Lead Backend Engineer

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.

• Minimum 8 years of experience as a backend developer
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a development team lead position or equivalent
• Exposure to payments engineering, including 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 and 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 and performance metrics
• 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 (e.g., GenAI-assisted coding)

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
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions with focus on Terraform

Team leadership and collaboration:

• Communicate with business stakeholders to ensure product requirements are clearly understood and deliverable
• Work with other team leaders on alignment with architecture, infrastructure and data management guidelines
• Support team members with expertise and insight regarding their workload
• Review team members' work to ensure 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

Platform development and maintenance:

• Design, code, test, fine-tune and ship elements of the Autopay Payments Platform
• Focus on containerization of microservices
• Implement event-driven architecture and reactive patterns, including replay handling, idempotency, retry and ordering strategies
• Ensure API-Gateway compatibility for authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and traceability
• Optimize performance, caching and connection pooling
• Design, migrate, maintain and tune relational schemas
• Deploy to Kubernetes clusters
• Ensure observability aligned with central monitoring stacks