Senior Fintech Legal Counsel (Payments)

Key Responsibilities

• Regulatory analysis for implementation of hard / light cashless.
• Review of contracts with PSPs for launch of hard / light cashless.
• Work with the tax team to ensure tax efficiency of cashless schemes.
• Work with LBP teams to ensure no labour law risks with cashless launches.
• Regulatory analysis and legal support of wallet launches.
• Audit of existing contracts with PSPs.
• Elaborate best practices for contracts with PSPs.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• 4–7 years PQE, with at least 3 years focused on payments / fintech / financial services regulation, in a law firm and/or in-house at a global business.
• Working knowledge of payments and e-money regulation across multiple regions.
• Hands-on experience drafting and negotiating core payments contracts, including with PSPs, acquirers, and payout/disbursement partners.
• Experience with marketplace payment flows.
• Proven ability to advise business, product, finance, and tax stakeholders on new product launches and market entries, and to manage outside counsel across jurisdictions.
• Strong commercial judgment and clear, risk-weighted advice; pragmatic, high-ownership, and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Full professional fluency in Russian and English.
• Law degree and admission to practice in at least one jurisdiction.

Why join us

• Help us challenge injustice by creating fair choices for millions of people across 1100+ cities in 48 countries.
• Develop your professional skills with access to mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs.
• Collaborate with teams around the world and gain international experience through our Global Talent Exchange Program.
• Engage in company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, employee-led social impact and volunteering projects.
• Work alongside people who take initiative, speak openly, and challenge themselves to grow.
• Improve your language skills through co-financed courses and internal speaking clubs.