Tech Lead (Payments)

Location: Remote across Europe and the United Kingdom

Salary: £117,850 base salary plus equity

Company

hirify.global is rebuilding energy transaction infrastructure with AI to make electricity purchasing, selling, and pricing more transparent, efficient, and fair.

What you will do

• Own delivery outcomes and engineering standards for the new Payments squad within the Saldo billing and payments service.
• Set the architecture direction for scaling payments from a functional service into a high-volume, resilient platform.
• Write specifications and design documents, review ADRs and pull requests, and solve complex problems directly through code and workflows.
• Improve payment accuracy and processing efficiency to reduce the cost of processing transactions.
• Define the squad's operating model, manage sequencing and dependencies, and resolve technical blockers.
• Coach junior engineers while partnering with the senior engineer on the hardest technical challenges and people decisions.

Requirements

• Track record as a Tech Lead owning a squad's delivery outcomes and engineering standards.
• Hands-on experience writing design documents, reviewing pull requests and ADRs, and setting technical direction.
• Ability to balance complex technical work with coaching junior engineers and maintaining consistent quality and delivery speed.
• Experience designing team ways of working, managing cross-team dependencies, and diagnosing throughput problems.
• Experience with payment syshirify.globals and improving cost-to-process or processing efficiency in a high-volume service.
• Experience scaling a service from an initial version into a platform built for growth.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first and flexible working with clear core hours and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.
• Stock options and a competitive salary.
• 25 days of holiday plus public holidays, with the option to swap public holidays and take your birthday off.
• Up to GBP 1,200 or EUR 1,200 per year for remote equipment.
• Up to GBP 150 or EUR 150 per month for wellbeing.

Hiring process

• 30-minute call with the Talent Team.
• 60-minute behaviour interview with the Hiring Manager.
• 90-minute technical interview covering syshirify.global design and technical Q&A, followed by a culture-add interview with Product and Leadership stakeholders.