Description:
Team Lead
About The Team
At the core of Deel’s FinTech platform, responsible for building and operating client and contractor wallets across our regulated entities globally. This is a mission-critical domain where accuracy, compliance, and reliability are non-negotiable.
Scope & Responsibilities
- Lead the fintech engineering team to design, build, and scale wallet infrastructure for global deel's users.
- Work with different teams to integrate wallets with regional banks through PSPs (via APIs), orchestrating pay-ins and ensuring seamless treasury operations.
- Depending on the project, you may collaborate with the Core Accounting team to connect wallets with the General Ledger (GL), ensuring balances are accurate and financial records meet audit standards.
- Work closely with Compliance, Treasury, and PSP Integration teams to ensure adherence to local regulations (MTL, PI, safeguarding requirements).
- Provide technical leadership in a global, fast-paced environment where uptime and precision are critical.
- Responsible for leading a high-performing engineering team, including running daily stand-ups, planning sessions, and backlog grooming.
What We’re Looking For
- Location: Based in EMEA, with high availability for global collaboration.
- Background: Proven experience as a Team Lead or Manager in payments, banking, accounting, or treasury.
- FinTech Expertise: Hands-on wallets, flows of funds, compliance, and regulated money movement. Prior experience at companies like Wise, PayPal, or similar is a strong plus.
- Technical Skills:
- JavaScript/Node.js
- PostgreSQL with Sequelize ORM
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and API-driven banking/PSP integrations
- Leadership: Ability to run projects at scale, mentor engineers, and drive cross-functional alignment.
- Mindset: Ownership, detail-oriented, and mindful of the responsibility of managing other people’s money.
- Important note: This role will remain technically hands-on, with responsibilities divided between people management and hands-on tasks.