Team Lead - Software Engineering

Role & responsibilities

• Technical Leadership

  Lead the end-to-end development of payment processing systems using the .NET stack
  Own system architecture and technical design for payment services and APIs
  Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and performance for transaction-heavy systems
  Drive adoption of best practices (SOLID, clean architecture, domain-driven design)

  Payments & Domain Ownership

  Design and implement payment workflows, settlements, reconciliations, and exception handling
  Handle high-volume, low-latency transaction processing
  Ensure idempotency, retries, and transactional consistency
  Collaborate with business teams on payments rules, validations, and edge cases

  Security & Compliance

  Ensure compliance with PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and internal security standards
  Implement secure authentication and authorization (OAuth2, JWT, role-based access)
  Partner with security teams on audits, vulnerability remediation, and data protection

  Mentorship & Collaboration

  Lead and mentor a team of senior and mid-level engineers
  Conduct code reviews and enforce coding standards
  Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and delivery commitments
  Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, QA, SRE, and Compliance

  Required Technical Skills
  Core Technologies

  Strong expertise in C#, .NET Core / .NET 6+
  ASP.NET Core Web APIs & Microservices
  RESTful services and event-driven architectures

  Payments & Data

  Strong SQL Server experience (complex queries, performance tuning)
  Experience with financial transactions and data consistency
  Knowledge of reconciliation and reporting systems

  Cloud & DevOps

  Azure ecosystem (App Services, Functions, Service Bus, Storage, Key Vault)
  CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions)
  Experience with Docker; Kubernetes is a plus

  Architecture & Patterns

  Microservices architecture
  Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
  Messaging & eventing (Service Bus, Kafka, or equivalent)
  Caching strategies (Redis)

Preferred candidate profile