Technical Lead

About StarRez StarRez is the global leader in student housing software, providing innovative solutions for on and off-campus housing management, resident wellness and experience, and revenue generation. Trusted by 1,400+ clients across 25+ countries, StarRez supports more than 4 million beds annually with its user-friendly, all-in-one platform, delivering seamless experiences for students and administrators. With offices in the United States, Australia, the UK, and India, StarRez blends the robust capabilities of a global organization with the personalized care and service of a trusted partner. StarRez operates globally across the USA, UK, Canada, and Australia. The India Center is a pivotal extension of our growth strategy, focusing on building world-class centers of excellence teams while fostering a seamless blend of StarRez’s core values with India’s dynamic talent ecosystem.   The Role We are looking for a Tech Lead for our Payments Engineering team. Payments is core to how our customers operate, and you will own the architecture and technical direction of the platform that moves real money for institutions around the world. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will set the technical bar, make the calls on architecture and security, and lead a significant program of work: consolidating a multi generation payments estate onto our modern payment orchestration platform, while keeping every existing integration reliable in production. You will work across a genuinely hybrid technology landscape: a modern cloud-native microservice platform, a large established .NET monolith, and modern React front-ends. If you enjoy raising the standard of a real-world payments system rather than building a greenfield toy, this is that role What You Will Own Own the technical vision and architecture for the Payments platform end to end, from PSP integrations through orchestration, tokenization, and settlement flows. Lead the consolidation of legacy payment integrations onto our modern Cloud Payment Service (CPS), including the migration of direct debit tokens and recurring payment mandates, which is high-risk, high-value work. Drive the design and delivery of new payment service provider (PSP) integrations across a portfolio of 20+ gateways, defining the patterns the rest of the team follows. Set and uphold security and compliance standards for a system that handles cardholder and bank data: encryption, secrets management, server-to-server auth, and PCI-aware design. Design safe, feature-flagged rollouts and migration paths so changes ship incrementally with clear rollback. Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raise the code-review and testing bar, and grow the technical capability of the team. Partner with Product, Engineering Management, and customer-facing teams to sequence delivery and manage the operational risk of live payment changes. Stay hands-on: write and review code, pair on the hard problems, and lead by…