Pepperstone

Engineering Team Lead

Pepperstone

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Budapest • 🇭🇺 Hungary

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSDistributed SystemsGoJavaKotlinReactRustTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • Lead and mentor a team of 6–8 engineers, providing technical direction, guidance, and regular feedback.
  • Own the delivery of high-quality payments features built with React, Go, and modern tooling.
  • Make architectural and design decisions to ensure long-term maintainability, scalability, and performance.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, UX designers, QA, and platform engineers to align on priorities and deliver value.
  • Drive agile execution within your team, including planning, estimation, standups, refinements, retrospectives, and delivery tracking.
  • Support team members' professional growth through coaching, structured feedback, and development planning.
  • Maintain high standards of code quality, testing, and automation.
  • Serve as the technical escalation point, unblocking issues and enabling fast, effective delivery.
  • Partner with business analysts and UX to clarify requirements, raise risks, and contribute ideas to improve solutions.
  • Drive goal setting and career progression for your squad.
  • Provide On-call support for our Payments service

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proven experience in leading or managing a software engineering team (team lead, tech lead, or engineering manager role).
  • Hands-on experience with Go / Java / Kotlin / Rust
  • Expertise in TypeScript, React, and front-end development
  • Hands-on experience with AWS
  • Strong understanding of architectural patterns, distributed systems.
  • Solid understanding with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (e.g., GitHub Actions, Terraform).
  • Strong background in agile practices, including running ceremonies and delivering iteratively.
  • Clear communicator who can align teams, clarify direction, and facilitate cross-functional collaboration.
  • Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and grow engineers, supporting their career progression.
  • Payments, fintech, or banking experience is a plus.
  • Experience working in multi-country or globally distributed teams is a plus.
  • Self-driven, proactive, and tech-savvy
Benefits
  • Competitive salary structure including company bonus scheme
  • Genuinely collaborative and friendly culture
  • Flexible and hybrid working
  • Remote working option - work from anywhere for up to 6 weeks per year
  • Ongoing personal development & learning opportunities
  • 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program
  • Periodic recognition and reward programs for outstanding performance and achievements
  • Frequent events and celebrations
  • Comprehensive medical insurance with coverage for your healthcare needs
  • Pension fund
  • Employee Assistance Program & Wellbeing Initiatives
  • Convenient and cozy office located near Astoria at KLUSTER Coworking

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
GoJavaKotlinRustTypeScriptReactAWSCI/CDGitHub ActionsTerraform
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationcoachingproactiveself-drivenfeedbackgoal settingproblem solving