Tech Lead

About the role

About Payoneer

Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for a Tech Lead to be the technical backbone of our Cards engineering team in India. You will set the technical direction, drive architectural decisions, and raise the engineering bar — while staying hands-on with code and guiding engineers through complex problem-solving.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own and drive the technical vision, architecture, and design for the Cards domain

- Be a hands-on coding leader — write, review, and set the quality bar for production code

- Lead technical design discussions, RFC processes, and cross-team architectural decisions

- Mentor and upskill engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and technical guidance

- Partner with Product and Engineering Manager to translate business goals into technical roadmaps

- Identify and resolve technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and scalability challenges

- Champion engineering best practices: testing, observability, CI/CD, and Agile delivery

- Collaborate with DevOps, Security, and peer tech leads on platform-wide standards

MUST-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS

- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent

- 10+ years of backend development experience in Node.js with strong C# exposure

- 3+ years of advanced SQL (MSSQL / Oracle / MySQL / PostgreSQL)

- Proven track record as a technical leader driving complex, distributed systems

- Deep experience building SaaS platforms on AWS

- Containers & Kubernetes (K8s/EKS) experience

- Message broker expertise: RabbitMQ / SQS / Kafka (Kafka preferred)

- Microservices architecture and strong OOP / design patterns knowledge

- Experience in payment card systems, card processing, or financial platforms

NICE TO HAVE

- Full-stack exposure: Next

- Redis or equivalent caching layer

- ORM experience (Entity Framework or similar)

- Domain Driven Design (DDD) practice

- PCI-DSS compliance or card network (Visa/Mastercard) integration experience

TECH STACK SNAPSHOT

Backend

Node.js · C#

Database

MSSQL / PostgreSQL