Technical Lead
REBELL AG ·
If you enjoy turning complexity into clarity, and making sure nothing falls through the cracks between business and engineering, this role is for you. What if you could help build Europes first Super App from the inside?
Rebell is building something Europe has never had before: a Super App. A single gateway where people can shop, pay, book, connect, and manage their daily lives across multiple countries, without switching between dozens of apps .
In Asia, super apps like Alipay and WeChat have transformed the way hundreds of millions of people live and interact. Rebell is already funded (+35M EUR) and staffed with senior leaders from Alipay, Twint, Scalapay, Qonto, and Glovo.
The launch is planned for late 2026, and the project is fully financed, thus no dependency on short-term fundraising. We are now hiring a Tech Lead to lead the definition and evolution of our merchant-side platform, dedicated to in-store and online digital payments.
This is not a coordination role. You will own technical delivery end-to-end, from specification to production, leading a distributed engineering team based in China. The role Rebells merchant platform runs across two engineering hubs, one of them a 15-person team based in Chengdu.
Were hiring a Tech Lead to take full ownership of the China-based engineering team, planning, execution, release quality, and become the person who actually understands how both platforms talk to each other: payment lifecycle, merchant integration, bank gateway.
Youll turn a distributed, multi-vendor setup into one that ships fast and doesnt surprise anyone. If you like walking into a team thats technically solid but can be improved structurally, and leaving it running like clockwork, this is the job.
What youll do Own end-to-end delivery of the Chengdu-based platform team : planning, execution and release quality, reporting to the IT skills you can learn from the team. We value contribution , not seniority. Were an international team (10+ nationalities).
English is the working language. We value people who think independently and communicate clearly, even if theyre not loud. About you 5+ years of experience as a developer, front-end, back-end, or full-stack, with ownership of projects matching your scope and team size.
Not a pure PM profile, and not only theoretical knowledge: you have shipped a live integration. 2+ years of experience as a tech team leader, with real ownership of projects and their impact. Comfortable discussing cloud environments (multi-zone, Fargate, DynamoDB) and able to review architecture decisions without being the architect yourself.
Experience with payment flows (merchant integration, API, onboarding), REST APIs, webhooks and authentication; exposure to compliance or AML is a plus. Experience in regulated industries and in fast-growing, high-pace scale-ups.
Fluent in Italian, English and Mandarin . Willing to travel to China at least twice a year.