№ 1034 · Fintech, millions of users · Remote

Team Lead / Engineering Manager (Java/Go) at an international product fintech — remote or relocation

Lead a cross-functional backend team of 6–12 people and launch new product streams in a financial ecosystem with millions of users.

About the company

An international product fintech developing a digital financial ecosystem with an audience of millions of users. The company is developing a comprehensive platform of B2C and B2B services: from transactional and payment solutions to complex lending and financial products.

Processes and development are built in a fast-track format (minimal time-to-market, product experiments and regular launches of new business lines)

Stack

Java, Go, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, GitLab, EFK, Grafana

What you will do

  • Managing the full development cycle in a cross-functional team (6–12 people): from business requirements analysis and design to release and operations.
  • Setting up new product streams: hiring, building teams from scratch and taking part in development at the launch stage.
  • Architecture of the team's services, aligning the technical vision with cross-teams and architects, systematic work on tech debt.
  • Ensuring quality and reliability: observability, fault tolerance, incident management.
  • Working together with the Product Manager: shaping, estimating and prioritizing the backlog.
  • Growing the engineering culture: running 1:1s, PDPs, mentoring and technical interviews.

What matters

  • Experience managing backend development teams from 3 years.
  • Deep expertise in backend (Java / Go), willingness to dive into code and do code reviews.
  • Hands-on experience building delivery processes (Scrum/Kanban) and regular releases.
  • Experience in the fintech industry, banking sector or high-load E-commerce / PayTech projects.
  • Understanding of the principles of designing high-load and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
  • Experience launching products or engineering teams from scratch will be an advantage.
  • The team's working language is Russian.

Terms

  • Flexible work format: fully remote or relocation support to the company's international hub.
  • Autonomy in decisions: responsibility for architecture, processes and building your own team.
  • Competitive salary (discussed individually based on interview results).
  • Compensation of AI tool subscriptions (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, etc.)

Where to write

Questions about this job — write to the recruiter directly: julia.fokina@new.hr

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