R&D Team Lead (Backend)

Location: Gurugram - India

Role Summary

We’re looking for a Backend Team Lead who is a tech-enthusiast with a drive for excellence, and an out-of-the-box mindset to satisfy business needs in a complex payment solution environment.

What you’ll be spending your time on:   

• Collaborate closely with Product, Design/UX, DevOps, and other R&D teams. 

• Lead an autonomous team of software engineers who are working closely with product management to achieve business goals. 

• Put special focus on developing the team.  

• Provide technical authority to your team by demonstrating a hands-on leadership style. 

• Be responsible for the overall design, development, architecture, code quality, and production environment deployment of your team.  

What we are looking for:  

• 5 + years of experience as a server-side developer, using C# (a must!), REST APIs, webhooks, and asynchronous communication with Queues/Streams (RabbitMQ and Kafka). 

• 3+ years of experience with SQL (MSSQL/Oracle/MySql/PostgreSQL etc.). 

• 2+ years experience  with observability systems (Dynatrace, Grafana, etc.) 

• 3+ years of managerial experience, leading development of customer-facing products– a must!


• Experience with messaging queues or streams such as RabbitMQ/SQS/Kafka. 

• Broad knowledge of OOP and design patterns. 


• Experience with Microservices. 


• Experience in engineering best practices (writing unit test, code-reviews, testing coverage, agile methodologies). 

• Team player attitude and mentality. 

• Experienced and passionate about managing and growing people. 

• Ambitious and eager to learn new things. 


• B.E / BS in computer science or equivalent degree. 

Not a must but a great advantage: 

• Experience with Redis or alike. 

• Experience with ORM such as Entity Framework. 

• Experience in building SaaS platforms in a cloud-based/hybrid environment. 

Who we are:

Payoneer (NASDAQ: PAYO) is the world’s go-to partner for digital commerce, everywhere. From borderless payments to boundless growth, Payoneer promises any business, in any market, the technology, connections and confidence to participate and flourish in the new global economy. Powering growth for customers ranging from aspiring entrepreneurs in emerging markets to the world’s leading brands, Payoneer offers a universe of opportunities, open to you.