Team Lead, Engineering, Fintech

Deel Deel · Enterprise · Romania · R&D

Deel is seeking a Team Lead, Engineering for their Fintech platform, focusing on building and operating client and contractor wallets. This role involves leading a team to design, build, and scale wallet infrastructure, integrating with regional banks and PSPs, and ensuring compliance with regulations. The position requires technical leadership in a fast-paced, high-uptime environment, with responsibilities split between people management and hands-on tasks.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the fintech engineering team to design, build, and scale wallet infrastructure for global deel's users.
  2. Work with different teams to integrate wallets with regional banks through PSPs (via APIs), orchestrating pay-ins and ensuring seamless treasury operations.
  3. Work closely with Compliance, Treasury, and PSP Integration teams to ensure adherence to local regulations (MTL, PI, safeguarding requirements).
  4. Provide technical leadership in a global, fast-paced environment where uptime and precision are critical.
  5. Responsible for leading a high-performing engineering team, including running daily stand-ups, planning sessions, and backlog grooming.

Skills

Required

  • JavaScript/Node.js
  • PostgreSQL with Sequelize ORM
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems and API-driven banking/PSP integrations
  • Leadership
  • Ownership
  • detail-oriented

Nice to have

  • Prior experience at companies like Wise, PayPal, or similar

What the JD emphasized

  • regulated money movement
  • accuracy
  • compliance
  • reliability
  • adherence to local regulations
  • uptime
  • precision
  • managing other people’s money
  • client funds are safe
  • compliant