Backend Lead

Welcome to Torrero — an all-in-one platform for cutting-edge white-label casino, sportsbook solutions, and B2B aggregation. Built on a foundation of trust, scalability, and compliance, we provide a wide range of gaming and payment solutions for international markets.

As the company grows, we are strengthening our payment and fintech direction and are looking for an experienced Python Tech Lead / Backend Lead who can take ownership of backend development, technical decisions, and team delivery within a complex payment environment.

About the project

We are looking for a Python Tech Lead / Backend Lead to join and lead the backend development of our payment-related products. The project involves payment processing, integrations with payment providers, merchant and wallet management, transaction flows, balances, risk controls, reporting, and internal back-office tools.

Our tech stack includes:

Python, Django, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis

The role combines hands-on backend development, architectural ownership, technical leadership, and close collaboration with product, QA, and business stakeholders.

What you will be doing: 

• Lead backend development for payment-related products
• Make architectural and technical decisions
• Design scalable backend solutions for complex payment flows
• Take ownership of backend delivery and technical quality
• Coordinate developers and help with task decomposition
• Review technical solutions and code
• Participate in provider/payment method integrations
• Work on transaction processing, balances, limits, risk controls, reporting, and back-office functionality
• Monitor production stability and performance
• Identify technical risks and propose improvements
• Work closely with Product, QA, and business stakeholders
• Ensure that implemented solutions are reliable, maintainable, and scalable

Your expertise: 

• 7+ years of commercial backend development experience
• Strong hands-on experience with Python 3.x and Django
• Proven experience as a Tech Lead / Backend Lead / Lead Developer
• Experience managing or coordinating backend development work
• Strong experience in designing and developing complex, high-load backend systems
• Deep understanding of transactional integrity, idempotency patterns, and race condition prevention 
• Strong understanding of:
  • system architecture
  • integrations
  • distributed systems
  • queues and asynchronous processing
  • databases and data consistency
  • performance optimization
• Experience with PostgreSQL
• Experience with RabbitMQ / Redis or similar tools
• Experience with monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar) 
• Expected hands-on involvement at the start: around 50–60%, including coding, architecture, code reviews, and technical decision-making. 
• Ability to review code, guide developers, and maintain engineering standards
• Ability to decompose complex business requirements into clear technical tasks
• Strong ownership, independence, and responsibility
• Fluent Russian
• Intermediate+ English

FinTech / Payments experience — mandatory

We are specifically looking for candidates with experience in fintech or payments, especially in companies related to:

• EMI licensed companies
• Payment Facilitators / PayFac
• PSPs
• Acquiring
• Payment institutions
• Card processing

The ideal candidate should understand not only backend development, but also the logic of payment products: transactions, providers, merchants, wallets, balances, settlements, commissions, limits, and operational risk.

We expect from you: 

• Strong technical judgment
• Ability to balance speed and quality
• Hands-on mindset — this is not a purely managerial role
• Ability to lead by example
• Clear communication with developers, product, and QA
• Systematic approach to solving complex problems
• Responsibility for the final result, not only for assigned tasks
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Strong attention to detail, especially in payment-related logic

Will be a plus: 

• Experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases
• Experience with microservices or modular architecture
• Experience with payment provider integrations
• Experience with reconciliation, settlements, commissions, rolling reserves, chargebacks, refunds
• Experience with risk management systems
• Experience in iGaming payments
• Experience building internal back-office systems
• Experience mentoring or growing developers
• Understanding of PCI DSS requirements and their impact on payment systems is expected. 

We offer: 

• Fully remote work
• Flexible working hours
• Competitive compensation
• 28 paid vacation days per year
• 3 paid sick days per year without medical certificate
• Seniority leave
• Birthday day off
• Real career opportunities and professional growth
• International team
• Opportunity to influence architecture and technical direction of a growing payment product

Hiring stages: 

• Introductory call
• Hiring manager interview
• Technical interview
• Technical assignment / architecture discussion
• Reference check
• Offer