R&D Team Lead (Fullstack)
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Responsibilities
- Leadership & People Management
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of frontend engineers
- Set clear technical and delivery expectations, provide regular feedback, and support career growth
- Build a strong engineering culture around ownership, quality, and continuous improvement
- Frontend Platform Ownership
- Own the frontend platform vision and roadmap , focusing on scalability, performance, and developer experience
- Define and evolve shared frontend foundations: design systems, component libraries, tooling, and CI/CD pipelines
- Drive standardization while enabling team autonomy
- Micro-Frontend Architecture
- Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of micro-frontend architecture
- Define best practices for module federation, deployment independence, versioning, and cross-team integration
- Ensure seamless composition, performance optimization, and runtime stability across micro-frontends
- Delivery & Outcomes
- Own end-to-end delivery outcomes - from requirements and architecture to release, monitoring, and iteration
- Balance speed and quality through strong engineering practices (testing, observability, performance budgets)
- Partner with Product and Design to translate business goals into scalable frontend solutions
- Technical Excellence
- Be hands-on at the architectural level; guide critical technical decisions and reviews
- Drive adoption of modern frontend technologies and patterns
- Proactively address frontend performance, accessibility, security, and reliability
- Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of frontend engineering experience, with 2+ years managing frontend teams
- Strong experience building and scaling frontend platforms
- Proven hands-on expertise with micro-frontend architectures (e.g., Module Federation, single-spa, or equivalent)
- Deep knowledge of modern frontend stacks (React preferred), state management, build systems, and tooling
- Experience owning large-scale frontend systems used by multiple teams
Requirements
- Experience leading platform teams serving multiple product teams
- Strong understanding of design systems and cross-functional collaboration with Design
- Experience in B2B or high-scale consumer products
- Exposure to performance optimization at scale
- What Success Looks Like
- A scalable, reliable frontend platform enabling fast, independent team delivery
- High-quality micro-frontend architecture with strong performance and developer experience
- Frontend teams that consistently deliver outcomes, not just features
- Engineers who feel supported, challenged, and growing
- Take ownership of team growth, recruitment, and development processes.
- A collaborative team player with strong leadership and communication skills.
- High proficiency in English, both written and verbal.
- A passion for managing and growing talent.
- Ambition and a strong eagerness to learn and adapt.
- Global Leadership Experience is a must.
- Experience in managing at least 3-4 development teams.
- What could set you apart:
- Education: B.Sc. in Computer Science or a related field is required.
- Leadership: 5+ years of managerial experience, leading large development groups or overseeing R&D in small/medium companies.
- Development: 5+ years as a developer with full-stack experience (e.g., C#, .NET, Java).
- Technical Expertise: Proficiency with REST APIs, Queues, and Microservices architecture and database experience.
- Architectural Knowledge: Strong understanding of OOP, design patterns, and system development (not just services).
- Engineering Practices: Expertise in code reviews, test coverage, and agile methodologies.
- The Payoneer Ways of Working
- Act as our customer's partner on the inside
- Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further.
- Do it. Own it.
- Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do.
- Continuously impr
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Additional Information
About Payoneer Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world's underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We're a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories. By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows-including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence-we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence. Role summary We are looking for a Frontend Engineering Manager to lead our Frontend Platform and Micro-Frontend architecture. This role owns frontend engineering outcomes end-to-end from platform strategy and architecture to delivery excellence, quality, and developer productivity. You will manage and grow high-performing frontend teams, define platform standards, and partner closely with Product, Design, and Backend leaders to build scalable, high-quality user experiences.
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