About us

We’re Littlepay - a growing fintech headquartered in Melbourne, and the world's only payment processor specialising in the transit and mobility sector. We've developed a payments platform that enables customers to pay for public transport using any payment card, mobile wallet, or wearable device. Littlepay is now processing transactions in 12 countries and continuing to expand globally.

Our Littlepay values:

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

About the opportunity

Engineering teams at Littlepay have end-to-end ownership of the work they deliver. We’re now looking for a Tech Lead to help build our highly skilled team. As a Tech Lead in the Partner team, you’ll take ownership of the systems that connect our partners to our payment infrastructure through their devices and back-office services, including collecting and storing cardholders’ information. You'll also provide technical leadership to a team of engineers and develop and deliver a technical roadmap in conjunction with internal and external stakeholders.

You'll be working with colleagues who:

• Are passionate about collaborative product development
• Care about quality and writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code
• Are strong advocates of best practices and continuous improvement
• Take end-to-end ownership for delivering public APIs that delight our customers
• Enjoy solving complex and interesting problems in an agile team setting

Day to day, you’ll:

• Design, implement and maintain dependable platforms, production-quality APIs, workflows, and tools
• Provide technical leadership for a team of 5 engineers
• Mentor junior engineers
• Collaborate closely with Service Operations, Platform and Engineering Management to plan your initiatives
• Build performant, sustainable, and maintainable technologies and code

About our platform tech:

• Java/Spring/NodeJS microservices
• Go as the future for new microservices
• Open source and AWS technologies (ECS/RDS/DynamoDB/S3/SQS/APIGateway/Lambda/SAM/CF)

About you

Ideally, you’ll have:

• 3+ years of technical leadership experience
• 7+ years of relevant professional experience in Java software development
• Solid Java/Spring skills with recent commercial experience in Go across the stack
• An interest or experience in cryptographic algorithms and transaction security
• Experience with developing software in a cloud-hosted environment (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• The willingness to learn, fail, and try again - people who are naturally curious, proactive, and self-motivated do very well at Littlepay
• A positive attitude and a collaborative nature, with the willingness to participate in all areas of engineering
• The ability to comprehend, coordinate, and communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues
• Good knowledge of CI/CD practices

Nice to haves

• Previous experience shipping and supporting products at a global scale
• Experience with data governance
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering
• Experience with giving technical presentations to internal and external audiences

Why us?

We love to look after our people, and want you to feel comfortable bringing your authentic self to work. At Littlepay, you’ll:

• Be part of an inclusive and diverse team who celebrates the differences and unique gifts we each bring to work
• Have access to significant learning and development programs
• Be able to take advantage of international travel opportunities
• Have access to a Littlepay company wide public holiday and a flexible public holiday program
• Be able to take up the numerous other benefits that being at Littlepay affords you, including being part of a growing community of innovators at Stone and Chalk

Our recruitment process

If you’ve been shortlisted for the role, you’ll first have a chat with our Head of Talent, 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 Littlepay folks, and be invited to participate in the final stage before being presented with an offer.

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process or if you require any accommodations for any stage in the interview process, please let us know. Additionally, if you don’t meet all of the criteria (we know that some underrepresented groups tend to avoid applying if they don’t), please still apply. We really enjoy meeting people who might bring a fresh perspective on a problem we need to solve!

Ultimately, being part of our small but mighty team means you'll have the opportunity to learn about micropayments, and have a hand in the provision of services that impact millions of people. You’ll help us deliver on our revolutionary product roadmap and help scale our platform as we continue to expand across the globe.

If this opportunity interests you, hit apply! We look forward to learning about you.