Backend Lead Engineer - Payments Platform (Remote)
Summary
Lead engineer building and scaling backend systems for card issuing and payments across African markets, while managing the engineering team and ensuring production reliability.
Scale is hiring a Backend Lead Engineer to own our backend from spec to production and scale across African markets. This hands-on role involves architecting and building backend systems for card issuing and payments, with collaboration across product, ops, and bank/scheme partners.
You will lead and grow the engineering team, own on-call incidents, and drive production reliability as we expand into multiple markets. Remote-friendly, with options for hybrid work in Johannesburg.