Team Lead Backend Developer (Node.js) - Fintech Solution (Portugal)
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- משרה מלאה, רילוקישיין
The Role:⚡ We are looking for an experienced Team Lead Backend Developer (Node.js) to join our development team in Lisbon. This is a highly hands-on role: you will lead a cross-functional team, actively writing and reviewing code, shaping architecture, and driving technical excellence. You will play a key role in building high-performance payment systems, ensuring scalability and security for real-money transactions.
🎯 Your Mission:
Lead a cross-functional team of engineers, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, secure, and timely releases for our in-house payment gateway. You will be deeply involved in coding, architectural decisions for microservices, and system improvements, all while mentoring your team and fostering a collaborative, transparent, and growth-oriented environment within the fintech domain.Responsibilities:
✅ Responsibilities:
• Manages a cross-functional team of engineers by conducting activities such as periodic feedback, one-to-one sessions, performance evaluations, and preparing individual development plans for direct reports.Helps manage resources within the team, assigns tasks, and ensures a balanced workload among engineers.
• Personally engages in product development, writing and reviewing code, and delivering periodic product improvements.
• Leads the development of the in-house fintech platform with a focus on performance, scalability, and security.
• Builds and manages complex payment API integrations with banks, PSPs, and third-party services.
• Participates in agile ceremonies (Scrum/Kanban) to ensure team alignment and adherence to agile best practices.
• Improves platform quality by refactoring code, identifying and resolving technical debt, and optimizing architecture for high-load integrations.
• Creates solution designs and determines technical implementations for product changes, specifically regarding microservices and messaging systems.
• Supports Engineering Managers in creating new guidelines and ensuring domain knowledge of payment flows is well documented.