Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead - OP02108

At Dev.Pro, we partner with businesses worldwide, from startups to Fortune 500 companies across fintech, retail, hospitality, and beyond. With a remote-first mindset and a team in 55+ countries, we focus on aligning technical expertise with client needs, communicating clearly, and staying adaptable as priorities shift.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience leading cross-functional teams of 6+ engineers or strong tech leadership experience, with readiness to move into people leadership
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills, with direct client-facing experience and ability to work effectively across diverse, cross-cultural teams
• Ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, align teams, and bring clarity in ambiguous situations
• Demonstrated end-to-end delivery ownership, with a proactive, accountable mindset
• Ability to organize work, manage priorities, and remove delivery blockers
• Experience in Agile environments with exposure to modern engineering practices (automated testing, CI/CD, code reviews)
• Experience delivering high-performance, reliable backend systems in mission-critical, high-throughput environments
• Strong understanding of APIs, system integration, and abstraction layers
• Hands-on experience with Perl, C, or Java, or a strong willingness to quickly learn Perl
• Upper-Intermediate English level
• Willingness to travel to Zagreb office twice per quarter

Desirable:

• Experience in payments, fintech, card processing, or other financial services domains
• Proficiency with Java-based testing frameworks
• Experience with DevOps practices and building observability, logging, and resilience into products

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend components in Perl, integrated with C-based core systems
• Build mapping, customization, and business logic layers to interface with client, gateway, and host systems
• Own end-to-end feature delivery, including automated testing (Java-based frameworks), code quality, and performance stability
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and release processes as part of delivery ownership
• Build and integrate observability and monitoring features to ensure low-latency and self-recovering system operations
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver features from requirements to production and monitoring
• Work with client stakeholders to clarify requirements, align expectations, and help resolve technical issues