IT Tech Lead

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Tech Lead – Payments and Billing based in Netherlands. You’ll set the technical direction while remaining deeply involved in design, code reviews, architecture, and solving complex engineering problems alongside the team. You’ll work with a team of experienced and developing engineers, establishing ways of working that balance speed, quality, and resilience. It’s an opportunity to shape a core financial system from an early stage and grow it into infrastructure capable of supporting significant transaction volumes. Accountabilities: - Own the overall delivery outcomes of the Payments squad, ensuring the team consistently delivers reliable, high-quality software and maintains strong engineering standards. - Solve the most complex technical problems alongside the engineering team while maintaining a clear long-term technical vision. - Establish the squad’s operating model, defining effective ways of working and balancing delivery speed with quality, resilience, and maintainability. - Manage technical sequencing, cross-team dependencies, and delivery priorities while ensuring the squad’s progress and challenges remain visible to relevant stakeholders. - Coach junior engineers and work closely with senior engineers to raise technical quality, development speed, and engineering consistency across the squad. - Requirements: - Proven experience as a Tech Lead or equivalent technical leader , with ownership of a team’s delivery outcomes and engineering standards. - Experience establishing a team’s engineering practices and ways of working from the ground up, with a pragmatic approach to balancing speed, quality, reliability, and resilience. - Demonstrated ability to manage cross-team sequencing and dependencies and diagnose the underlying causes of delivery or throughput problems.