Tech Lead

pbThis position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Tech Lead (Backend): Billing Fees based in Italy. /b /p pThis is an opportunity to lead the technical evolution of a critical billing platform within a growing financial technology environment. You will shape the architecture and roadmap for services that manage fee configuration, transaction calculations, invoicing, adjustments, and reconciliation. The role focuses on replacing manual processes with automated, scalable infrastructure that supports increasingly complex commercial agreements and high transaction volumes. You will combine hands‑on backend engineering with technical leadership, guiding architecture decisions and mentoring engineers. Working closely with Product, Finance, Commercial, and other engineering teams, you will translate complex financial requirements into reliable software solutions. The position offers a hybrid or remote working approach within an international, distributed environment. /p h3Accountabilities /h3 ul liOwn the technical direction, architecture, and engineering roadmap for the Billing Fees subdomain, ensuring the platform supports evolving commercial models, transaction volumes, and operational requirements. /li liDesign, develop, and maintain scalable billing services covering fee policy configuration, fee calculation, invoice generation, billing adjustments, and reconciliation. /li liReplace manual billing workflows with automated, reliable processes that improve operational efficiency and reduce errors. /li liBuild and maintain robust data pipelines and integrations across systems such as Snowflake, Salesforce, Ledger, and internal financial services, ensuring accurate data flows from transaction processing through invoicing and reporting. /li liEstablish engineering practices that protect financial accuracy and auditability, including idempotency, traceability, reconciliation, exception handling, and comprehensive audit trails. /li liLead technical design submissions, architecture reviews, and service design, applying domain-driven design, hexagonal architecture, and event-driven patterns. /li liRemain hands‑on in production code development, technical design, and code reviews while mentoring engineers, resolving complex challenges, and raising engineering standards. /li liCollaborate with Product, Finance, Commercial, Back Office, Ledger, Digital Assets, and Fiat teams to translate business requirements into clear technical solutions and reliable integrations. /li liDrive operational excellence by establishing standards for observability, monitoring, performance, incident response, and service recovery. /li liGuide the team in managing production workloads, including message-processing failures, dead-letter queues, incident resolution, and system resilience. /li liSet expectations for testing, CI/CD, documentation, and technical debt management to ensure consistent delivery and long‑term platform maintainability. /li liBalance delivery speed, scalability, reliability, and business priorities while maintaining ownership of business‑critical services. /li /ul h3Requirements /h3 ul liAt least 7 years of backend software engineering experience, with strong hands‑on expertise in Java or Kotlin and Spring Boot. /li liExperience leading technical initiatives or providing technical guidance and leadership to other engineers. /li liProven ability to design and deliver complex, distributed, production‑grade systems. /li liStrong knowledge of microservices and event‑driven architectures, including technologies such as Kafka and AWS SQS. /li liExperience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL and caching technologies such as Redis. /li liBackground working with financially sensitive systems, such as billing, invoicing, payments, ledgers, fee calculation, or reconciliation platforms, where accuracy, consistency, auditability, and reliability are essential. /li liStrong architectural knowledge, including domain‑driven design, hexagonal architecture, service decomposition, bounded contexts, and asynchronous communication patterns. /li liDemonstrated ability to own technical architecture and make sound engineering decisions while balancing scalability, reliability, delivery timelines, and business requirements. /li liStrong API design experience, including developing and evolving RESTful APIs, maintaining backward compatibility, and establishing reliable integration patterns. /li liSolid understanding of financial data integrity in distributed environments, including transactional consistency, idempotency, error recovery, and reconciliation. /li liExperience mentoring engineers through technical design, code reviews, problem‑solving, and complex delivery challenges. /li liA strong production ownership mindset, including experience operating business‑critical systems, participating in on‑call rotations, and managing incidents