Tech Lead – Payments and Billing
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Tech Lead scaling Payments and Billing services for tem’s AI-powered energy transaction platform. Setting architecture, reducing processing costs, and coaching a high-performance engineering squad.
Responsibilities:
- Own the Payments squad's delivery outcomes and engineering standards
- Write specifications and design documents
- Provide feedback on ADRs and review pull requests
- Solve difficult technical problems through code or workflows
- Set the architecture direction for the payments service
- Own payment accuracy and processing efficiency to reduce processing costs
- Define the squad's operating model and pace
- Manage sequencing and dependencies
- Diagnose throughput issues and make squad work visible to stakeholders
- Coach junior engineers while collaborating with the senior engineer on difficult problems
- Identify promotion and hiring gaps jointly with the manager
- Report to the Service Manager for Saldo
Requirements:
- Track record as a tech lead owning a squad's delivery and standards
- Experience writing design documents, reviewing pull requests and ADRs, and solving problems hands-on while 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, balancing speed, quality, and resilience
- Experience owning cross-team sequencing and dependencies
- Experience diagnosing throughput problems
- Comfort setting technical direction in ambiguous areas
- 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 taking a service from a basic first version to something built for scale (desirable)
- Fluent English speaking, reading, and writing
Benefits:
- Stock options so everyone has ownership in our mission
- 25 days holiday plus public holidays
- Ability 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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