Engineering Team Lead, Deel
Fintech
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Global payroll for employees and contractors
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Global payroll for employees and contractors
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make a change for people everywhere by empowering companies to eliminate hiring borders—so anyone, anywhere in the world, can access new opportunities.
Role
Who you are
- Location: Based in EMEA, with high availability for global collaboration
- Background: Proven experience as a Tech Lead or Team Lead in payments, banking, accounting, or treasury
- FinTech Expertise: Hands-on wallets, flows of funds, compliance, and regulated money movement. Prior experience at companies like Wise, PayPal, or similar is a strong plus
- JavaScript/Node.js
- PostgreSQL with Sequelize ORM
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and API-driven banking/PSP integrations
- Leadership: Ability to run projects at scale, mentor engineers, and drive cross-functional alignment
- Mindset: Ownership, detail-oriented, and mindful of the responsibility of managing other people’s money
What the job involves
- As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies – breaking down borders that have traditionally limited both hiring and career opportunities
- We're not just building software; we're creating the infrastructure for the future of work, enabling a more diverse and inclusive global economy
- In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries—ensuring people get paid and protected, no matter where they are
- Our momentum is reflected in our achievements and customer satisfaction: CNBC Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Fast 500, and repeated recognition on Y Combinator’s top companies list – all while maintaining a 4.83 average rating from 15,000 reviews across G2, Trustpilot, Captera, Apple and Google
- Your experience at Deel will be a career accelerator
- At the forefront of the global work revolution, you'll tackle complex challenges that impact millions of people's working lives
- With our momentum—backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 B in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years—you'll drive meaningful impact while building expertise that makes you a sought-after leader in the transformation of global work
- At the core of Deel’s FinTech platform, responsible for building and operating client and contractor wallets across our regulated entities globally
- This is a mission-critical domain where accuracy, compliance, and reliability are non-negotiable
- Lead the fintech engineering team to design, build, and scale wallet infrastructure for global deel's users
- Work with different teams to integrate wallets with regional banks through PSPs (via APIs), orchestrating pay-ins and ensuring seamless treasury operations
- Depending on the project, you may collaborate with the Core Accounting team to connect wallets with the General Ledger (GL), ensuring balances are accurate and financial records meet audit standards
- Work closely with Compliance, Treasury, and PSP Integration teams to ensure adherence to local regulations (MTL, PI, safeguarding requirements)
- Provide technical leadership in a global, fast-paced environment where uptime and precision are critical
- Responsible for leading a high-performing engineering team, including running daily stand-ups, planning sessions, and backlog grooming
Our take
Remote work is growing exponentially, but global onboarding and payments haven't caught up. Deel is a payroll platform for remote teams that connects localized compliance and payments in one system of record, and automates everything.
Deel's goal is to offer every company that hires remote talents a one-stop-shop that makes onboarding, global compliance, and payments easy. The company's growth curve is one for the books, as it has been able to grow its customer base and team at an impressive rate. Its valuation follows suit, and now boasts being one of few businesses to hit $10+ billion just a year after hitting unicorn status.
With remote working here to stay, Deel has proven it got in at the right time, being well placed to capitalize on the trend of globally distributed teams. With such impressive backing, the company should be able to keep its success up as it moves into the future, bolstered by the release of new products and integrations that amplify the impact of its offering.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
277% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2025
$300m
SERIES E
May 2022
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $979.8m
Company HQ
Mid-Market, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alex Bouaziz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Researcher in Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. Co-Founder and former CEO of Lifeslice.
Shuo Wang
(Co-Founder & CRO)Previously a Researcher at MIT Newman Lab. Co-Founder and former CTO of Aeris Cleantec.
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