Backend Lead
from 🌏 Worldwide
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 experiencedPython 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 aPython 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 withPython 3.x and Django
- Proven experience as aTech Lead / Backend Lead / Lead Developer
- Experience managing or coordinating backend development work
- Strong experience in designing and developingcomplex, 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 withPostgreSQL
- Experience withRabbitMQ / 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












