Engineering Tech Lead (Payments)

Position Summary

This role:

We’re looking for someone with passion for and experience with e-commerce and payments. As the Technical Lead for our Direct-to-Consumer Payment Platform, you’ll own the platform responsible for moving over 100m in revenue through our DTC web stores across multiple games. You’ll drive the technical vision, run a product team, and own the business outcomes for the platform. The role is a blend of architectural ownership, individual contribution, and people management. You’ll be responsible for driving platform stability, observability and high-trust user experience while enabling streamlined integration with third party payment providers.

Who you are:

We’re looking for someone eager to innovate and challenge the status quo. You’re willing to take risks and own outcomes. You embrace working with others to overcome challenging problems. You speak up when you have ideas and welcome debate. You learn what you need to know, teach what you already know, and encourage the same in others. You lead your team and influence internal partners to build best-in-class products.

Who we are:

We’re a team of huge nerds distributed around the world working on SciPlay’s modern platform for our games – the Payments Platform is just one piece of it. We thrive when we solve problems together and when we challenge each other. We strive to continually improve our skills and our culture, both in our team and throughout the company. We build empowered product teams with autonomy to make decisions and experiment to solve business problems, and we provide a cushion when things go sideways.

It’s hard, and we love it.

What we’ll do together:

We’ll solve cool problems. We’ll build new products. We’ll develop new features.

We’ll primarily work in C#/.NET and React/Typescript in AWS, but we also regularly touch ADO, SQL, and Terraform, with some Python and PHP splashed into the mix.

Have some of that but not all of it? Our team will help you fill in the gaps. We care more about how you think and solve problems than syntax.

If we sound like the kind of people you want to work with, let’s talk.

Essential Job Functions:

• Own architectural decisions across the platform, setting direction for stability, scalability, observability, security and customer trust:
• Increase release confidence using canary deployments and feature flags and gate releases with error budgets.
• Use event-driven architectures to guarantee idempotent changes and maintain ledger integrity.
• Protect PCI/PII with tokenization, IAM segmentation and secrets management.
• Guide integration strategies with third-party payment providers and external services, accounting for high uptime via health-based routing and sticky failover.
• Contribute directly to backend and frontend code, setting quality standards by example.
• Mentor and coach a team of 2 full stack developers, 2 QA analysts and 1 SDET, fostering technical growth and career development. You’ll have support from a product manager and development manager.
• Collaborate with product to set priorities, focusing on business outcomes including reducing friction, latency and chargebacks while increasing trust and satisfaction for our customers.
• Balance IC work with managing workloads, performance, and the development of your team. This role is approximately 40% technical leadership, 40% IC, and 20% people management.

Qualifications:

• Strong in microservice development (C#/.NET preferred), frontend frameworks (React/TS preferred) and cloud engineering/IaC (AWS/Terraform preferred).
• Experience with third party payment providers like Stripe or Braintree.
• Experience building robust, secure and observable cloud architectures for e-commerce systems.
• Experience leading through influence, focusing on outcomes over outputs.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow software developers, QA analysts and SDETs.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to partner across engineering, product and business teams.
• A customer-first mindset with focus on usability, trust, and measurable business results.

What Success Looks Like (6-12 months):

• +2-3pp increase in checkout success with stable latency
• PSP brownout failovers happen automatically and safely
• Ledger/entitlement integrity & reconciliation SLA defined and in the green quarter-over-quarter