Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead - OP02108

🟢 At Dev.Pro, we work on projects that impact millions of people around the world — but we know it's the people behind the tech who make it all happen. We truly value what makes each person unique and are building a workplace that's inclusive, friendly, and supportive.

We invite a Senior Software Engineer/Team Lead to join a strategic initiative focused on scaling a high-throughput payment orchestration platform. In this role, you'll lead a cross-functional delivery team and work closely with client stakeholders to keep priorities clear and the team aligned. You'll balance team leadership with hands-on coding, using your technical expertise and strong communication skills to deliver key features end-to-end while navigating ambiguity and bringing clarity to complex situations.

🟩 What's in it for you:

• Work on mission-critical systems supporting high-volume financial transaction processing
• Take ownership of end-to-end delivery in a highly visible, client-facing role
• Provide technical leadership to a cross-functional engineering team in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, driving best practices and continuous improvement
• Benefit from in-person collaboration with colleagues through occasional travel to our Zagreb office

✅ Is that you?

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience leading cross-functional teams of 6+ engineers, or strong tech leadership experience, with readiness to move into people leadership
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills, with direct client-facing experience and ability to work effectively across diverse, cross-cultural teams
• Ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, align teams, and bring clarity in ambiguous situations
• Demonstrated end-to-end delivery ownership, with a proactive, accountable mindset
• Ability to organize work, manage priorities, and remove delivery blockers
• Experience in Agile environments with exposure to modern engineering practices (automated testing, CI/CD, code reviews)
• Experience delivering high-performance, reliable backend systems in mission-critical, high-throughput environments
• Strong understanding of APIs, system integration, and abstraction layers
• Hands-on experience with Perl, C, or Java, or a strong willingness to quickly learn Perl
• Upper-Intermediate English level
• Willingness to travel to our Zagreb office (twice per quarter)

Desirable:

• Experience in payments, fintech, card processing, or other financial services domains
• Proficiency with Java-based testing frameworks
• Experience with DevOps practices and building observability, logging, and resilience into products

🧩Key Responsibilities And Your Contribution

In this role, you'll own end-to-end delivery of backend systems, lead a highly specialized cross-functional engineering team, and collaborate with client stakeholders to build and support high-performance payment solutions.

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend components in Perl, integrated with C-based core systems
• Build mapping, customization, and business logic layers to interface with client, gateway, and host systems
• Own end-to-end feature delivery, including automated testing (Java-based frameworks), code quality, and performance stability
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and release processes as part of delivery ownership
• Build and integrate observability and monitoring features to ensure low-latency and self-recovering system operations
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver features from requirements to production and monitoring
• Work with client stakeholders to clarify requirements, align expectations, and help resolve technical issues

🎾 What's working at Dev.Pro like?

✔️ 30 paid days off per year — take them whenever you want for vacation, holidays, or personal time

✔️ 5 paid sick days, up to 60 days of medical leave, and 6 paid days off per year for major family events like weddings, funerals, or the birth of a child

✔️ Partially covered health insurance after the probation, plus a wellness bonus for gym memberships, sports nutrition, and similar needs after 6 months

✔️ Grow your skills with English lessons, online training, conferences, and the option to explore new career paths

Our next steps:

✅ Submit a CV in English — ✅ Intro call with a Recruiter — ✅ Internal interview — ✅ Client interview — ✅ Offer

Interested? Find out more:

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