Tech Lead

As our Tech Lead for the Payments Processing team, you’ll architect and own the core payment and ledger services that power our platform. You’ll set the technical direction, establish best practices for reliability and security, and mentor engineers to deliver robust, scalable solutions in a highly regulated environment.

**What You’ll Bring**:

- ** Deep Backend & Payments Expertise**
- 7+ years in software development, with at least 3 in a technical leadership or architect role
- Proven experience building and operating a **ledger-based payment system** (double-entry accounting, reconciliation, settlements)
- Expert in **Golang**, microservices architectures, and API design; strong SQL skills (PostgreSQL or equivalent)
- Familiarity with message queues/event buses (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and idempotent, event-driven workflows
- ** Architecture & Standards Leadership**
- Track record defining and enforcing coding standards, service conventions, and CI/CD pipelines for backend services
- Experience designing for high throughput, low latency and strict consistency guarantees
- Deep understanding of security and compliance in payments (PCI-DSS, encryption at rest/in transit, audit trails)
- ** Quality & Reliability Mindset**
- Solid experience with **integration and end-to-end testing** of payment flows
- Expertise in observability: logging, metrics (Prometheus/Grafana), distributed tracing, and alerting
- Demonstrated ability to drive service-level objectives (SLOs), error budgets and incident response processes
- ** Technical Mentoring & Collaboration**
- Proven mentor and coach—able to upskill mid-level and junior engineers in best practices
- Strong communicator, able to align cross-functional teams (Product, QA, Compliance, DevOps) on technical trade-offs

**What You’ll Own**:

- ** Payment & Ledger Architecture**
- Design, build and evolve our core payment processing and ledger engine, ensuring atomicity, consistency and auditability
- Define service boundaries, event schemas and database schemas to support everything from authorization to settlement and reconciliation
- ** Standards, Guidelines & Tooling**
- Establish and maintain backend coding standards, API conventions, release checklists and branching policies
- Integrate security scans, compliance checks and performance budgets into CI pipelines
- ** Technical Leadership & Reviews**
- Lead design and code reviews focused on reliability, scalability and security—be the expert on tricky finance edge cases
- Mentor engineers through pairing sessions, design workshops and regular feedback loops
- ** Cross-Functional Delivery**
- Partner with Product Managers and Compliance to translate regulatory and business requirements into robust services
- Drive proof-of-concepts for new payment rails (e.g., instant payouts, multi-currency support) and share learnings across the organization
- ** Metrics & Continuous Improvement**
- Define key service health metrics (transaction throughput, latency, error rates) and put monitoring/alerting in place
- Own post-release performance reviews, blameless postmortems and iterative improvements to service reliability

**About Us**:
Alternative Payments is a leading payments platform for service-based companies. Our innovative platform enables businesses to automate the entire accounts receivable process and reduce the overall expense of payment processing. We are dedicated to fostering growth and providing exceptional value to our clients.

**Our Values**
- ** Transparency & Honesty**: We operate with transparency to our customers, investors, and other partners, every step of the way.
- ** Dependability**: We are dependable. We do what we say we are going to do and we do not cut corners.
- ** Partnership**: We are partners to our customers, investors, and each other, and work together to solve exciting massive problems.
- ** Revolutionary & Boldness**:We are revolutionary & bold. We break down barriers and walls to build our own walls in a stronger, safer, and simpler manner.
- ** Diversity & Inclusion**: We work together with people of all backgrounds and seek different viewpoints to generate stronger partnerships and create a stronger, more inclusive company and world.