Research & Development Team Lead (Backend)

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 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.

Location:
Gurugram - India

Hybrid

Full-time

What you'll do:

• Collaborate closely with Product, Design/UX, DevOps, and other R&D teams.
• 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.

Who you are:

• 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.)
• 3+ years of managerial experience, leading development of customer-facing products– a must
• 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.

Not a Must But a Great Advantage

• Experience with Redis or alike.
• Experience with ORM such as Entity Framework.
• Experience in building SaaS platforms in a cloud-based/hybrid environment.

Who We Are
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.

The Payoneer Ways of Working
Act as our customer's partner on the inside
Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further.
Do it. Own it.
Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do.
Continuously improve
Always striving for a higher standard than our last.
Build Each Other Up
Helping each other grow, as professionals and people.
If this sounds like a business, a community, and a mission you want to be part of, apply today.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. Payoneer is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment no matter your race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please speak to the recruiter managing the role for any adjustments. Decisions about requests for reasonable accommodation are made on a case-by-case basis.