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.

Role summary

We’re looking for a Team Leader 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.

Location: Gurgaon-India

Hybrid - Full time

What You’ll Do

Team Collaboration and Inter-team Coordination: Be part of a Enterprise group working together; collaborate effectively with your team and cross-functional teams, including Architects, DevOps, SRE, and R&D;, to ensure seamless communication and workflow.

Leadership and Team Goals: Assume a leadership role in achieving team objectives, contributing to the design, architecture, development, quality, and production deployment of the team’s systems.

Backend Solutions: Design and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable backend solutions for complex scenarios, ensuring high-quality output that can be utilized by other teams.

Project Planning: Translate high-level business goals into actionable project plans for the team.

Engineering Practices: Maintain and enhance the team's engineering practices by suggesting and implementing technological improvements and process enhancements.

Process Improvement: Identify and proactively address areas for improvement in team systems,



processes, and scalability.

Code Quality: Lead by example in code quality, significantly contributing to code reviews and serving as a focal point for engineering excellence.

Production Monitoring: Oversee production systems, investigate potential issues, and lead efforts to resolve critical challenges while maintaining a customer-centric approach.

Technical Expertise: Leverage deep, hands-on technical expertise in infrastructure, with a strong understanding of building and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure systems.

Leadership Under Pressure: Exhibit calm and effective leadership in diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues under pressure.

Who You Are

Experience: 10+ years as a server-side developer using Java, C# and .NET, along with REST APIs.

Database Proficiency: 5+ years of experience with SQL (MSSQL/Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL, etc.).

Observability: 2+ years with observability systems (e.g., Dynatrace, Grafana, Coralogix).

Managerial Background: Over 3 years of managerial experience in leading customer facing product development- essential.

Messaging Knowledge: Experience with messaging queues or streams such as RabbitMQ, SQS, or Kafka.

OOP & Design Patterns: Broad knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming and design patterns.

Best Practices: Familiarity with engineering best practices (unit tests, code reviews, test coverage, agile methodologies).

Teamwork: A strong team player with a passion for managing and nurturing talent.

Ambition: Eager to learn and grow in the field.

Education: B.E./BS in Computer Science or an equivalent degree.

Good to have

Familiarity with Kubernetes.

Practical experience with Agile development methodologies.

Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).

Familiarity with non-relational databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).

Experience mentoring new hires and interns, fostering a culture of collaboration and best practices.

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