Tech Lead Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Tech Lead Engineer (Fintech): Leading the Orchestration team and owning the Payment Router component with an accent on high-load distributed systems, reliability, and low-latency architecture. Focus on mentoring the team, driving technical strategy, and balancing feature delivery with architectural improvements.

Location: Ukraine

Company

hirify.global is a global payments orchestration platform providing financial infrastructure for internet businesses.

What you will do

• Lead the team technically and manage people, including mentoring and setting processes.
• Design key services within a distributed system architecture.
• Build new functionality while supporting and improving existing services.
• Make architectural decisions and define the long-term technical direction.
• Balance priorities between routing migration, feature shipping, and reducing technical debt.
• Spend 50–60% of time hands-on coding.

Requirements

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Strong experience with distributed systems and high-load system design.
• Solid experience with PostgreSQL and message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Strong backend skills in a statically typed language.
• People-management experience or readiness to grow into a lead role.
• Proactive, ownership-driven mindset with strong communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Go, AWS SQS, Buf, Protobuf, or Node.js.
• Background in fintech or payments.
• Experience with no-code/low-code automation.

Culture & Benefits

• 30+ days off and unlimited sick leave.
• Health coverage and free office meals.
• Apple hardware provided.
• Budget for courses, conferences, and sports/wellness.
• Modern engineering culture with automated CI/CD and high testing standards.