Payments Technical Lead

Payments Technical Lead
About the Role
Were looking for a hands-on Payments Technical Lead to architect build and scale the
payment infrastructure that powers our eCommerce platform. You'll lead a cross-
functional engineering team across backend and frontend own the technical roadmap
for our payments stack and drive integrations with payment gateways fraud tools and
financial partners. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives at the intersection
of clean architecture reliable systems and real-world money movement.
Main duties/responsibilities will include:
Lead the design development and deployment of payment services built on
Spring Boot and following microservices best practices
Own end-to-end Stripe integrations across checkout subscriptions Connect
webhooks refunds disputes and reconciliation flows
Architect scalable secure PCI-compliant payment systems with strong
observability idempotency and failure-recovery patterns
Build and review front-end components for checkout experiences
merchant dashboards and internal payment tooling
Mentor engineers through code reviews design discussions and technical deep-
dives; set coding standards and raise the engineering bar
Collaborate closely with Product Finance Risk and Compliance teams to
translate business requirements into robust technical solutions
Drive production readiness: CI/CD pipelines monitoring alerting on-call
practices and incident response for payment-critical services
Evaluate and integrate new payment methods processors and third-party
financial services as the business expands
Key Skills and Experience required for this role:
8 years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years in a technical
leadership capacity
Strong hands-on development experience with Spring Boot and Java-based
microservices architectures
Proficiency with for building high-performance backend services and
APIs

Solid frontend experience with including state management
component design and modern tooling
Proven experience integrating eCommerce applications with Stripe including
Payment Intents Stripe Elements webhooks Connect and subscription billing
Deep understanding of RESTful APIs event-driven architectures message
queues (Kafka RabbitMQ or similar) and relational/NoSQL databases
Familiarity with PCI-DSS requirements tokenization 3D Secure SCA and
secure handling of sensitive financial data
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure) containerization (Docker
Kubernetes) and CI/CD tooling
Strong grasp of distributed systems concepts: idempotency eventual
consistency retries circuit breakers and graceful degradation
Nice to Have:
Experience with additional payment providers (Braintree PayPal)
Background working with ledgers double-entry accounting or financial
reconciliation systems
Exposure to fraud prevention tools chargeback management and payment
analytics
Contributions to open-source projects or technical writing/speaking in the
payments or fintech space