Job Description

Ciklum is looking for a Lead .NET Engineer to join our team full-time in Ukraine.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Lead .NET Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. On behalf of our client, we are looking for a .NET Team leader to join us on a full-time basis. Ciklum is building a team to work on various projects whose primary goal is to improve and automate the customer’s business processes and reduce the time and effort required for various operations.

The team will be responsible for the whole development cycle – based on requirements, you will take part in design and development, and the team will also own testing until the feature or component is ready for production.

You will learn the Client's development environment as well as the relevant business logic per feature.

We’re looking for a technology-enthusiastic Team Leader with a drive for excellence and an out-of-the-box mindset to satisfy business needs in a complex payment solution environment.

If you’re the kind of person who loves to get stuff done, collaborate with colleagues all over the world, and is interested in joining a fast-growing global company that is trusted by the world’s top digital brands and truly cares for its customers, join us

Our Client is a fast-growing, profitable, well-funded, and dynamic global payments company. Its offices are located in Israel, New York, and more. It is serving thousands of corporates and millions of end-users (payment receivers), in 190+ countries. With client’s fast, flexible, secure and low-cost solutions, businesses and professionals in both developed and emerging markets can now pay and get paid globally as easily as they do locally.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with Product, DevOps, Support, and other R&D teams
• Lead a team of software engineers who are working closely with product management to achieve business goals
• Putting special focus on team growth challenges
• Provide technical authority to your team by demonstrating a hands-on leadership style
• Responsible for the overall design, development, architecture, code quality, and production environment deployment of your team

Requirements:

• B.Sc in Computer Science or equivalent
• 5 + years’ experience as a server-side developer - all the way from DB to UI (Using C#, .NET, REST WEB API and Queues)
• 3+ years’ experience with advanced SQL (MSSQLOracleMySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB)
• Experience with distributed systems/ microservices (must)
• Broad knowledge of OOP and design patterns (must)
• Good understanding of network interactions (protocols, conventions (e.g., REST, RPC), authentication and authorization flows)
• Experience in engineering best practices (code reviews, testing coverage, agile methodologies) (must)
• Experience with RabbitMQ / Redis / Entity Framework/Kafka (or equivalent experience)
• Excellent knowledge of Deployment patterns
• Team player attitude and mentality, independent
• Experienced and passionate about managing and growing people
• 1+ years of managerial/lead experience
• Ambitious and eager to learn new things
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum/SAFE
• AI experience (at least coding, building an agent)
• AWS, Kubernetes (switch from Azure)
• 20% hands-on

Desirable:

• Experience working with financial institutions
• Working with vendors

What’s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Flexibility: Enjoy radical flexibility – work remotely or from an office, your choice
• Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

As one of Ukraine’s largest IT companies and a top employer recognized by Forbes, we’ve spent over 20 years delivering meaningful tech solutions. We proudly support diverse talent and military veterans, recognizing their unique skills and perspectives they bring to shaping the future.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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