD pipelines, OTEL, Kubernetes, Terraform.

And always on the lookout for what's next!

About your application

Please submit your application in English. It's our company language, so you'll be speaking lots of it if you join.

Tell us about payments infrastructure you've built: your technical ownership, the scale, the hardest trade-offs, and how it performed in production.

We treat all candidates equally. If you're interested, please apply through our careers portal.