Developer Lead

Location: LONDON, , UNITED KINGDOM, CAMBRIDGE, , UNITED KINGDOM, MANCHESTER, , UNITED KINGDOM

Remote Type: Hybrid

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Ready to take your career global?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Development Lead to join our ever evolving Platform team and help shape the future of global commerce

What you’ll own

Technical Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of Engineers, fostering a culture of craftsmanship, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Set the technical standard by modelling exemplary development practices, architectural thinking, and solution design.

• Act as the “golden standard” for code quality, platform architecture, and development discipline.

• Provide technical oversight and ensure complex solutions are well designed, rational, and maintainable.

Agile Delivery Leadership

• Take the lead in Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives, ensuring clarity, prioritisation, and an environment of open, constructive communication.

• Empower the team to raise concerns, challenge assumptions, and contribute to improvements in process and delivery.

• Drive predictable, high‑quality delivery across all workstreams.

Solution Design & Development

• Design, develop, and implement applications, integrations, and configurations (workflows, business rules, UI scripts, client scripts, etc.).

• Ensure all solutions are scalable, robust, secure, and aligned with both and organisational best practices.

• Provide architectural guidance and approve designs for complex or strategic initiatives.

Platform Governance & Health

• Own and enforce governance: coding standards, peer reviews, release processes, and change control.

• Maintain platform health as a top priority, ensuring performance, stability, and maintainability are never compromised.

• Stay current with new releases and drive adoption of relevant enhancements.

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What you'll bring

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, and process stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into high‑quality technical solutions.

• Represent the development team confidently and ensure engineering considerations are heard and respected.

• Incident Ownership & Operational Excellence

• Own the Incident Management process within the development team.

• Ensure incidents assigned to engineers are kept up to date, progressed appropriately, and resolved within agreed SLAs.

• Conduct root‑cause analysis and feed learnings into continuous improvement initiatives.

About the team

Our Tech and Security teams keep us moving each day, no matter where we are in the world. From the hardware to the networks and everything between, they humbly make it all happen.

The Development Lead is responsible for providing technical leadership, architectural guidance, and hands-on expertise in the design, development, and delivery of solutions. This role leads a team of Engineers, ensuring the platform is robust, scalable, and aligned with organisational standards and strategic objectives.

Acting as the pinnacle of development excellence, the Lead establishes coding standards, champions best practice and confidently represents the voice of engineering within the wider business. They ensure that platform health, technical integrity, and operational resilience remain the highest priority.

What makes a Globalpayer?

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer. Apply now to take your career global.

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