Senior Software Engineer – Team Lead
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Senior Software Engineer leading a cross-functional engineering team at Dev.Pro. Focusing on high-performance backend solutions for a payment orchestration platform while collaborating with client stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend components in Perl, integrated with C-based core systems
- Build mapping, customization, and business logic layers to interface with client, gateway, and host systems
- Own end-to-end feature delivery, including automated testing (Java-based frameworks), code quality, and performance stability
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and release processes as part of delivery ownership
- Build and integrate observability and monitoring features to ensure low-latency and self-recovering system operations
- Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver features from requirements to production and monitoring
- Work with client stakeholders to clarify requirements, align expectations, and help resolve technical issues
Requirements:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience leading cross-functional teams of 6+ engineers, or strong tech leadership experience, with readiness to move into people leadership
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills, with direct client-facing experience and ability to work effectively across diverse, cross-cultural teams
- Ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, align teams, and bring clarity in ambiguous situations
- Demonstrated end-to-end delivery ownership, with a proactive, accountable mindset
- Ability to organize work, manage priorities, and remove delivery blockers
- Experience in Agile environments with exposure to modern engineering practices (automated testing, CI/CD, code reviews)
- Experience delivering high-performance, reliable backend systems in mission-critical, high-throughput environments
- Strong understanding of APIs, system integration, and abstraction layers
- Hands-on experience with Perl, C, or Java, or a strong willingness to quickly learn Perl
- Upper-Intermediate English level
- Willingness to travel to our Zagreb office (twice per quarter)
Benefits:
- 30 paid days off per year — take them whenever you want for vacation, holidays, or personal time
- 5 paid sick days, up to 60 days of medical leave, and 6 paid days off per year for major family events like weddings, funerals, or the birth of a child
- Partially covered health insurance after the probation, plus a wellness bonus for gym memberships, sports nutrition, and similar needs after 6 months
- Grow your skills with English lessons, online training, conferences, and the option to explore new career paths




















