RandD Team Leader

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 world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 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 workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Payoneer (NASDAQ: PAYO) is the world’s go-to partner for digital commerce, everywhere. From borderless payments to boundless growth, Payoneer promises any business, in any market, the technology, connections and confidence to participate and flourish in the new global economy. Powering growth for customers ranging from aspiring entrepreneurs in emerging markets to the world’s leading brands, Payoneer offers a universe of opportunities, open to you.

Payoneer’s mission is to empower anyone, anywhere to participate and succeed in the global economy. If our mission connects with your values, if you revel in solving complex challenges, and if you want to continuously advance your career, come realize your potential at Payoneer!

Life at Payoneer is a global community, where you’ll work with colleagues all over the world, in a hybrid or remote work frame. As an equal opportunity employer, the only things that matter to us are your skills, your drive, and your desire to have a positive impact on others.

About The Role

We’re looking for a Backend Team Lead who is a tech-enthusiast with a drive for excellence, and an out-of-the-box mindset to satisfy business needs in a complex payment solution environment.

What you’ll be spending your time on: 

• Collaborate closely with Product, Design/UX, DevOps, and other R&D teams.
• 50% hands on design and development
• Lead an autonomous team of software engineers who are working closely with product management to achieve business goals.
• Put special focus on developing the team. 
• Provide technical authority to your team by demonstrating a hands-on leadership style.
• Be responsible for the overall design, development, architecture, code quality, and production environment deployment of your team. 
  
  

• 5 + years of experience as a server-side developer, using C#  or any OOP Language, REST APIs, webhooks, and asynchronous communication with Queues/Streams (RabbitMQ and Kafka).
• 3+ years of experience with SQL (MSSQL/Oracle/MySql/PostgreSQL etc.).
• 2+ years experience with observability systems (Dynatrace, Grafana, etc.)
• 1+ years of managerial experience, leading development of customer-facing products– a must!
• Has built and scaled multi agent architectures in production
• Experience with messaging queues or streams such as RabbitMQ/SQS/Kafka.
• Broad knowledge of OOP and design patterns.
• Experience with Microservices.
• Experience in engineering best practices (writing unit test, code-reviews, testing coverage, agile methodologies).
• Team player attitude and mentality.
• Experienced and passionate about managing and growing people.
• Ambitious and eager to learn new things.
• B.E / BS in computer science or equivalent degree.