Lead Engineer - AI Payments App

Overview

Lead Engineer for an AI payments mobile app, responsible for hands-on technical leadership and product/system ownership.

What you'll do

• Lead technical design and execution of major products, features, and engineering initiatives.
• Design scalable, reliable, maintainable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
• Stay hands-on with coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging, and production problem-solving.
• Make architecture decisions and trade-offs across speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Break ambiguous problems into clear engineering solutions and execution plans.
• Set high standards for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability, and production reliability.
• Monitor production post-release, investigate incidents, resolve root causes, and improve reliability.

What you'll need

• Significant experience building and shipping production systems.
• Deep expertise in one or more areas such as backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
• System design and architecture experience making technical decisions for complex or high-scale systems.
• Ability and willingness to remain hands-on with coding and technical execution.
• Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
• Comfort reviewing code and debugging complex issues while working with production systems.

Details

• Location: Philippines.
• Work mode: Remote.