Lead Software Engineer – Payments

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🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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OrderYOYO

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

💰 $6M Post-IPO Equity - OrderYoyo on 2022-03

Food & Beverage • Marketing • Logistics

OrderYOYO is an online ordering and marketing platform for restaurants and takeaways that provides bespoke websites and mobile apps, a cloud POS, integrated payment processing (YOYOPay), and targeted marketing services (email, SMS, app push, Google Ads, social media). It offers features like loyalty programs, reservations, analytics via a My Business app, and dedicated support to help restaurants capture direct orders, reduce commission fees, and grow customer retention. The company positions itself as a Google Partner and serves thousands of restaurants with tailored digital storefronts and marketing campaigns.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of payments engineers • Provide hands-on technical guidance, feedback, and career development • Own hiring and team-building for the payments engineering function • Run 1:1s, goal-setting, performance reviews, and career progression conversations • Build a culture of documented and shared payments knowledge • Represent payments engineering in leadership and cross-functional discussions • Set technical direction and long-term architecture strategy for payment-domain services • Oversee gateway integrations, authorization/capture/refund flows, payout orchestration, and reconciliation • Oversee onboarding/KYC integration, merchant configuration, settlement instructions, deductions, and invoicing • Ensure reliable flow-of-funds primitives, including idempotency, ledgers/events, and audit trails • Own PSP and partner integration strategy • Oversee dispute, chargeback, and fraud-handling workflows • Partner with Product, Legal/Compliance, Finance, and Support • Improve automated testing, safe rollouts, observability, and incident response

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience leading, mentoring, or people-managing a team of software engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development • Strong backend engineering background in distributed systems, including microservices, async processing, resilient APIs, and eventual consistency • Production experience with payment flows, including authorization, capture, refund, webhooks, and reconciliation • Experience with money-correctness patterns such as idempotency keys, double-entry thinking, and auditability • Solid security mindset covering PCI compliance, PII protection, secrets management, least privilege, and secure coding practices • Comfort working in an Azure-first environment with APIs, queues/eventing, and monitoring • Strong CI/CD and automated testing practices • Clear, confident communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders in high-stakes scenarios • Strong judgment balancing team capacity, technical debt, and business priorities • Experience scaling or restructuring an engineering team through growth or organizational change • Experience with sub-merchant, marketplace, or Payfac-like operating models • Familiarity with dispute tooling, card scheme rules, 3DS/risk rules, or fraud platforms • Experience partnering with Legal, Compliance, or Finance leadership on regulatory or audit requirements

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Remote role with work-from-anywhere flexibility • Quarterly in-person gatherings at one of the global offices • High ownership and autonomy • Clear leadership mandate with scope for broader engineering management responsibilities • Opportunity to lead revenue-critical production systems • Strong focus on security, reliability, and engineering best practices • Collaborative, international engineering team • Learning, mentoring, and long-term growth opportunities