Team Lead Software Engineer - Billing Squad

About the Company: C Teleport

C Teleport (cteleport.com) — an AI-powered platform for business travel management in the B2B segment. Similar to Booking.com, but for corporate clients: booking, modifying, and canceling flights and hotels — all in one interface.

The product includes three platforms:

• Business Travel Platform
• Marine & Offshore Travel Platform
• Flight Crew Travel Platform

How AI is used: for intelligent search and unique cancellation/modification options for bookings. Companies manage all bookings and budgets in one place.

Facts:

• Founded: 2017
• Headquarters: Rotterdam, Netherlands (city center office)
• Team: ~200 people, including 50 IT specialists
• Work format: 50% office / 50% remote
• Thousands of users worldwide, continuing to grow rapidly

About the Role

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer for the Billing Squad — one of the business-critical teams. This is a technical leadership role for someone who writes code, not just manages people.

Philosophy: "Leadership is earned at the keyboard, not the standup" — a lead who takes ownership of technical decisions, knows how to communicate with business stakeholders, and turns requirements into technical work. Culture of "agree or disagree, but commit."

Team: 2 senior full-time developers + 1 QA. They work remotely across European time zones, with office presence in Rotterdam.

Responsibilities

• Write code in C# / .NET (the role requires substantial hands-on coding)
• Technically lead the Billing Squad: code review, mentoring, participating in hiring
• Communicate with VP and C-level stakeholders, transform business requirements into technical tasks
• Design and evolve microservices architecture using Docker
• Work with PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ (or equivalents)
• Apply architectural patterns: SOLID, TDD, DDD, Event Sourcing, CQRS
• Participate in developing the billing/payments/invoicing domain, ERP integrations

Requirements

Mandatory (hard requirements):

• 7+ years of development experience in C# / .NET — deep expertise
• 2+ years in a Team Lead or equivalent role (technical leadership)
• PostgreSQL — experience with relational databases
• RabbitMQ or similar message brokers
• Microservices + Docker
• Architectural patterns: SOLID, TDD, DDD, Event Sourcing, CQRS
• Technical leadership: code review, mentoring, hiring
• English — strong, able to work with C-level (written and spoken at negotiation level)
• Proven experience managing VP and C-level stakeholders

Nice-to-have:

• AWS or Kubernetes
• Experience in billing, invoicing, payments, ERP integrations
• Knowledge of VAT/GST, accounting principles, revenue recognition
• Redis (additional platform service)
• Elasticsearch

Soft skills / psychological profile:

• A lead who writes code and doesn't avoid it
• Takes ownership of technical decisions
• Can communicate with business stakeholders
• Deep domain immersion (no job-hopping)

Conditions

• Salary: €7,000 – €8,000 gross/month
• Contract: Full-time, permanent employment
• Work format: Hybrid. Physical presence in the Netherlands required (Rotterdam office)
• Benefits:
• Hybrid work from the Rotterdam office
• Work-life balance policy
• Growth at the intersection of travel, finance, and engineering
• Municipality parking card (for office employees)

Selection Process

Stages:

1. Recruiter screening — including knockout questions
2. HR call with Hiring Manager
3. Technical call — CTO + Lead Engineer (1 or 2 separate calls, depending on schedule)
4. Meet-the-Team — informal chemistry check with future team colleagues
5. Pre-employment Background Check via 3rd party (as part of ISO 27001 compliance)

Interview language: English