Software Engineering Lead - Payments

Job Title: Software Engineering Lead (Full Stack)

Location: Remote (India)

Department: Engineering

We are seeking a Software Engineering Lead to establish Phoenix's payments platform. You'll be responsible for building the shared services, APIs, developer tooling, and reliability foundations that empower all product teams. This is a hands-on role where you will design and implement core payments platform capabilities while laying the groundwork for a future platform team. Working closely with product engineers, you'll ensure the platform enables speed, consistency, and scalability as Phoenix grows.

About Phoenix

Phoenix Technologies is building the world's most adaptable ecommerce infrastructure, giving ambitious merchants total freedom to grow, scale, and innovate faster than legacy platforms allow. In just 18 months, Phoenix has scaled to 8-figure ARR, achieved profitability, and completed its Series A. Our mission is to replace the patchwork of outdated checkout tools, niche SaaS platforms, and restrictive app ecosystems with a unified, intelligent, full-stack platform.

The future of ecommerce tooling by merchants for merchants.

Position Summary

We are seeking an Payments Engineering Lead to own a focused product domain within Phoenix's ecommerce platform and guide a small team in delivering high-impact features. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with team mentorship and close collaboration with product and design. You'll architect scalable solutions, drive execution within your pod, and ensure the delivery of high-quality features that directly improve merchant success.

Key Responsibilities

As Engineering Lead, you will:

• Own your domain: lead the design and development of key features such as checkout flows, payment processing, subscriptions, or merchant dashboards.
• Set technical direction: define architecture and implementation strategies that ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Drive delivery: partner with product managers and designers to translate requirements into technical plans, estimate work, and deliver consistently against roadmaps.
• Ensure quality & reliability: establish coding standards, testing practices, and observability for your team's services; contribute to on-call in rotation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: participate in technical discussions that impact the broader platform, and incorporate feedback from customer success and support.
• Build for the future: identify and resolve technical debt, improve system performance, and contribute to hiring as Phoenix grows.

Qualifications

• Strong Knowledge of ecommerce systems, payment processing, or merchant-facing applications.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to collaborate across distributed engineering, product, and design teams.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years leading teams or technical projects.
• Strong proficiency in modern web technologies and frameworks (Typescript, React, Node.js, NestJS, ).
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native technologies (AWS or GCP).
• Proficiency in TypeScript and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Solid understanding of database design, API development, and system integration patterns.
• Proven ability to debug and resolve complex distributed system and performance issues.
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies and best practices (CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews).
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to hiring processes.
• Startup mindset: proven ability to thrive in high-growth, fast-paced environments.

Phoenix Values

We take these values seriously as a company, please do apply if you're not aligned with them.

All In to Win We operate with urgency, intensity, and a relentless bar for excellence. The mission comes before ego, comfort, or recognition. We adapt under pressure and do whatever it takes for the team to succeed. We are ready to sacrifice individually in order to win as a team.

A Players Only We only hire, develop, and keep A players; people who raise the bar, solve problems proactively, and make the company better every day. B players, even if they are good enough, create drag, lower standards, and slow us down. We protect talent density by coaching quickly, deciding decisively, and surrounding ourselves only with the best. If we're not constantly improving as individuals, then we're not good enough.

Merchant First Our merchants are the reason we exist, and they always come first. We listen closely, treat them with respect, and build for their long-term success. Every decision is measured by its impact on merchants.

Entrepreneurial Spirit We move like a Day One company fast, scrappy, and hungry to win. Everyone thinks and acts like an owner, taking full accountability. We dream big, execute boldly, and never settle.

Engaged Intelligence We seek to deeply understand what we're building and why it matters. We debate and dissent with respect to find the best answers, then commit fully. Curiosity, preparation, and clear communication are the standard.