Head of Engineering at PayInvert Limited

Job Summary

• As Head of Engineering, you will be responsible for overseeing the entire engineering function powering our core payments infrastructure, merchant platforms, APIs, and integrations.
• You will shape engineering culture, drive technical excellence, and ensure our systems scale securely with the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers across DevOps, Backend, Frontend, QA, and Security to build resilient, secure, and scalable fintech infrastructure.
• Develop technical roadmaps in alignment with product and business objectives, especially around payment gateway optimization, platform performance, and API expansion.
• Oversee architectural decisions across services such as payment initiation, settlement processing, fraud prevention, KYC/AML integration, and real-time transaction tracking.
• Drive adherence to engineering best practices including code reviews, testing, and continuous integration.
• Hire, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering teams and future technical leaders.
• Define SLAs, monitor performance metrics, and ensure system uptime meets fintech-grade expectations (99.99%+).
• Work closely with regulatory and compliance teams to ensure security standards like PCI-DSS, SOC2, and ISO27001 are consistently met.
• Collaborate with product, design, and commercial teams to ensure timely and scalable delivery of features.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of progressive software engineering experience with at least 3 years in a senior leadership role.
• Experience leading engineering teams in a fintech, payments, or high-scale transaction processing environment.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, payment routing, microservices, and API security.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), modern backend frameworks, CI/CD, and observability tools.
• Proven ability to scale engineering organizations and set up strong engineering culture.
• Strong technical judgment, business acumen, and stakeholder management skills.