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Senior Payments Software Lead Engineer

Truist
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 2 Jul 2025

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Regular or Temporary:

Regular

Language Fluency:  English (Required)

Work Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Please review the following job description:

The Senior Payments Software Engineer is a senior-level engineering team lead responsible for delivering highly complex, scalable software solutions with a focus on payment systems and large-scale transaction processing. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong technical leadership, guiding engineering teams through architecture, design, and implementation phases. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with a proven track record in AWS cloud-native development, distributed systems, and modern software engineering practices. This role is critical in shaping the technical direction of the team while remaining deeply embedded in the codebase and delivery lifecycle.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job.  Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below.  Specific activities may change from time to time. 

  • Lead the design, development, and deployment of highly scalable and resilient software systems, particularly in the payments and financial transaction domain.

  • Architect cloud-native solutions using AWS services, ensuring performance, security, and operational excellence.

  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and accountability.

  • Collaborate with product owners, architects, and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.

  • Drive Agile best practices, including story refinement, test-driven development, CI/CD automation, and DevSecOps integration.

  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across the stack, from infrastructure to application logic.

  • Champion engineering excellence through code reviews, design reviews, and hands-on development.

  • Contribute to the evolution of system architecture and engineering standards across the organization.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Bachelor’s degree and eight to twelve years of experience as a developer or equivalent education and related training or experience

2. Deep specialized and/or broad functional knowledge

3. Sound understanding of business and organizational strategies and processes 4. Ability to interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices

5. Ability to lead complex projects

6. Sophisticated analytical skills and the ability to solve complex technical and business problems

7. Ability to influence others at senior levels to adopt a new perspective

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a technical leadership or team lead role.

  • Deep expertise in payment systems, transaction processing, and financial services platforms.

  • Strong architectural background with experience designing distributed systems and event-driven architectures.

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