Responsibilities
- Strategic Execution & Delivery - Navigate ambiguity, bring structure to complex challenges, and drive alignment across teams.
- Work cross-functionally to bring clarity to priorities and define what needs to be done to drive success.
- Operate closely with the team, wearing multiple hats to ensure critical projects are executed successfully.
- Own the delivery, collaborating closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to achieve meaningful outcomes.
- People Leadership & Team Development - Act as a people leader, mentoring and developing engineers into future leaders.
- Hire and grow a high-performing team, ensuring strong technical and leadership talent.
- Set high standards and elevate the team through coaching, feedback, and hands-on support.
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence within and beyond the team.
- Extend expertise and influence beyond Payments into the broader Financial Services organization & the Services vertical.
- Communication & Influence - Ensure clear and concise messaging across stakeholders, particularly around the goals, objectives and priorities.
- Work cross-functionally with business teams to align on technical and product strategy.
- Influence and drive decision-making across teams, advocating for best practices in engineering and business execution.
- Technical Leadership & Architecture - Architect and scale business systems with a strong understanding of various paradigms, including event-driven systems.
- Evaluate and guide technical architecture decisions to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Develop a deep understanding of existing systems, guide the teams to continuously evolve their systems/architecture/patterns.
- Drive continuous delivery of value, ensuring high availability and operational excellence.
- Develop quick prototypes to validate ideas or assist with technical spikes.
Requirements
- Deep knowledge and understanding of software engineering principles, technologies and best practices.
- Has a strong software development background with a history of being an engineer & expertise in multiple mainstream technology stacks (Node, JVM, .NET, etc).
- Expertise in software architecture & design of scalable, maintainable & resilient systems that run on the cloud across regions.
- Expertise in modern software delivery practices (continuous delivery, lean practices, etc).
- Operational Excellence Mindset: Experience running & managing operations of business critical systems on the cloud.
- People management: experience in hiring, performance management, and growth
- Experience leading other leaders in a software engineering organization
- Experience working with cross-functional leaders as one unit & setting organizational goals and objectives.
- Experience owning technology/product for a clear line of business or a complete product.
Nice to Have
- Experience working in product engineering and/or SaaS software delivery is a plus
- The hunger to learn across the core areas of your domain, to synthesize insights from your learnings and to leverage those insights in your team.
Benefits
- Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture.
- Join a fast-paced, high-growth company.
- Work on systems that handle billions of dollars in transactions for our merchants globally.
- Surround yourself with strong talent and enjoy continuous professional growth.
- Develop in a modern and proven technology stack.
- Great benefits and perks, including equity and flexible/hybrid remote work options, in a diverse and inclusive environment.
- Development of very high traffic products, used at the global scale.
- Opportunities to learn and expand your skill set
- Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners)
- Flexible paid time off policy
- Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year
- Paid leave and assistance for new parents
- Mental health online platform and counseling & coaching services
- Volunteer day
Additional Information
- Highly collaborative and effective team member.
