Technical Lead - Payment Infrastructure

Traild: Who are we? Traild is a high-growth SaaS company redefining how finance teams operate, combining AI, automation, and payments infrastructure to power the future of B2B finance. Every year, businesses lose billions to fraud, errors, and mistakes. Traild exists to solve this at scale, helping finance teams move faster, stay in control, and operate with confidence. With rapid customer growth, global expansion across APAC, North America and EMEA, and continued investment in product innovation, we are at a defining stage of our journey. This is an opportunity to help shape the next category leader in finance automation, control and security, building technology that transforms how businesses manage, move, and protect money. At the core of this is a powerful AI-driven platform, enabling finance teams to deploy intelligent agents that do the work, surface risk in real time, and continuously improve how financial operations run. Traild is building the infrastructure behind modern finance, protecting and powering meaningful volumes of the world’s B2B transactions. If you’re excited by high growth, real ownership, and building something that matters, Traild is the place to do the most impactful work of your career. Hear how Traild customers speak about us here. Traild: Who are we? Traild is a high-growth SaaS company redefining how finance teams operate, combining AI, automation, and payments infrastructure to power the future of B2B finance. Every year, businesses lose billions to fraud, errors, and mistakes. Traild exists to solve this at scale, helping finance teams move faster, stay in control, and operate with confidence. With rapid customer growth, global expansion across APAC, North America and EMEA, and continued investment in product innovation, we are at a defining stage of our journey. This is an opportunity to help shape the next category leader in finance automation, control and security, building technology that transforms how businesses manage, move, and protect money. At the core of this is a powerful AI-driven platform, enabling finance teams to deploy intelligent agents that do the work, surface risk in real time, and continuously improve how financial operations run. Traild is building the infrastructure behind modern finance, protecting and powering meaningful volumes of the world’s B2B transactions. If you’re excited by high growth, real ownership, and building something that matters, Traild is the place to do the most impactful work of your career. Hear how Traild customers speak about us here. About the role We’re launching a new Financial Infrastructure team at Traild to build the next generation of our payments and platform capabilities from the ground up. We’re looking for a Tech Lead with experience building large-scale payment infrastructure in fintech, payments, or other high-volume transaction environments. In this role, you will design and build the foundational systems that power Traild’s platform, working on high-impact, mission-critical services. You’ll play a key role in setting the technical direction for the team, mentoring engineers, and driving technical and business decisions. This team will own a critical business channel of the company , making this an opportunity to shape core infrastructure that directly impacts Traild’s growth and product capabilities. What you’ll do: Lead end-to-end development – Own features from early concept through production. Drive the design and delivery of real systems that power the platform, ensuring high quality and reliability in production. Drive technical direction – Look beyond individual tasks, understand the broader system and business context, and help shape both product and technical decisions. This is not a ticket-driven role. Mentor and elevate the team – Support and guide engineers through technical challenges, review designs and code, and help set a high technical bar for the team. Leverage AI-accelerated development practices – Use modern AI development tools to improve engineering velocity, code quality, and testing efficiency while building secure and scalable infrastructure. Backend-focused with a platform mindset – Your primary focus will be backend and platform services, while collaborating across APIs, data, and infrastructure when needed. Design and build for scale – Architect and implement backend services that are reliable, maintainable, and designed to scale with Traild’s platform and transaction volumes. What you will bring 8+ years of professional software engineering experience , with a strong backend focus. Proven experience building or operating large-scale payment infrastructure in fintech, payments, or other high-volume transaction environments. Experience building and operating real-time, mission-critical systems where low latency, correctness, and high availability are essential. Experience mentoring engineers and leading complex technical decisions , with a strong passion for technical leadership and elevating the team around you. Proven track record of taking products and systems from 0 to 1 , balancing speed, quality, and innovative problem-solving. Strong builder mindset , with experience taking complex systems from idea to production and successfully scaling them in production environments. Comfortable operating across the stack when needed , from APIs and business logic to infrastructure and deployment. Production experience with Python and Go , building scalable backend services and high-performance systems. Deep experience working with GCP , designing and operating production-grade systems in cloud environments. A modern engineering mindset , leveraging automation and AI-powered development tools to increase engineering impact and velocity. Strong communication and collaboration skills , with the ability to work effectively in small, senior teams and across global teams, ensuring clear alignment and communication The Perks of Working at Traild Flexibility: we offer a range of remote, hybrid and flexible working options. Global team: we are growing across APAC, NA and EMEA and have team all across the world. We are growing at an exponential rate, this is an opportunity to get involved with a true rocketship with all the excitement and opportunities that comes with it Our team genuinely loves working at Traild: our eNPS score is 78, where anything above 50 is considered world-class. 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