Engineering Team Lead

Job Description

Are you ready to write your next chapter?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. With proven technology, we process the largest volume of payments in the world, driving the global economy every day. When you join Worldpay, you join a global community of experts and changemakers, working to reinvent an industry by constantly evolving how we work and making the way millions of people pay easier, every day.

What makes a Worldpayer? It's simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions to be better every day, finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We're dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we're determined, always staying open - winning and failing as one.

Are you ready to make your mark? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.

About the role:

We are Worldpay for Platforms. We have a rich 25-year history of being the author, scaler, and leader of integrated payments. Today our business serves over one thousand software companies and over 700K of their end-software users with their payment solutions. The needs of these end-users continue to evolve and the role of Integrated Payments and Payment facilitators in this market is unfolding rapidly. We at Worldpay for Platforms will be the partner of choice for an expanded suite of Value-Added Service products that seamlessly extend the existing Worldpay for Platforms experience.

As an Engineering Team Lead, you will help shape the future of the Payrix Platform by leading the development of the next generation highly scalable ledger system systematically tracking all the fine-grained money movements between business entities on the platform.

What you'll own:

Technical Leadership

• Requirements Development: Interact with product and other mission teams (transactions processing, disbursements, fees, billing, and pricing, reporting and reconciliation) to fully develop precise requirements for the ledger system.

• Code Reviews: Ensure a solid code review process within the team.

• Architecture Guidance: Provide technical guidance on system architecture and design choices.

• Problem Solving: Assist team members in solving technical challenges.

• Hands-on coding: Be a player-coach, doing hands-on coding on regular basis.

• Non-Functional Requirements: Stay focused on building a highly scalable, immutable, auditable, traceable ledger system with a high throughput, low latency, data integrity and consistency.

• Internal Documentation: Maintain a high-quality internal documentation of the ledger APIs, interfaces, and system design.

• Observability: Ensure that the system is highly observable so that debugging and resolving production issues is a breeze.

Team Leadership

• Motivation and Mentorship: Inspire and mentor team members in best practices, design principles, patterns, and processes.

• Skill Development: Mentor and coach junior developers, helping them grow their skills.

• Conflict Resolution: Address conflicts within the team and facilitate resolution.

Communication

• Stakeholder communication: Liaise with stakeholders, ensuring alignment on project goals.

• Status updates: Regularly communicate project status, milestones, and risks.

• Collaboration: Foster collaboration between cross-functional teams.

Project Management

• Prioritize projects based on customer and internal needs in consultation with product management, engineering, operations, and finance departments.

• Help product in t-shirt sizing of initiatives during quarterly planning.

• Work with product for sprint planning and assignment of tickets to individual team members.

• Support the needs of all the mission teams that depend on the ledger (transactions, disbursements, fees, disputes, reporting).

Process

• Continuous Improvement: Identify areas for process enhancement and implement changes.

• Agile Practices: Promote agile methodologies and adapt processes as needed.

What you bring:

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency with various programming languages including C#, PHP, SQL

• Deep knowledge of the AWS platform for building SaaS services.

• Proficiency with software development lifecycle, agile development practices

• Knowledge of accounting principles

• Experience with building ledgers or ledger-like systems

  • Immutability

  • Concurrency

  • Prevent double spending when transactions are out of order or in parallel.

  • Multiple currencies

  • Audits and traceability

  • Data integrity and consistency

• Experience handling concurrency issues.

• Experience building highly scalable systems.

• Experience with compliance, security, and access control issues in software.

• Understands event/asynchronous architectures.

• Understanding of the challenges of modern multi-tenancy SaaS software

• Understanding of how software runs from the request life cycle, asynchronous communication between services, persistence, caching layers and its complexities.

• Critical thinking skills around architectural choices and their impact on data consistency, performance, scalability, and maintainability.

• Ability to communicate architectural choices clearly across all engineering teams.

Soft Skills

• Communication: Effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Clear explanations and cross-department collaboration

• Collaboration: Working closely with the mission-oriented product development teams that build on top of the ledger.

• Problem-solving: Having an eye for detail and the ability to solve complex problems efficiently.

• Adaptability: Being adaptable to learn and integrate new tools and technologies as the tech landscape keeps evolving.

• Critical Thinking: Analyzing situations, making informed decisions, and anticipating challenges.

• Risk Management: Understanding risk factors related to data quality, security, and compliance.

• Negotiation: Ability to advocate for team's needs and influence decision-making

Leadership Skills

• Leadership: Guiding and motivating the team, setting goals, and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.

• Project Management: Managing projects, timelines, and resources effectively.

• Strategic Thinking: Aligning engineering efforts with broader business strategies.

• Change Leadership: Guiding teams through organizational changes and technological shifts.

• Ability to "Think as a Platform"

Education/Work Experience:

• BS degree in engineering - computer science or related field

• 5+ years of experience as a people manager or technical leader with strong mentorship, career development, performance management, SDLC, OKRs setting, hiring skills.

• 15+ years of successful and applicable hands-on experience in software engineering including end-to-end design and implementation.

Worldpay perks - what we'll bring for you:

We know it's bigger than just your career. It's your life, and your world. That's why we offer global benefits and programs to support you at every stage. Here's a taste of what you can expect.

• A competitive salary and benefits.

• Time to support charities and give back to your community.

• Parental leave policy.

• Global recognition platform.

• Virgin Pulse access.

• Global employee assistance program.

What makes a Worldpayer:

At Worldpay, we take our Values seriously, and we live them every day. Think like a customer, Act like an owner, and Win as a team.

• Curious. Humble. Creative. We ask the right questions, listening and learning to get better every day. We simplify the complex and we're always looking to create a bigger impact for our colleagues and customers.

• Empowered. Accountable. Dynamic. We stay agile, using our initiative, taking calculated risks to progress. Never standing still, never settling, we work at pace to achieve our goals. We champion our ideas and stay flexible to make them happen. We know that every action adds up.

• Determined. Inclusive. Open. Unlocking potential means working as one global community. Our work spans borders, and we stay united by our purpose. We collaborate, always encouraging others to perform at their best, welcoming new perspectives.

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.

Apply now to write the next chapter in your career. We can't wait to hear from you.

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