Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead What we’re looking for We are seeking a talented, endlessly curious individual to join our team. You’ll be working closely with our group of companies in the fintech sector as part of the Engineering department. This company is a leading B2B fintech platform in its field, processing over US$2B across multiple currencies annually. We’re looking for individuals who are driven to create meaningful value, take full ownership of what they build, and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. If you’re motivated by impactful work and eager to be part of an innovative team, we’d love to hear from you. What you'll do Lead, mentor, and grow a cross-functional engineering team spanning backend, frontend, mobile, and QA, with a strong emphasis on culture, code quality, and accountability Own end-to-end the platform's external-integration delivery, including API contract design, cross-cloud networking, webhook reliability, and pilot rollout Drive the post-handover hardening of the stack, including security baseline, compliance re-certification readiness, deploy pipeline codification, and operational visibility Collaborate cross-functionally with product, operations, compliance, and the upstream payment ecosystem to ship high-impact features and protect existing partner contracts Guide and mentor mid-level and senior engineers, providing technical leadership through code reviews, design discussions, architecture reviews, and pairing sessions Lead by example in enforcing clean architecture, clear documentation, and reliable observability practices across the team Identify and resolve organisational, technical, and process bottlenecks; improve team velocity, system resilience, and engineering metrics that matter Stay up to date with emerging technologies, hiring-market dynamics, and engineering management practices; propose improvements aligned with business goals Build engineering capability with security and compliance in mind, ensuring proper access control, audit trails, and PCI-DSS / ISO 27001 awareness across the team Hire alongside the Head of Engineering — set the technical bar, define interview rubrics, run debriefs, and own offer decisions across the engineering team What you should have Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. 8+ years engineering experience including 3+ years leading engineering teams. Has led an engineering team of five to fifteen ICs at a payments, fintech, or banking platform company. Has owned a payments, fintech, or banking platform team through compliance work (PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, or local equivalent). Strong backend depth — Python and Django preferred given the platform stack, or comparable production-language depth that lets you read and review Django without friction. Comfortable across the full stack — backend, frontend (Angular), mobile (Flutter), and infrastructure (GCP). Payment domain fluency — scheme, acquirer, and processor model; 3DS, settlement, refund, payout, webhook reliability, idempotency, reconciliation patterns. Deep security and compliance grounding — PCI-DSS scope reduction, KMS-backed encryption, audit-trail design, secret hygiene, OWASP-aware engineering. Cloud infrastructure on GCP (AWS acceptable); IaC familiarity; container and CI/CD pipeline ownership at the team level. Clear written and verbal communication in English; writes design documents, RFCs, and incident post-mortems. High agency on ambiguity; pragmatic on technical-debt vs delivery trade-offs. Has owned incidents end-to-end and modelled on-call accountability for a team. About Us Xenith is a B2B payment service provider focused on enabling seamless cross-border commerce. With an MSB license in Canada and PJP III license in Indonesia, we offer global merchants a one-stop solution to manage multi-currency payments - with a strong focus on alternative payment methods in emerging markets. Our deep regional expertise and strong partnerships with top local gateways, we simplify the complexity of fragmented payment landscapes, helping global merchants expand faster and more efficiently. At Xenith, we believe in building a culture where people feel empowered, trusted, and challenged to do their best work. Join us as we build the financial infrastructure of tomorrow! Department Engineering Role Engineering Lead Locations Vietnam Remote status Hybrid