Lead Backend Engineer

About the company

Autopay Global is the newest member of the Autopay family, aiming to expand the reach of the group’s state-of-the-art payment integration and payment data technologies to the international market, providing seamless integration with local PSPs, support for multiple currencies and compliance with local frameworks. We have a very forward-looking approach to our products, we value creativity, passion and drive to leverage the newest achievements in technology to our advantage. 

To support our dynamic expansion, we are looking for a new Lead Backend Engineer. 

About the role

Lead Backend Engineer is a leader of a team of engineers working on delivering the Autopay Payments Platform as an API-first platform, consisting of Merchant APIs and PSP/Rail APIs, fronted by an API gateway and backed by event-driven microservices on Kubernetes/AWS. The Platform is aiming to be Agentic-Ready – its APIs and events can be safely consumed by automations and agents at scale – contract-first, deterministic, idempotent, observable and fast.

The role merges team supervision with hands-on duties so it requires both software development experience as well as interpersonal and management skills. Your primary duties will be to:

•          communicate with business stakeholders to make sure the product requirements are clearly understood and deliverable,
•       work with other team leaders on alignment with architecture, infrastructure and data management guidelines,
•       support the members of your team with your expertise and insight when dealing with their current workload,
•       review the work of your team members to ensure a reliable delivery of features in two-week sprints,
•       create, document, explain and enforce best coding practices and patterns,
•          onboard new team members and ensure a frictionless introduction to the project.

Get involved in designing, coding, testing, fine-tuning and shipping the elements of the Autopay Payments Platform, taking into consideration the following aspects:

•       containerization of microservices,
•       event-driven architecture and reactive patterns, replay handling, idempotency, retry and ordering strategies,
•       API-Gateway compatibility for authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and traceability,
•       performance optimization, caching and connection pooling,  
•      relational schema design, migration, maintenance and tunin,
•      deployment to Kubernetes clusters,
•      observability with alignment to central monitoring stacks.

What tools will you be working with?

• technologies: Java, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS
• nice to have: knowledge of Python programming language and tooling, experience with stack observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Datadog or New Relic, familiarity with Mulesoft Anypoint Platform will be a great advantage, understanding of IaC solutions with focus on Terraform

   

Requirements and skills we are looking for in the person hired for this role:

• minimum 8 years of experience as a backend developer,
• minimum 5 years of experience on a development team lead position or equivalent,
• exposure to payments engineering – understanding of transaction lifecycle, settlement and reconciliation concepts,
• strong leadership qualities and interpersonal skills,
• ability to understand existing code for review purposes,
• proven backend engineering track record building microservices in Java and/or Python
• solid understanding of event-driven architecture, queues and topics (Kafka), reactive programming patterns with at-least-once semantics and idempotency,
• solid understanding of relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL), data modelling, modern SQL, migrations (preferably Flyway) and performance optimization,
• strong experience with deploying applications to Kubernetes clusters (preferably EKS other AWS tooling like X-Ray/ CloudWatch and/or OpenTelemetry),
• familiarity with GitOps practices and working with CI/CD pipelines (preferably Gitlab and FluxCD),
• API Gateway experience, including policies, routing, versioning, authentication and rate limiting,
• solid experience with troubleshooting in distributed environments; setting up tooling to support debugging, performance metrics etc.,
• proven track record of participation in Scrum projects and ability to work in sprints,
• growth mindset and ability to apply new technologies, patterns or solutions to the current workstream (i.e. GenAI-assisted coding)

What do we offer? 

•           leadership role in a fast-growing, global fintech company,
•       possibility to work with cutting-edge tools and technologies,
•       independence in decision-making,
•       friendly working environment, team support, no dress code.

Join us and let's head together where no one has gone before!!