Senior Staff Engineer - Payments

The role

You will be the first tech lead for the Payments squad within the Saldo Billing and Payments Service. You will set technical direction, write design docs, review code, and own the squad's delivery and standards to scale the service.

What you will do

• Take responsibility for the squad's delivery and the standards it works to
• Write specs and design docs, give feedback on ADRs, review pull requests, and solve problems through code or workflows
• Set the payments architecture direction and technical strategy
• Own payment accuracy and processing efficiency to reduce cost-to-process
• Define the squad's operating model and set the pace
• Manage sequencing and dependencies and diagnose throughput problems
• Coach junior engineers and work on hard problems alongside the senior engineer
• Partner on people decisions by flagging promotion and hiring gaps

Required qualifications

• Track record as a Staff Engineer owning squad delivery and standards
• Track record of leading from the front line with design docs, PR/ADR reviews, and hands-on problem solving
• Ability to balance hands-on work with coaching junior engineers
• Experience designing a team's ways of working from scratch
• Experience owning cross-team sequencing and dependencies and diagnosing throughput problems
• Comfort cutting through ambiguity to set technical direction and resolve blockers

Nice to have

• Deep experience with Python (FastAPI) and modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks such as React
• Experience from the payments industry
• Experience improving cost-to-process or processing efficiency in a high-volume service
• Experience taking a service from a basic first version to something built for scale

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock options
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays
• Swap public holidays for the ones that matter most to you
• Birthday off
• Remote first and flexible working
• No internal meetings on Friday afternoons
• Up to GBP1,200 or EUR1,200 per year for remote setup
• Up to GBP150 or EUR150 per month for wellbeing

Before you apply

• First call with Talent Team (30 mins)
• Behaviour Interview with Hiring Manager (60 mins)
• Technical Interview discussing system design and technical Q&A (90 mins)
• Culture-Add Interview with Product and Leadership stakeholders (45 mins)

About the company

tem is a technology company rebuilding the energy transaction to be transparent and fair. They power energy for over 4,000 UK businesses across 8,500+ sites.