About the Role
Role details below.
Responsibilities
- Manages a cross-functional team of engineers by conducting activities such as periodic feedback, one-to-one sessions, performance evaluations, and preparing individual development plans for direct reports.
- Helps manage resources within the team, assigns tasks, and ensures a balanced workload among engineers.
- Personally engages in product development, writing and reviewing code, and delivering periodic product improvements.
- Leads the development of the in-house fintech platform with a focus on performance, scalability, and security.
- Builds and manages complex payment API integrations with banks, PSPs, and third-party services.
- Participates in agile ceremonies (Scrum/Kanban) to ensure team alignment and adherence to agile best practices.
- Improves platform quality by refactoring code, identifying and resolving technical debt, and optimizing architecture for high-load integrations.
- Creates solution designs and determines technical implementations for product changes, specifically regarding microservices and messaging systems.
- Supports Engineering Managers in creating new guidelines and ensuring domain knowledge of payment flows is well documented.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 8+ years of professional experience in IT, with 3+ years in leadership positions.
- 2+ years of experience in Fintech, banking, or financial systems (experience with real-money transactions is highly preferred).
- 3+ years of commercial experience with Node.js & React and strong proficiency in TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience with RabbitMQ, Redis, MySQL, and MongoDB.
- Expert knowledge of REST, GraphQL, and WebSockets for secure financial integrations.
- Experience with Kubernetes, microservices architecture, and secure development practices.
- Advanced level of English.
Benefits
- Learning and development opportunities and interesting, challenging tasks.
- Relocation package (tickets, staying in a hotel for up to 2 weeks, and visa relocation support for our employees and their family members).
- Opportunity to develop language skills, with partial compensation for the cost of English and Portuguese language classes (for localization purposes).
- Partial compensation for tennis and padel lessons.
- Urban Sport membership benefit (the most diverse sports and wellness offering in Europe, with more than 50+ activities).
- Private medical coverage, including inpatient, outpatient, dental care, annual check-ups, and maternity support.
- 24 non-business days per year and an additional 6 paid sick days.
- Transport compensation - 200 euros net per month.
- Competitive remuneration level with annual review.
- Teambuilding activities.
Compensation
Competitive remuneration level with annual review
Work Arrangement
On-site
Team
Structure: Reports to Engineering Managers
Additional Information
- This is an on-site position based at our office in the Lisbon Metropolitan area.
- Remote or hybrid arrangements are not available once you join the team.
- Candidates must be either already based in Lisbon or eager to relocate to Portugal.
- Full relocation support and visa sponsorship for successful international candidates.
- Relocation package includes tickets, hotel stay for up to 2 weeks, and visa relocation support for employees and their family members.
- Partial compensation for English and Portuguese language classes.
- Partial compensation for tennis and padel lessons.
- Urban Sport membership benefit with over 50+ activities.
- Private medical coverage includes inpatient, outpatient, dental care, annual check-ups, and maternity support.
- 24 non-business days per year and 6 paid sick days.
- Transport compensation of 200 euros net per month.
- Teambuilding activities are offered.
Visa sponsorship available
