Lead Engineer - AI Payments App

Role overview A hands-on technical leadership role focused on an AI-driven payments application within a fast-scaling consumer fintech. The position involves designing systems, writing and reviewing code, guiding engineers, and driving major initiatives from idea to production. The role spans architecture and implementation, making strong technical decisions while staying close enough to the code to execute when needed, and raises the engineering bar across the team.

Responsibilities - Lead the technical design and execution of major products, features, and engineering initiatives for the AI payments app. - Design scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure. - Stay hands-on through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging, and production problem-solving. - Make architecture decisions and technical trade-offs that balance speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability. - Break ambiguous product and technical problems into clear engineering solutions and execution plans. - Set a high bar for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability, and production reliability. - Review technical designs and code from other engineers and provide clear, actionable feedback. - Mentor engineers and help strengthen technical capability across the team. - Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural weaknesses before they escalate. - Own systems beyond release, including monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, and ongoing reliability improvements.

Requirements - Strong software engineering background with significant experience building and shipping production systems. - Deep technical expertise in one or more areas such as backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure. - Strong system design and architecture skills with experience making technical decisions for complex or high-scale systems. - Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on. - Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers. - Comfortable reviewing code, debugging complex issues, and working directly with production systems. - Strong product sense and ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes. - Able to work fast with ambiguity and take ownership from problem definition through production. - Strong judgment around when to move quickly, when to simplify, and when deeper engineering investment is required. - Strong English communication skills for a globally distributed team.

Benefits and work setup - Fully remote role hiring globally, with collaboration across multiple countries and time zones. - Fast interview process—online assessment or practical task, technical interview, and a final round—often completed within about one week for strong candidates.