Senior Software Lead Engineer

Senior Payments Software Lead Engineer

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Regular or Temporary: Regular

Language Fluency: English (Required)

Work Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

The Senior Payments Software Engineer is a senior-level engineering team lead responsible for delivering highly complex, scalable software solutions with a focus on payment systems and large-scale transaction processing. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong technical leadership, guiding engineering teams through architecture, design, and implementation phases. The ideal candidate is a hands‑on engineer with a proven track record in AWS cloud‑native development, distributed systems, and modern software engineering practices.

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of highly scalable and resilient software systems, particularly in the payments and financial transaction domain.
• Architect cloud‑native solutions using AWS services, ensuring performance, security, and operational excellence.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and accountability.
• Collaborate with product owners, architects, and cross‑functional teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Drive Agile best practices, including story refinement, test‑driven development, CI/CD automation, and Dev Sec Ops  integration.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across the stack, from infrastructure to application logic.
• Champion engineering excellence through code reviews, design reviews, and hands‑on development.
• Contribute to the evolution of system architecture and engineering standards across the organization.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 1. Bachelors degree and eight to twelve years of experience as a developer or equivalent education and related training or experience
• 2. Deep specialized and/or broad functional knowledge
• 3. Sound understanding of business and organizational strategies and processes
• 4. Ability to interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices
• 5. Ability to lead complex projects
• 6. Sophisticated analytical skills and the ability to solve complex technical and business problems
• 7. Ability to influence others at senior levels to adopt a new perspective

• Masters degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a technical leadership or team lead role.
• Deep expertise in payment systems, transaction processing, and financial services platforms.
• Strong architectural background with experience designing distributed systems and event‑driven architectures.
• Advanced proficiency in AWS services (e.g., Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, Dynamo
  
  DB, API Gateway, Cloud Formation).
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns.
• Experience with messaging systems (e.g., MQ, JMS, Kafka) and relational/non‑relational databases.
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Git, Jenkins, Maven, and Terraform.
• Excellent communication skills and…