Treasury Engineering Team Lead | EMEA

Who we are is what we do.

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that drives continuous learning and innovation for our customers.

Why should you be part of our success story?

As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies – breaking down borders that have traditionally limited both hiring and career opportunities. We're not just building software; we're creating the infrastructure for the future of work, enabling a more diverse and inclusive global economy. In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries—ensuring people get paid and protected, no matter where they are.

Our momentum is reflected in our achievements and customer satisfaction: CNBC Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Fast 500, and repeated recognition on Y Combinator's top companies list – all while maintaining a 4.83 average rating from 15,000 reviews across G2, Trustpilot, Captera, Apple and Google.

Your experience at Deel will be a career accelerator. At the forefront of the global work revolution, you'll tackle complex challenges that impact millions of people's working lives. With our momentum—backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 B in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years—you'll drive meaningful impact while building expertise that makes you a sought-after leader in the transformation of global work.

The mission

Lead the engineering team behind Deel’s treasury. Your team builds and runs the systems that connect to our banks, pull in and reconcile every money movement, and keep our accounting correct across thousands of bank accounts. You will set the direction, grow the team, and act as the bridge between finance and engineering.

Why this role exists

Deel moves money for more than 40,000 companies and their workers around the world. Every payout, bank transfer, tax payment and cash movement has to be tracked, reconciled and accounted for. Treasury already handles over 1,000 accounts and a large volume of data, and the scope is growing faster than the team. This role exists to give that work a leader who can make it scale.

Why this is an exciting opportunity

• Scale and complexity. You will work on thousands of bank accounts, a large volume of financial data, and real fintech problems with direct business impact.

• High stakes. Deel is preparing for an IPO, and the work you lead will shape how the company closes, reports and proves its numbers.

• Breadth. Your scope covers banking integrations, data pulling, reconciliation of transactions, and tax and cash activity across all of Deel’s money movements.

• Influence. You will work closely with Finance, AP and Invoice teams, and you will translate between finance and engineering in both directions.

• A growing team. You will lead a team of around 10 across backend, frontend and QA, and you will shape how it grows.

How we measure the team

• Close time. Books are reconciled and closed within a couple of business days.

• Reconciliation accuracy. Unexplained differences across bank accounts keep trending down.

• Intent-to-completion failure rate. For each money movement, we measure how often the action does not finish as the user intended, and we drive that rate down.

• Alert quality. Fewer alerts, and each one is real and actionable.

What you’ll own

Lead and grow the team

• Hiring. Define hiring needs for backend, frontend and QA, and run a rigorous, fair process to bring in strong engineers who can handle the scope.

• Coaching. Give regular, specific feedback, set growth goals with each engineer, and build the skills the team needs in fintech, AI-native engineering and production ownership.

• Delivery. Set priorities, plan the work with Finance and Engineering stakeholders, and keep the team focused on the outcomes that matter most.

• Team health. Create the conditions for people to do their best work, and address blockers early.

Run the treasury platform

• Own banking integrations, transaction reconciliation, and data pipelines for money movements, tax activity and cash activity.

• Instrument financial flows end to end, from the user’s intent through the settled transaction to the accounting entry.

• Build monitors and reconciliations that catch silent failures: duplicates, stuck states, mismatched balances and partner-side drift.

Resolve problems at the root

• Lead investigations across payment service providers, ledgers, wallets, payouts, cards and crypto rails.

• Fix the code, data model or integration that caused the problem. Do not stop at the workaround.

• Make operations idempotent, observable and safe to retry. Turn every postmortem lesson into a guard, a test or a monitor.

Build the tools that do this work

• Drive the use of AI agents that triage alerts, investigate with read-only data access, propose or apply fixes, and verify the result.

• Design safe autonomy with maker-checker validation, clear escalation to a person when confidence is low, and full audit trails.

Bridge finance and engineering

• Translate finance requirements into engineering work, and engineering constraints into terms finance can plan around.

• Balance the demands of a busy finance organization with the need to build durable systems.

What you’ll bring

• Fintech domain experience. You have built fintech systems or worked inside the financial domain. This is a must.

• Engineering leadership. You have long years of experience, including at least 1 year of experience leading engineering teams and driving delivery in complex environments.

• Hiring and coaching experience. You have hired engineers, given direct feedback, and grown people into stronger engineers and leaders.

• You are AI-native. You use AI coding and agent tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex to their full potential. You run agents in parallel, write specs and skills that agents run, and review their output with rigor. You also know when not to use AI.

• Strong backend engineering. You are ideally proficient in Node.js and TypeScript, and you have SQL depth at the database level as well as PostgreSQL experience. We are open to other server-side stacks if you are comfortable working with Node.js and TypeScript.

• Production ownership. You have debugged live, high-volume systems and fixed root causes. You understand concurrency, idempotency, retries, queues and eventual consistency.

• Cross-functional communication. You can explain a financial incident to engineers and to finance partners, and you can translate between the two.

You’re the leader we’re looking for if you

• Turn a huge, busy scope into clear priorities and deliver against them.

• Balance finance’s urgency with engineering’s need for quality.

• Grow engineers and build a team that holds up under pressure.

• Care about the person at the end of every transaction.

Bonus points

• Experience with payments, ledgers or double-entry accounting, reconciliation, card issuing, or stablecoin and crypto rails.

• Experience with payment service provider or banking integrations, including webhooks, settlement files and returns.

• You have built LLM agents, tool servers (for example MCP), evaluation harnesses or retrieval systems in production.

• Site reliability or on-call experience in a regulated or financial domain.

Location and hours

• EMEA, with openness to India. Your core working hours must overlap with the Treasury team in EMEA.

• A shared on-call rotation is expected.

Total Rewards

Our workforce deserves fair and competitive pay that meets them where they are. With scalable benefits, rewards, and perks, our total rewards programs reflect our commitment to inclusivity and access for all.

• Our salary range reflects gross base salary. For commercial roles with commission eligibility, this figure represents On-Target Earnings (OTE), inclusive of base salary and target commission.

• Salary ranges are quoted in USD as a consistent global reference. Your offer will be localized to your country's currency using a market-aligned conversion.

• Final pay is based on objective, job-related criteria including experience, skills, and location.

• We don't ask about salary history. Offers are based on the role and what you bring to it.

Some things you'll enjoy

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location

• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country

• Optional flexible working office membership, with IWG

At Deel, we're an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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