Lead Software Engineer – Payments

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential client in the restaurant technology sector, and we're seeking a Lead Software Engineer – Payments to join their team in the Netherlands on a remote basis.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll own the evolution of a mission-critical payments platform. You'll lead a team of payments engineers, set technical direction for a high-stakes domain, and support the transition to a more scalable operating model across multiple platform touchpoints.

Payments sit at the heart of this business. Every transaction, settlement, and dispute flows through the systems your team will own and operate. You'll shape how the organization handles money—from authorization and settlement to disputes and merchant invoicing—while building and developing the people who make that possible.

Responsibilities

People Leadership & Team Development:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of payments engineers with hands-on technical guidance, regular feedback, and clear career development paths
• Own hiring and team-building for the payments engineering function, partnering with recruiting on role profiles and interviews
• Manage day-to-day people responsibilities: 1:1s, goal-setting, performance reviews, and career progression conversations
• Build a team culture where payments knowledge is documented and shared through design reviews, standards, and mentoring
• Represent the payments engineering team in leadership conversations, translating business needs into technical strategy
• Balance hands-on technical contribution with people-management responsibilities

Technical & Domain Ownership:

• Set technical direction and long-term architecture strategy for payment-domain services, including gateway integrations, payment intent/authorization/capture/refund flows, payout orchestration, and reconciliation
• Oversee marketplace capabilities: onboarding/KYC integration, merchant configuration, settlement instructions, deductions, and invoicing alignment
• Ensure robust "flow-of-funds" primitives—idempotency, ledgers/events, and audit trails supportable for finance and compliance
• Own strategy for PSP and partner integrations, with attention to tri-party/sub-merchant implications
• Oversee dispute/chargeback and fraud-handling touchpoints across internal workflows and PSP tooling
• Partner with Product, Legal/Compliance, Finance, and Support to convert requirements into safe, testable production behavior
• Raise engineering quality through automated testing, safe rollouts/canaries, observability, and incident-response improvements

What We're Looking For

Must-Have Requirements:

• Proven experience leading, mentoring, or people-managing a team of software engineers—including hiring, performance management, and career development
• Strong backend engineering background in distributed systems—microservices, async processing, resilient APIs, and eventual consistency
• Production experience with payment flows (auth/capture/refund, webhooks, reconciliation) and "money correctness" patterns such as idempotency keys, double-entry thinking, and auditability
• Solid security mindset: PCI compliance, PII protection, secrets management, least privilege, and secure coding practices
• Comfort working in an Azure-first environment (APIs, queues/eventing, monitoring) with strong CI/CD and automated testing practices
• Clear, confident communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders in high-stakes scenarios—incidents, financial breaks, and compliance requests
• Strong judgment on when to move fast, when to standardize, and when to say "not yet" with evidence—balancing team capacity, technical debt, and business priorities

Strong-to-Have Experience:

• Experience scaling or restructuring an engineering team through periods of growth or organizational change
• Experience with sub-merchant, marketplace, or Payfac-like operating models (KYC, underwriting, settlements, fee deductions)
• Familiarity with dispute tooling, card scheme rules, 3DS/risk rules, or fraud platforms
• Experience partnering with Legal, Compliance, or Finance leadership on regulatory or audit requirements

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your profile and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your candidacy to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication and coordination will flow through our recruiting team to ensure the best experience for everyone involved.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on experience and qualifications.

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