Tech Lead Backend Engineering

Your Impact

• You define and drive the technical roadmap for backend systems, aligning engineering initiatives with product goals and business strategy.
• You design and oversee scalable and distributed backend architectures, ensuring long-term system health, performance, and maintainability.
• You act as a bridge between business and engineering, translating complex requirements into clear and actionable technical solutions.
• You are responsible for the architecture and evolution of card and payment systems, including card lifecycle management, real-time transaction processing, clearing and settlement, and ensuring the integrity of financial flows and ledger systems.
• You ensure seamless and secure integrations of APIs and external partners, enabling high-scale B2B and platform-based solutions.
• You advise on the evolution of the tech stack and make key architectural decisions, including vendor and third-party integrations (e.g., payment processors, KYC providers).
• You support and mentor team members, enabling autonomy, fostering engineering excellence, and helping the team deliver efficiently and without friction.
• You work closely with backend engineers, product teams, and stakeholders to solve complex technical and business challenges.
• You ensure end-to-end ownership of services, from initial architecture through delivery, production stability, and continuous improvement.

Your Talent

• You bring extensive experience as a backend engineer with a leadership component, combining hands-on technical expertise with the ability to guide teams and stakeholders.
• You have proven experience with Go, distributed systems, and SQL databases, along with strong system design and architecture skills.
• You understand how to translate complex business requirements — especially in the card and payments domain — into scalable technical solutions.
• You bring deep knowledge of fintech systems, including card networks, transaction lifecycles, and regulatory standards such as PCI-DSS.
• You think strategically about architecture and product development, with a focus on building modern, scalable financial services within the embedded finance space.
• You work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, acting as a key point of alignment between product and engineering.
• You lead by example, maintaining a strong technical presence while supporting and empowering your team.
• You promote and leverage AI tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and development workflows.
• You take ownership in a DevOps-oriented environment, ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and production-ready.
• You communicate fluently in English, both written and spoken, and collaborate in an international environment.
• You have German language skills, which are an advantage but not a requirement.