Technical Lead - Payment Infrastructure

Team

Wallee Group is a leader in delivering advanced payment solutions, focusing on providing robust, scalable, and secure systems across multiple domains. We are dedicated to enhancing customer experiences by offering innovative payment and finance systems that support businesses in growing efficiently. Our operations span across multiple countries, and we thrive on collaboration and agility, using frameworks like Scrum to organize teams. At Wallee, we aim to stay at the forefront of market trends, continuously innovating to provide the best services to our customers.

Tasks

Role description

As the Tech Lead of the Payment Infrastructure team, you will oversee the team’s strategy, managing IT infrastructure, development, and innovation of our products and services. You will ensure strong leadership and promote a culture of knowledge transfer. Your focus will include quality assurance, software architecture designs and incident prevention while leading the team towards delivering technological solutions that align with business objectives.

We are recruiting for our office in Hamburg.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of software developers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Promote knowledge transfer within your team and also across teams, ensuring all technical teams are aligned and working towards shared business objectives.
• Ensure the team’s development and the delivery of high-quality software.
• Organize the team’s internal processes, people management and ensure a close collaboration with the stakeholders
• Create and review software architecture designs, implement solutions and oversee the production incidents.
• Ensure performance optimization (e.g: SQL queries, Eclipse Link).
• Research, conceive and develop software applications to extend and improve on our product offering.
• Ensure team’s clean code that runs in our highly available and distributed environment
• Develop and maintain integrations for our payment acceptance network and integrations into local acquiring platforms.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Tech Lead or similar leadership role, managing distributed technical teams in a fast-paced environment.
• In-depth knowledge of web systems architecture, design, development, and quality assurance methodologies.
• Strong leadership and people management skills
• Expertise in the Payment industry is a plus.
• Excellent programming skills in Java with very good knowledge of the frameworks and tools: Spring Framework, JPA etc.
• Experience with Quarkus is a plus.
• Experience with ActiveMQ is a plus.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to align technology solutions with business objectives and cost-reduction goals.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Modern office in the heart of the city
• Flexible working hours that support work–life balance
• An international, professional team with flat hierarchies
• Collaboration with motivated colleagues and strong personal development prospects
• An active role in shaping innovative products within a dynamic fintech company
• Opportunities to work on international projects with leading companies in the financial sector
• Complimentary fruits, snacks, and drinks available in the office
• Regular team events to build an engaging and collaborative culture
• 4 weeks/year work-from-anywhere