Team Leader Cloud Modernization

About Payoneer

Founded in 2005 Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders with a mission to connect the worlds underserved businesses to a rising global economy. Were a community with over 2500 colleagues all over the world working to serve customers and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflowsincluding everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management to providing working capital and business intelligencewe give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Location:Herzliya

Hybrid Full-time.

What youll do

The Modernization Team mandate is to identify and solve the deepest most systemic architectural challenges in the platform problems that are too strategic and cross-cutting for any single product team to own yet too impactful to leave unresolved.

It is not a feature team. You do not own a single service or product surface. Instead the team operates as a platform-level force multiplier: it takes on the hardest problems build shared solutions and tooling and enable every product team at Payoneer to move faster and more safely. You will lead the full cycle from the discovery design building and validating solutions unblocking critical initiatives and setting technical direction that other teams can confidently adopt.

This is a brand-new team being built from the ground up. You will have an outsized opportunity to shape how we work what we prioritize and the engineering culture we create together.

Who you are

You are a seasoned hands-on engineering leader with a proven ability to create clarity drive momentum and take ownership in fast-moving complex environments. You excel at breaking down ambiguous problems aligning stakeholders and moving initiatives from concept to execution with urgency and focus.

You bring deep cloud and architectural expertise balancing strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery. You know when to design scalable long-term patterns and when to deliver targeted tactical solutions that unblock teams and accelerate progress across the organization.

You thrive in cross-team environments earning trust influencing without authority and collaborating closely with product architecture security and infrastructure groups to ensure alignment adoption and sustained impact.

Skills you are bringing with you

• 4 years as Team Lead or Tech Lead
• 6 years of experience with backend development preferably C# and
• 6 years of experience with advanced SQL (MSSQL/MySQL/PostgreSQL etc.)
• 4 years of experience with NoSQL database preferably MongoDB
• Experience with building SaaS platforms for cloud-based products preferably AWS
• Experience with Containers and Kubernetes (K8s) preferably EKS
• Experience with Event-Driven Architecture
• Experience with Message Brokers such as RabbitMQ/SQS/Kafka preferably Kafka
• Experience with Microservices development
• Experience with AI tools for leveraging team velocity & quality
• B.S. in computer science or equivalent

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