• Proven experience managing and growing engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Strong ability to drive technical decision-making and manage competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Excellent communication skills to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Solid hands-on backend engineering experience, with proficiency in Golang or similar languages.
• Strong understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures, APIs, and integration patterns.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases.
• Knowledge of secure software development practices and OWASP principles.
• Champion of AI-first development — experience setting standards for AI-assisted coding, automated testing, and code generation using LLMs and tools like Claude Code or similar.
• Experience delivering in agile environments, adapting processes to what actually works for the team.
• Full professional proficiency in English — written and spoken.
• Experience in the payments industry or with PSP integrations.
• Hands-on experience with cloud and DevOps environments (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes).