Lead Backend Engineer, Taxes Module

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🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Solidgate

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201 - 500 employees

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

🔌 API

Fintech • SaaS • API

Solidgate is a fintech SaaS platform that provides payment orchestration and global payment infrastructure for merchants and businesses. It offers hosted payment pages and APIs, intelligent routing, connectors to dozens of payment providers and alternative payment methods, acquiring, billing and subscription engines, antifraud and chargeback representment tools, and treasury/business accounts to move and receive funds. Solidgate focuses on helping businesses launch and scale global commerce with enterprise-grade security, multi-region availability, and developer-friendly integrations.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the Taxes module within the Billing team • Define the architecture and technical strategy for tax calculation and reporting logic • Lead integrations with third-party tax providers and own technical partnerships • Drive system resilience, uptime, and scalability across services • Make architectural decisions and establish engineering standards and best practices • Lead, mentor, and grow the engineering team • Help shape hiring as the team scales • Deliver core tax functionality in the first months • Establish the technical foundation and engineering practices for future product and team growth • Champion automated unit, integration, functional, and end-to-end testing

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience in Go, PHP, Kotlin, Java, or Python • Proven experience designing and owning high-load, distributed systems • Strong, hands-on experience with PostgreSQL • Solid experience with queues or streams • Experience with unit, integration, functional, and end-to-end testing • Experience mentoring engineers and setting technical direction • Proactive, independent, result-oriented mindset with strong ownership • Kafka experience is nice to have • AWS services experience is nice to have • CI/CD pipelines experience is nice to have • Fintech, payments, or financial domain experience is nice to have • Understanding of VAT, GST, or Sales Tax is nice to have • Experience managing or leading teams is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• 30+ days off • Unlimited sick leave • Free office meals • Health coverage • Apple gear • Courses • Conferences • Sports and wellness benefits • Referral bonus if a referred candidate is hired