Squad Lead (Domain Owner) (FinTech)

Location: Warsaw, Poland — hybrid, combining remote and in-person work

Company

hirify.global is a global staffing company representing a fintech client that builds point-of-sale financing and consumer credit products for service businesses, deployed across thousands of auto service centers, dental offices, optical clinics, and veterinary practices.

What you will do

• Lead technical architecture and system design for core products and services within the domain.
• Guide a multidisciplinary squad of frontend, backend, and data engineers through implementation, delivery, and iteration.
• Translate product and business requirements into scalable technical solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, performance optimization, monitoring, reliability, and incident response.
• Build a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 4+ years of leadership experience guiding engineering teams and making architectural decisions, plus 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on scalable architecture and system design.
• Very strong backend expertise; Kotlin or Java is preferred, .NET is acceptable with a learning curve, and Python is possible.
• Proficiency in modern large-scale, high-performance system architecture.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Impact-driven approach, strong communication, teamwork, adaptability, and the ability to work efficiently under pressure and uncertainty.
• B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Fluent English required.

Nice to have

• Software development experience with Kotlin or Java, frontend technologies, or mobile technologies.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Solid understanding of AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• Expertise in the Spring Framework.
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and non-relational databases such as MongoDB.
• Familiarity with Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, or similar message queue technologies.
• Experience with AI development tools such as Cursor and Claude Code.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position with hybrid remote and in-person work in Warsaw.
• Work in a fast-paced environment focused on technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Benefits are provided through hirify.global; further details are available from the staffing company.

Hiring process

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