DragonPay is building a modern payments platform for credit unions and financial institutions. We are looking for a hands-on Lead Software Engineer with strong payments domain knowledge to help build the platform and grow the engineering team around it.

The Role

This is an engineering-first leadership role. You will actively build production software while providing technical direction, reviewing work, establishing engineering practices, and helping develop the team.

You will work closely with Product, financial institutions, and technology partners to translate real-world payment requirements into reliable software.

What You Will Own
- Lead hands-on development across backend, APIs, integrations, data, and supporting frontend systems.
- Provide technical leadership, code and design review, and engineering standards across the team.
- Establish and lead the team’s AI-assisted development practices, using modern AI tools extensively across implementation, testing, review, debugging, and engineering workflows.
- Help hire, mentor, and develop engineers as the team grows.




- Design and build reliable transactional systems using a stack utilizing Node.js, TypeScript, SQL, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and modern integration patterns.
- Implementing practical standards for testing, security, observability and CI/CD with necessary rigor around idempotency, concurrency, and failure-mode testing given the demands of payment processing.

Desired Experience

Payments Domain

Strong hands-on experience building payment or financial-transaction systems is required. Experience should include several of the following:
- ACH, instant payments, cards, P2P, or cross-border payments
- Financial institution or core-banking integrations
- Payment routing, orchestration, and external providers
- Returns, reversals, retries, reconciliation, and exception handling
- Payment risk, limits, and operational controls

Experience with credit unions, banking platforms, payment processors, regul

📌 Lead Software Engineer, Payments (Argentina)
🏢 Black Dragon Capital
📍 Argentina