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tem helps businesses access renewable energy at more transparent and competitive prices. Through its RED™ product, the company connects businesses directly with renewable energy generators and brings procurement into one streamlined portal for comparing quotes, managing contracts, and handling billing. By reducing reliance on traditional energy suppliers, tem aims to make renewable energy easier to procure while helping businesses control costs and support a fairer, more sustainable energy market.

Senior Staff Payments Engineer – Remote in the United Kingdom

Lead the Payments squad at tem, an AI-native energy transaction infrastructure company. Shape payment architecture, improve processing efficiency, and scale the Billing and Payments Service.

Description

  • Act as the founding technical lead for the new Payments squad within Saldo, tem’s Billing and Payments Service
  • Take ownership of the squad’s delivery results and engineering practices
  • Produce technical specifications and design documentation
  • Review architecture decision records and pull requests
  • Address complex technical challenges through code and improved workflows
  • Guide the architectural direction of the payments service
  • Establish the squad’s operating model while balancing delivery speed, quality, and resilience
  • Increase payment accuracy and processing efficiency to lower processing costs
  • Coordinate sequencing and dependencies across teams
  • Identify throughput constraints and make the squad’s progress visible to stakeholders
  • Mentor junior engineers and partner with the senior engineer on challenging technical work
  • Escalate promotion and hiring needs to the Service Manager and participate in people decisions

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience leading a technical team and owning its delivery outcomes and standards
  • Demonstrated ability to write design documentation, review pull requests and architecture decisions, solve problems hands-on, and establish technical direction
  • Ability to combine hands-on contribution to major technical challenges with coaching for junior engineers
  • Experience creating a team’s working practices from the ground up while managing speed, quality, and resilience
  • Experience managing sequencing and dependencies between teams
  • Experience identifying and diagnosing throughput issues
  • Ability to establish technical direction in ambiguous situations
  • Experience taking technical blockers through to resolution
  • Payments systems experience is desirable
  • Experience reducing processing costs or improving efficiency in a high-volume service is desirable
  • Experience taking a service beyond its initial implementation is desirable
  • Fluent spoken and written English

Benefits

  • Stock options provide employees with ownership in the company’s mission
  • 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays
  • The option to exchange public holidays for preferred holidays
  • A day off for your birthday
  • Remote-first work with flexible working arrangements
  • Defined core working hours
  • No internal meetings on Friday afternoons
  • Up to GBP 1,200 or EUR 1,200 annually for remote-work equipment and setup
  • Up to GBP 150 or EUR 150 monthly for wellbeing

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