Senior Staff Engineer – Payments
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Senior Staff Engineer leading Payments for tem, an AI-native energy transaction infrastructure company. Setting architecture, improving payment efficiency, and scaling the Billing and Payments Service.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the first tech lead for the new Payments squad within Saldo, tem's Billing and Payments Service
- Own the squad's delivery outcomes and engineering standards
- Write specifications and design documents
- Review ADRs and pull requests
- Solve complex technical problems through code and workflows
- Set the architecture direction for the payments service
- Define the squad's operating model and balance speed, quality, and resilience
- Improve payment accuracy and processing efficiency to reduce cost-to-process
- Manage sequencing and dependencies across teams
- Diagnose throughput issues and make squad work visible to stakeholders
- Coach junior engineers and collaborate with the senior engineer on difficult problems
- Flag promotion and hiring gaps to the Service Manager; jointly make people decisions
Requirements:
- Track record as a tech lead owning a squad's delivery and standards
- Track record writing design docs, reviewing PRs and ADRs, solving problems hands-on, and setting direction
- Ability to balance hands-on work on major technical challenges with coaching junior engineers
- Experience designing a team's ways of working from scratch while balancing speed, quality, and resilience
- Experience owning cross-team sequencing and dependencies
- Experience diagnosing throughput problems
- Ability to set technical direction through ambiguity
- Experience driving technical blockers to resolution
- Experience with payments systems (desirable)
- Experience improving cost-to-process or processing efficiency in a high-volume service (desirable)
- Experience scaling a service beyond its basic first version (desirable)
- Fluent English speaking, reading, and writing
Benefits:
- Stock options so everyone has ownership in our mission
- 25 days holiday plus public holidays
- Option to swap public holidays for preferred holidays
- Birthday off
- Remote first and flexible working
- Clear core hours
- No internal meetings on Friday afternoons
- Up to GBP1,200 or EUR1,200 per year for remote setup
- Up to GBP150 or EUR150 per month for wellbeing
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