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Engineering Lead, Payments Platform

Netherlands, Amsterdam · Job Posted February 21, 2026
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As an Engineering lead, you will be responsible for working on a range of exciting initiatives across our international payments platform. The role includes both people & technical responsibilities, and you’ll be responsible for both the product delivery & overall health of the Engineering Team. We strongly value your experience in building, designing and engineering payment systems (gateway, acquiring, issuing or equivalent). If you don’t have them already, you will learn all the intricacies of the Visa and Mastercard payment platforms. You will work closely with the payments product team and will be given the opportunity to interact with the partners engineering teams when required. As part of our core acquiring payment team you are building the next generation Payment Acceptance infrastructure, and Merchant needs are always top of mind.

Job Responsibility

  • Lead a team of engineers, set goals and development targets for the engineers within the team and support the team with feedback and development plans as they progress
  • Work closely with product managers and key stakeholders to define product roadmap, prioritize projects and ship incrementally to production
  • Develop various REST services and integration components within a backend microservices architecture, connecting with our React frontend
  • Conduct architectural reviews for current and upcoming solutions
  • Address tech debt, and enhance operational effectiveness such as MTTD and MTTR
  • Contribute to the hiring, training and development of the engineers within the managed team

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on low latency, distributed systems
  • At least one year experience in managing teams
  • Strong computer science fundamentals
  • Experience in designing and building REST APIs
  • High volume distributed systems
  • Kafka event streams
  • Distributed data storage systems (Cassandra, Hazelcast, Oracle Coherence or similar)
  • GCP or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront, etc), docker and Kubernetes exposure
  • Javascript / Typescript
  • Operational tooling such as New Relic, StatsD, Elk, Datadog, Prometheus

Nice to have

  • Experience in building a payment gateway, acquiring platform or issuing platform
  • Experience integrating Local Payment Methods (i.e. iDeal, Klarna, Trustly or equivalent) or Cards (i.e. Visa, Mastercard, etc.)
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