Team Leader Cloud Modernization

About Payoneer

Founded in 2005 Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders with a mission to connect the worlds underserved businesses to a rising global economy. Were a community with over 2500 colleagues all over the world working to serve customers and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflowsincluding everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management to providing working capital and business intelligencewe give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Location:

Hybrid Full-time.

What youll do

You will lead a Cloud Modernization Commando an elite team a high-impact engineering unit focused on accelerating cloud modernization across the R&D teams in the organization. The team operates as a force multiplier taking on complex high-prioritized and high-value cloud initiatives that require deep technical expertise fast execution and cross-team influence.

You will lead the full cycle from the front designing building and validating modern cloud patterns unblocking critical initiatives and setting technical direction that other teams can confidently adopt. It is not a long-term feature delivery team and stakeholders change per mission yet its a mission-driven squad that engages where impact is highest establishes momentum and then hands over ownership to product teams.

Who you are

You are a seasoned hands-on engineering leader with a proven ability to create clarity drive momentum and take ownership in fast-moving complex environments. You excel at breaking down ambiguous problems aligning stakeholders and moving initiatives from concept to execution with urgency and focus.

You bring deep cloud and architectural expertise balancing strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery. You know when to design scalable long-term patterns and when to deliver targeted tactical solutions that unblock teams and accelerate progress across the organization.

You thrive in cross-team environments earning trust influencing without authority and collaborating closely with product architecture security and infrastructure groups to ensure alignment adoption and sustained impact.

Skills you are bringing with you

4 years as Team Lead or Tech Lead

6 years of experience with backend development preferably C# and

6 years of experience with advanced SQL (MSSQL/MySQL/PostgreSQL etc.)

4 years of experience with NoSQL database preferably MongoDB

Experience with building SaaS platforms for cloud-based products preferably AWS

Experience with Containers and Kubernetes (K8s) preferably EKS

Experience with Event-Driven Architecture

Experience with Message Brokers such as RabbitMQ/SQS/Kafka preferably Kafka

Experience with Microservices development

Experience with AI tools for leveraging team velocity & quality

B.S. in computer science or equivalent

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