Remote Payments Platform Lead Engineer

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United States

Remote

USD 190,000 - 230,000

Full time

11 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Remote work
Career growth
Leadership opportunities
Security-focused engineering culture

Job summary

OrderYOYO seeks a Lead Software Engineer – Payments to own the payments platform, lead a team of engineers, and set the technical direction for a scalable domain across online and in-store platforms. You will shape money flows from authorisation to invoicing while growing the engineering team and ensuring reliability and security.

You will partner with Product, Legal, Finance, and Support to deliver production-ready systems, with a hands-on leadership style and a focus on high-quality software

Qualifications

  • Proven experience leading and growing a payments engineering team.
  • Strong backend background in distributed systems and microservices.
  • Production experience with payment flows (auth/capture/refund) and idempotency patterns.
  • Solid security mindset: PCI, PII, secrets management, least privilege.
  • Comfortable in an Azure-first environment with CI/CD and automated testing.
  • Clear, confident communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders in high-stakes scenarios.
  • Good judgement balancing speed, standardisation, and business priorities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of payments engineers with hands-on guidance.
  • Own hiring and team-building for the payments engineering function.
  • Conduct 1:1s, goal-setting, performance reviews, and career progression conversations.
  • Build a culture of shared payments knowledge and design reviews.
  • Translate business needs into technical strategy and team priorities.
  • Balance hands-on coding with people-management to unblock the team.

Skills

People leadership
Backend engineering
Payments experience
Security mindset
Azure familiarity
Communication skills
Judgement and decision making

Tools

Azure

Job description

OrderYOYO seeks a Lead Software Engineer – Payments to own the payments platform, lead a team of engineers, and set the technical direction for a scalable domain across online and in-store platforms. You will shape money flows from authorisation to invoicing while growing the engineering team and ensuring reliability and security.

You will partner with Product, Legal, Finance, and Support to deliver production-ready systems, with a hands-on leadership style and a focus on high-quality software

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