Lead Software Engineer

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer (Ruby) to join our Core Payment Engineering team, the most sensitive and business-critical part of the platform.

You’ll build and maintain mission-critical payment systems, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability for global merchants.

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Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Ruby on Rails services for payment processing
• Focus on reliability, extensibility, and correctness to ensure that merchants can accept payments seamlessly and securely
• Oversee payment configuration, authorization and refund flows, observability, correctness, and performance of critical services
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and infrastructure teams globally

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend development, with strong Ruby on Rails expertise
• Solid understanding of building and operating production-grade systems (e.g., you know your way around logs, traces, metrics, feature flags, and debug live traffic issues)
• Knowledge of Domain Driven Design and third-party API integrations (e.g., payments)
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Lightstep)
• Ability to write testable, maintainable, and clean code, and familiarity with CI/CD practices
• Product mindset and excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Payments/fintech/ecommerce experience is a strong plus

We offer

• By choosing EPAM, you're getting a job at Great Place To Work-Certified™ in 2024, Glassdoor’s Top 100 Best Places to Work in 2023 & one of Most Loved Workplace, as recognized by Newsweek, 2021 - 2023
• Employee ideas are the main driver of our business. We have a very supportive environment where your voice matters
• You will be challenged while working side-by-side with the best talent globally. We work with top-notch technologies, constantly seeking new industry trends and best practices
• We offer a transparent career path and an individual roadmap to engineer your future & accelerate your journey
• At EPAM, you can find vast opportunities for self-development: online courses and libraries, mentoring programs, partial grants of certification, and experience exchange with colleagues around the world. You will learn, contribute, and grow with us

Life at EPAM

- We are a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services that has rapidly grown in Australia since 2013.

- We adopt a global growth strategy, thinking and acting like start-ups, working in multi-disciplinary teams, and delivering results. With a multinational talented team, we have been delivering innovative solutions for cloud migration, cyber security, digital transformation, etc.  

- You will work in an open and friendly work environment where your professional skills and experience can stand out.

How We Hire

• Here, we summarize the typical journey to finding a job within EPAM.

• Apply and tell us about yourself

• Go through some standard interviews:

• - General interview with a recruiter
• - Technical interview with our technology experts
• - Manager interview or Offer interview with a hiring manager

• Get ready to join the team

• Not sure if you meet all the requirements? No problem. Let's talk anyway and find out more

• It takes 1 min of application to start the journey with us. Apply now

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