Technical Lead Lisboa

Technical Lead
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

About Us
We are a fintech company building the payments infrastructure powering global B2B commerce. As we continue to grow, we are looking for a Tech Lead to start our second team in Lisbon and play a key role in shaping the future of our technology and products.
About The Role
This is a hands-on leadership role where you will combine deep technical expertise with people leadership—guiding, mentoring, and inspiring a team of software engineers while actively contributing to the development and delivery of our core payment solutions.
Responsibilities:

• Take involvement and ownership of all aspects of product development, from ideation through architecture to implementation, testing, and continuous deployment.
• Work closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure smooth integration and timely delivery of features.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to developers, fostering their growth and helping them enhance their skills.
• Lead the design and implementation of RESTful APIs to enable seamless integration with various internal and external systems.
• Optimize application performance to ensure low latency, high availability, and reliability.
• Participate in design and code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Conduct thorough testing of backend components, write automated tests, and ensure high code quality and reliability.
• Identify and address bottlenecks, bugs, and performance issues within the backend infrastructure.
• Stay
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  - date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continually improve the development process.
• Contribute to the overall technical strategy and architecture of the product.
• Drive engineering excellence across the team, setting the standard for code quality, testing, scalability, and security.
• Take a lead role in recruiting: help identify, interview, and hire exceptional engineering talent to grow the Lisbon team and support our global ambitions.