Engineering Lead, Payments

Lovable is hiring an Engineering Lead, Payments in Stockholm, Sweden. Level rates it ; you can apply on Lovable.

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Level rates this role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
The posting mentions payment systems, distributed systems and software architecture among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a lead role.
Lovable has 78 other open roles on Level.
Posted within the past two weeks.

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Lead the engineering team in building and scaling global payments infrastructure.

payment-systemsdistributed-systemssoftware-architectureleadershipscaling

TL;DR: We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Lead to build and scale Lovable’s payments infrastructure. You’ve built payment systems at scale before. You’ll shape the architecture, develop critical payment capabilities, and guide the team through the technical challenges of global growth.

Why Lovable?

Lovable is the software creation platform that gives people the power to act on the problems closest to them. For decades, turning an idea into software required so much capital, technical fluency, and time that many ideas never came to life. Lovable is the counterargument: a platform for all people with ideas, ambition, and problems worth solving. From solopreneurs to small business owners to teams at companies like Adidas and Zendesk, people have built over 60 million projects on Lovable since its launch in November 2024. And we’re just getting started.

We’re building a generational company from Stockholm, with growing teams in London, Boston, New York, and San Francisco. Our team is small, talent-dense, and moving quickly, with a culture rooted in extreme ownership, high velocity, and low-ego collaboration. We look for people who care deeply, ship fast, and are eager to make a dent in the world.

Lovable is one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies and has been recognized on the Forbes AI 50 and CNBC Disruptor 50, reflecting our momentum as one of Europe’s fastest-growing AI companies and one of the most ambitious places to build in this next era of software.

What we’re looking for

A proven track record of personally building and scaling production payments infrastructure, from architecture through implementation and ongoing operations.
Deep experience with payment processing, recurring billing, provider integrations, and reconciliation.
Excellent judgment in distributed systems, including financial correctness, idempotency, consistency, and failure recovery.
Experience leading engineers through complex architectural decisions, migrations, and production incidents.
An engineering leader with the technical depth and judgment to simplify complex systems and raise the quality of the team’s decisions.

What you’ll do

Build critical systems. Design and implement payment flows, recurring billing, and provider integrations, taking projects from initial design through production.
Set the technical direction. Guide architectural decisions, create and review code, and work closely with the team on the most challenging problems.
Own reliability. Investigate production issues, improve observability, and strengthen how our systems handle failures, retries, and scale.
Lead engineering delivery. Turn complex problems into clear plans, coach engineers, and take responsibility for shipping and operating high-quality systems.
Connect engineering to business outcomes. Work with Payments, Product, Finance, and Operations to improve payment success, reduce losses, and support global growth.

Our tech stack

We're building with tools that both humans and AI love. Lovable software engineers are capable of working across the whole stack. Examples of tech in our stack include:

Frontend: React and Typescript.
Backend: Golang and Rust.
Cloud: Cloudflare, GCP, AWS.
Data: Clickhouse, Firestore, Spanner, BigQuery.
DevOps & Tooling: CI/CD pipelines, OTEL, Kubernetes, Terraform.

And always on the lookout for what's next!

About your application

Please submit your application in English. It’s our company language, so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join.

Tell us about payments infrastructure you’ve built: your technical ownership, the scale, the hardest trade-offs, and how it performed in production.

We treat all candidates equally. If you’re interested, please apply through our careers portal.

How we rate this

Engineering Lead, Payments at Lovable rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Engineering Lead, Payments is an open job at Lovable.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in Stockholm.
The job was posted on October 28, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Lovable. Apply on Lovable

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