Tech Lead

**About us**:
We’re Littlepay - a growing fintech headquartered in Melbourne with operations in the UK, EU, LATAM, USA, and Australia. Our payments platform enables our customers to pay for public transport using any payment card, mobile wallet, or wearable device. Processing over USD 1 billion a year in 13 countries and continuing to expand globally, we’re proud to move more people through better payment experiences.

Our Littlepay values:

- Trust and be trustworthy
- Embrace challenge
- Solve problems, together
- Deliver with speed and agility
- Be candid and kind

**About the opportunity**:
We’re looking for a Tech Lead to join our Luxembourg based Product Engineering team responsible for our retail payment processing, delivering on our exciting product roadmap and scaling our platform.

Reporting to the Group Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with a talented team to deliver new features that increase transaction volume through new payment channels. You will ensure the quality and performance of our retail payment processing product while managing a growing team of up to 6 direct reports.

As a Tech Lead, you'll:

- Participate and lead story and task kick-offs; helping to ensure sound approaches to problems
- Manage a prioritised technical roadmap that addresses technical debt and ensures it is well communicated and understood by the team
- Be responsible for leading teams to technical solutions to problems, asking the right questions to help confirm problem understanding, while still being an active individual contributor
- Become a core owner of production services, responsible for their stability, performance, and ongoing optimisation.
- Actively share your knowledge about industry trends and new technologies, bringing demonstrable improvements to the team
- Lead root cause analysis and triaging of production incidents, working with others to resolve cross-team impacts
- Infuse security considerations into all technical decisions and toolings
- Own services primarily using Java21/Quarkus running on AWS (ECS/Lambda/DynamoDB/APIGateway/SAM/SQS)

**Requirements**:
You'll have:

- At least 5 years' experience in a technical leadership role, managing direct reports
- An ability to understand the business implications of technical decisions and contribute to strategic discussions
- The ability to co-ordinate, and communicate clearly and effectively on a wide range of issues with colleagues and stakeholders, both technical and non-technical
- Ideally some experience in the payment processing or similar domains
- A willingness to learn, fail, and try again
- Genuine curiosity, and a proactive and self-motivated approach to learning

**Benefits**

We love to look after our people. At Littlepay, you'll be part of an inclusive and diverse team that celebrates the differences and unique gifts we each bring to work.

You’ll have access to:

- A high trust working environment, with access to cloud collaboration tools like Notion, Slack, Miro, Google Workspace, and Jira to help us work together effectively
- Paid professional development (including conferences, courses, learning subscriptions, etc.)
- Harrison Assessments - our talent management provider that facilitates continuous professional development
- A variety of flexible leave options
- A company-wide paid day off
- Our generous employee referral program
- Mid-year, quarterly, and end-of-year corporate and team events and workshops
- Short-term remote working arrangements
- International travel opportunities (dependent on role)

**In-office expectations**

At Littlepay, we believe great work happens when we_ solve problems, together. _We see in-person collaboration as an important way to build connections, share ideas, and support each other meaningfully.

For those assigned to an office location, we generally expect a minimum two-day presence in the office each week. This may vary depending on your role, team, and location. For example, our team in Luxembourg works 100% from the office, whereas our AU and UK teams currently work a minimum of 2 days onsite in our Melbourne/London offices. Some positions might require more frequent office attendance to support cross-functional collaboration, customer engagement, or specific team workflows. Your hiring manager will provide details relevant to your role.

We aim to strike a healthy balance between in-person connection and flexibility, while staying connected to _deliver with speed and agility_ as we continue to scale, ensuring our ways of working support both our people and our shared ambition to move more people through better payment experiences.

**Recruitment Process**:
If you’ve been shortlisted for the role, you’ll first have a chat with our Talent team, who will set up an interview if the stars align. A short workplace preferences questionnaire will also be sent to help us learn more about the way you prefer to work. Following a successful first interview, you’ll meet with a second set of Litt