We are looking for an experienced Tech Lead to join one of our Fintech clients core engineering teams, working on a high-scale, cloud-native fintech platform focused on cross-border payments and money movement.

This role combines technical leadership, hands-on engineering, and quality ownership. The Tech Lead will work closely with Back End engineers, QA automation engineers, and product stakeholders to ensure high engineering standards, system reliability, and scalable solutions in a regulated financial environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of services and testing strategy within the team
• Lead and mentor engineers across Back End and QA automation areas
• Design and enforce high-quality automated testing strategies (API, integration, event-driven systems)
• Ensure test automation is fully integrated into CI/CD pipelines
• Act as a technical partner for Product Owners and Architects, contributing to solution design and trade-offs
• Drive best practices around testability, observability, and reliability
• Support teams working with event-driven and distributed architectures
• Participate in architectural discussions, technical reviews, and incident analysis
• Ensure compliance with fintech quality, stability, and security standards

Mandatory Technical Criteria

• Strong commercial experience with Java
• Hands-on experience with API automation in Java (RestAssured or equivalent)
• Proven experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Solid understanding of SQL and relational databases
• Experience testing event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka preferred, similar technologies acceptable)
• Experience working with Docker and AWS-based environments
• Practical experience with mocking tools (preferably WireMock)
• 5+ years of experience in QA Automation, ideally in complex, distributed systems

Nice to Have/Additional Experience

• Kubernetes (hands-on or working knowledge)
• Contract Testing (eg Pact)
• Observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or Kibana
• Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated environments
• Exposure to microservices and distributed systems design