Engineering Lead - GetPaid Formats

About the role:

Team you will be working with: GetPaid Formats

The GetPaid Formats team is dedicated to creating seamless and efficient solutions for customers to receive money directly into their [Employer hidden] accounts. You will be working in products like our Payment Links, Invoice and QuickPay, as more to come, as well as our in-network payment method: Pay With [Employer hidden]. Our goal is to make  receiving money internationally as cheap and convenient as possible.

And, we need an Engineering Lead to join our mission and help us build new ways of getting paid as well as improving the existing ones. As the Engineering Lead, you will work closely with product to set up the team direction, will work with engineers to set up the team vision and will mentor and grow engineers with the goal of building a high performance team able to make [Employer hidden]' offering for getting paid one of the best in the industry.

How we work

The GetPaid Formats team is part of the Global Product tribe, dedicated to enabling customers to receive money seamlessly and efficiently into their [Employer hidden] accounts. We build innovative payment products that serve both businesses and consumers, creating convenient and reliable ways to get paid internationally.

What will you be working on?

• Invoice and payment link tools
• Developing new ways of getting paid such as subscriptions and in-person
• Enabling our products in more regions

Qualifications

What do you need?

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more we do want to hear from you!

• Experience leading teams and expand products in order to navigate to ongoing expansion.
• A strong product mindset and passion for user experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
• Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Leading and inspiring your team of engineers to build the prioritise building right things, in the right way 
• Ability to deliver work across multiple teams, coordinating your efforts across the organisation.. Your work will frequently involve cross-team collaboration.
• Ability to break down complex projects into incremental milestones that deliver customer value
• Experience in developing web applications and distributed systems in a production environment
• Experience with common design and architectural patterns coupled with a passion for writing clean code that is performant and well tested 
• Curiosity and drive for continuous learning and improvement
• Following and advocating best coding practices, continuous delivery and code reviews
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas is a plus
• Knowledge of Java and Spring boot and experience with a messaging system, like Kafka, is a plus
• Being part of the on-call rotation for our critical services and helping the team improve it, normally being on-call every 6-10 weeks.

…but don’t worry we don’t expect you to know everything!