Engineering Team Lead at Roamtech

• We are looking for an Engineering Team Lead who is passionate about technology, people, and delivering impactful products. You will lead a cross‑functional engineering team, guide technical execution, and ensure the team thrives in a high‑velocity environment. This role is both hands‑on and leadership‑focused.

What You will Do

Team Leadership & Culture

• Lead, mentor, and grow a talented team of engineers.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, continuous improvement, and psychological safety.
• Promote Roamtech’s values of innovation, agility, and learning.

Technical Leadership

• Provide architectural guidance and ensure high‑quality engineering practices.
• Drive technical decision‑making and ensure alignment with long‑term product vision.
• Participate in design sessions, code reviews, and hands‑on coding when needed.

Execution & Delivery

• Run efficient lean Scrum processes with your team.
• Ensure predictable delivery of high‑impact features.
• Remove blockers and empower the team to move fast without compromising quality.

Collaboration

• Partner closely with Product Managers, Designers, Data teams, and other engineering teams.
• Facilitate effective communication and alignment across stakeholders.
• Ensure engineering decisions support business goals and user needs.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles, strategic and tactical patterns.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.
• Experience in FinTech, payments, or high‑scale transactional systems.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.
• If you’re excited to lead impactful engineering teams in a global FinTech with startup energy, we’d love to hear from you.
• Apply now and help shape the future of financial technology at Roamtech.

Requirements

What We are Looking For

Required

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with 1–3 years in a leadership role.
• Solid experience with PHP, including working with and modernizing legacy systems.
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (Go preferred).
• Strong understanding of cloud-native engineering; experience with GCP is a major plus.
• Strong understanding of advanced engineering and architectural concepts — not just coding, but engineering system design.
• Proven track record of shipping high-quality products in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong technical background in modern software development (preferred: backend services, APIs, cloud technologies, or distributed systems).
• Understanding of modern engineering architectures such as Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Event-Driven Architectures (EDA), and Event Sourcing.
• Experience with agile development, preferably lean Scrum.
• Excellent communication and people-leadership skills.
• Ability to balance delivery speed with technical excellence.