Engineering Lead/Manager

Wymagania:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building backend or full-stack systems, and 2+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience leading software engineering teams.- Strong experience designing, building, and operating high-scale distributed systems in production, including systems processing high volumes of transactions, events, or financial data.- Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including asynchronous processing, idempotency, retries and failure recovery, concurrency, data consistency, transactional integrity, and fault tolerance.- Strong understanding of relational databases, data modeling, transactions, and database performance, along with experience designing and operating APIs and service-oriented architectures.- Experience with event-driven or queue-based architectures such as SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies, and operating systems in AWS or another major cloud platform.- Strong understanding of testing strategies, observability, monitoring, alerting, and production incident management for complex, business-critical systems.- Ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and make pragmatic decisions that balance speed, quality, scalability, and maintainability.- Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across Engineering, Product, and business teams, and a track record of developing engineers and building teams with high ownership and strong engineering standards.- Experience building or operating payments, fintech, banking, accounting, or other financial transaction systems is highly valued- Experience scaling systems through periods of rapid product and business growth, including incrementally modernizing established production systems, would be valuable.- Familiarity with PHP, JavaScript or Node.js/TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), and AWS SQS would be a plus.- Exposure to security, compliance, or audit requirements within financial systems would be an advantage.

Codzienne zadania:
- Lead and develop a team of full-stack engineers, creating a high-performing environment with clear ownership and accountability
- Own the technical execution and engineering quality of the payments platform
- Partner closely with Product to translate business and product requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Help define and evolve the architecture and technical direction of a high-scale distributed payments system
- Ensure systems are designed for correctness, reliability, scalability, resilience, and maintainability
- Establish a high engineering bar around code quality, testing, observability, deployment, and operational readiness
- Guide engineers through complex technical decisions involving distributed systems, databases, APIs, asynchronous workflows, and third-party integrations
- Drive improvements to system performance, reliability, monitoring, and incident prevention
- Ensure appropriate safeguards exist around payment processing, including idempotency, retries, failure handling, reconciliation, and data consistency
- Lead technical planning and help the team balance new feature development, scalability improvements, and technical debt
- Participate in architecture discussions and code/design reviews, especially for high-risk or business-critical changes
- Own and continuously improve the team's development and delivery processes
- Partner with other engineering teams on shared services, integrations, and platform initiatives
- Support production systems and help establish strong incident response, root-cause analysis, and follow-up practices
- Coach and mentor engineers, provide regular feedback, and support their technical and career growth
- Help hire and onboard engineers as the Payments team grows
- Drive the adoption of AI-powered development tools such as Cursor, Claude, and similar technologies to improve engineering velocity and quality
- Help the team use AI throughout the software development lifecycle, including desig