What Youll Do:
The Merchant-Ops squad is responsible for various domains and products that manage and support our merchants and their ongoing relationship with us. The team develops mobile applications, web platforms, and backend services, and is comprised of skilled backend, frontend, and data engineers.
As the Merchant-Ops Squad Lead, you will be responsible for the team's technical leadership, domain design, and day-to-day execution. You will collaborate closely with product managers and business stakeholders to define priorities and deliver impactful solutions that align with key business goals. We are looking for someone who can drive end-to-end ownership, balance business needs with strong engineering practices, and help shape the direction of our products.
Responsibilities:
Among your key responsibilities, you will lead a highly skilled team that architects and builds scalable systems that serve our customers and partners.
Lead the technical architecture and system design for merchant-facing products
Guide a multidisciplinary squad of frontend, backend and data engineers through implementation, delivery, and iteration
Work closely with product managers and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
Ensure development aligns with business objectives, long-term system health, and our company's engineering standards
Conduct and lead design reviews, code reviews, and performance optimization efforts
Drive a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement
Oversee system reliability, monitoring, and incident response within your domain.
Requirements: 2+ years of leadership experience, guiding engineering teams and making architectural decisions
8+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on scalable architecture and system design
Proficiency in modern system architecture with large-scale and high performance.
Impact driven - use data to make sure every task moves the needle and utilize your resources to maximize the team's impact.
Team player with strong communication skills and someone who thrives working in a fast-paced environment.
Creative, solution-oriented, and able to maintain a can do attitude, with the ability to work efficiently under pressure and uncertainty. Adapt quickly to changing business needs.
Familiarity with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
B.Sc in computer science or equivalent.
Fluent in English.
Preferred Experience:
Experience with software development in Kotlin or Java.
Experience with Frontend technologies.
Experience with mobile technologies.
Leading a multidisciplinary team.
Familiarity with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
Solid understanding of AWS or similar cloud platforms.
Expertise in the Spring Framework.
Proficient in both relational (e.g., MySQL) and non-relational databases (e.g., MongoDB).
Familiarity with message queue technologies such as Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, or similar.
This position is open to all candidates.