Who you are You are a seasoned, hands-on, engineering leader with a proven ability to create clarity, drive momentum, and take ownership in fast-moving, complex environments. You excel at breaking down ambiguous problems, aligning stakeholders, and moving initiatives from concept to execution with urgency and focus. You bring deep cloud and architectural expertise, balancing strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery. You know when to design scalable, long-term patterns and when to deliver targeted, tactical solutions that unblock teams and accelerate progress across the organization. You thrive in cross-team environments, earning trust, influencing without authority, and collaborating closely with product, architecture, security, and infrastructure groups to ensure alignment, adoption, and sustained impact. Skills you are bringing with you 4+ years as Team Lead 6+ years of experience with backend development, preferably C# and Node.js 6+ years of experience with advanced SQL (MSSQL/MySQL/PostgreSQL, etc.) 4+ years of experience with NoSQL database, preferably MongoDB Experience with building SaaS platforms for cloud-based products, preferably AWS Experience with Containers and Kubernetes (K8s), preferably EKS Experience with Event-Driven Architecture Experience with Message Brokers such as RabbitMQ/SQS/Kafka, preferably Kafka Experience with Microservices development Experience with AI tools for leveraging team velocity & quality B.S. in computer science or equivalent #LI-CD1 The Payoneer Ways of Working Act as our customer’s partner on the inside Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further. Do it. Own it. Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do. Continuously improve Always striving for a higher standard than our last. Build each other up Helping each other grow, as professionals and people. If this sounds like a business, a commu