Tech Lead - Application Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for backend systems serving Payoneer scale, scalability, performance, security, reliability, and cost.
• Lead by example in hands-on development, own critical code paths, tackle the hardest problems, and set the standard for code quality on the team.
• Own technical design decisions for your domain, lead design reviews, author and review ADRs/RFCs, and design data models and high-performance access layers across SQL and NoSQL stores with explicit attention to schema evolution, query patterns, and scale.
• Partner across Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, and DevOps to define APIs, contracts, and shared platform capabilities that other engineering teams depend on every day.
• Champion a security-first and compliance-aware engineering posture, PCI DSS, PII handling, multi-tenant isolation, secrets management, and secure-by-default patterns are non-negotiable.
• Own and evolve the internal AI tooling playbook, Cursor IDE, Claude Code, Codex CLI, and the next wave, including evaluation of emerging AI coding tools with adoption recommendations grounded in measured trade-offs across developer velocity, code quality, security posture, cost, and lock-in risk.
• Measure the impact of AI-augmented engineering, establish baselines and track outcomes so adoption decisions are evidence-based, not anecdotal.
• Raise the engineering bar across the team, contribute to hiring and calibration, and drive improvements in engineering processes, tooling, and quality standards (CI/CD, testing strategy, developer experience).

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional backend software development experience , with a track record of leading technical direction across complex, distributed systems serving production scale.
• Demonstrated experience leading platform-building efforts end-to-end, from design through production rollout.
• Track record of driving tooling, process, or technical-standard adoption at team or org scale, with measurable productivity or quality outcomes.
• Strong proficiency in a strictly typed language, here, primarily C# and .NET.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS (preferred) or Azure, including production use of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proven experience with both SQL databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL stores (MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, or Cosmos DB), schema design, query optimization, and scaling.
• Solid grounding in distributed systems patterns, microservices, asynchronous messaging, caching, resiliency, idempotency, and REST/event-driven API design, and comfortable owning reliability, performance, and cost outcomes.
• Hands-on experience building AI-based products or features, integrating LLMs, AI APIs, or AI coding assistants into real software, with genuine curiosity about applying AI to platform and infrastructure problems.
• Demonstrated fluency with modern AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI, Copilot, or equivalents).
• Solid understanding of data structures,

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 As a Tech Lead on our Application Infrastructure team , you will own the technical direction, architecture, and evolution of the core platform components that power Payoneer's global financial services. You'll work on highly available, distributed systems that serve millions of customers across 190+ markets, partnering with engineering teams to deliver shared frameworks, libraries, and cloud-native services. This is a role for someone who genuinely loves technology, is energized by AI's impact on how we build software and wants to shape the foundation that the rest of engineering builds on. Location: Gurugram, India Hybrid

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