Technical Lead

Technical Lead / Principal Engineer | Stockholm

We are hiring multiple Technical Leads / Principal Engineers across several product and platform teams within a global fintech environment operating at significant scale.

Tech stack (you must have strong experience with AWS as well as one of the following pairings):

• Java Backend

• Python Backend

• Python Full Stack (Python + React)

• Node Full Stack (Node, TypeScript, React)

Do not apply if you are not at technical lead / principal level

These teams sit across Payments, Banking infrastructure, Dunning and Collections, Reconciliation, Risk and Core Platform – all mission-critical systems processing millions of transactions and financial events daily.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will own technical direction, drive architectural decisions and raise engineering standards while still contributing meaningful code.

What you will be doing:

• Leading system design and architectural decisions for high-scale distributed systems

• Owning technical strategy within your team and influencing cross-team engineering standards

• Mentoring senior engineers and shaping technical culture

• Driving modernisation, performance optimisation and resilience improvements

• Partnering closely with Product, Data and Risk teams to deliver business-critical initiatives

• Ensuring high reliability, observability and maintainability across complex systems

We are particularly interested in engineers who have:

• Built and scaled high-throughput payment or financial systems

• Worked on banking infrastructure, ledgering, reconciliation engines or transaction processing systems

• Led dunning, collections, credit or risk platforms

• Designed APIs and event-driven architectures in distributed environments

• Strong experience with cloud-native systems and modern DevOps practices

You should bring:

• Principal or senior technical leadership experience

• Deep backend engineering and AWS expertise

• Strong system design skills across distributed systems

• A product mindset with commercial awareness

• Experience operating in high-growth fintech or large-scale tech environments