Team Lead, Engineering, Fintech

Location

Romania; Albania; Belarus; Belgium; Brazil; Egypt; EMEA; Estonia; Germany; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Portugal; Serbia; South Africa; Spain; Tunisia; UK

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

R&D; Engineering; Finance & Payments

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, 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.
• Lead 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.

Why This Role Matters

This team is the foundation of Deel's regulated money movement. The work ensures client funds are safe, compliant, and seamlessly accessible worldwide.

Total Rewards

Our workforce deserves fair and competitive pay that meets them where they are. With scalable benefits, rewards, and perks, our total rewards programs reflect our commitment to inclusivity and access for all.

Some things you'll enjoy

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Deel, we're an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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