Technical Team Lead – Payments (Fintech)
London | Hybrid (1–2 day onsite p/w)
We are hiring a
hands‑on Tech Team Lead
to join one of the core engineering teams at this
Global Fintech
organisation, working on a
high‑scale, cloud‑native platform
for
cross‑border payments
and global money movement.
This role blends
technical leadership, deep engineering
involvement, and
quality ownership
. You will collaborate closely with backend engineers, QA automation specialists, product stakeholders, and architects to deliver reliable, scalable systems in a regulated fintech environment.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead and mentor backend and QA automation engineers
* Own
services, architecture decisions,
and
testing strategy
* Drive high‑quality
automated testing
across
API, integration
, and
event‑driven systems
* Ensure automated tests are
fully embedded within CI/CD pipelines
* Partner with Product and Architecture on solution design and trade‑offs
* Promote best practices around testability, observability, and reliability
* Support event‑driven and distributed systems
* Participate in architectural discussions, technical reviews, and incident analysis
Mandatory Experience
* Strong commercial
Java
experience
* API automation
in
Java (
RestAssured or similar)
* Test integration
within
CI/CD pipelines
* Solid
SQL
and
relational database
knowledge
* Testing event‑driven architectures (
Kafka
preferred)
* Experience with
Docker
and
AWS
* Hands‑on with mocking tools (
WireMock
preferred)
* Experience in
QA Automation
within complex, distributed systems
Nice to Have
* Kubernetes
* Contract testing (Pact)
* Observability tools (
Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Kibana
)
* Experience in fintech, payments
, or regulated environments
* Exposure to
microservices
and
distributed systems