Senior Manager, Engineering
Lead a team of 8-10 backend engineers building enterprise-grade payments value-added services (Network Tokens, Account Updater, 3DS). Drive AI-augmented engineering practices, architecture, and operational excellence in a regulated environment.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Drive AI-Native Delivery: Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of services using AI-augmented development methodologies, shifting how services are designed, built, tested, deployed, monitored, and operated.
- Strategic Partnership: Partner with Product Management to define the feature roadmap, prioritizing security, performance, and scalability alongside new value-added services.
- Lead from the Front: Hire, coach, and mentor a high-performing team of 8–10 engineers; act as a culture-builder who raises the bar for engineering excellence.
- Architectural Oversight: Collaborate with the CTO and Tech Leads to drive design choices, ensuring services follow established patterns while remaining innovative.
- Operational Excellence: Manage unplanned workstreams (incidents, vulnerabilities, defects) with focus on building resilient, self-healing systems.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Payments Acceptance Foundations, Sustaining, Infrastructure, Shared Services, and Security teams to resolve dependencies.
- Cultivate Code Quality: Foster a rigorous engineering culture centered on comprehensive testing, automation, and robust code reviews tailored for AI-augmented workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years as an Engineering Manager, Technical/Team Lead, or Architect in an enterprise or high-growth SaaS environment.
- Strong command of Agile, DevOps, and SRE practices adapted for AI-integrated development (e.g., managing agent-generated code pipelines and automated testing suites).
- Deep experience managing a mesh of microservices written in Java.
- Strong command of API fundamentals, event-driven architectures, messaging platforms (SQS/Kafka), SQL/NoSQL databases, and enterprise data platforms.
- Experience with container-orchestration delivery paradigms (preferably Kubernetes) and modern SaaS toolchain in a public cloud environment (preferably AWS).
- Experience defining and maintaining SLAs/SLOs and navigating modern observability toolchains.
- Experience operating within regulated compliance frameworks such as SOC2, PCI-DSS, and ISO27001.
- Leadership philosophy focused on "leading from the front" through continuous improvement in people, process, and technology, with humility to empower team ownership.
Skills
Java, Microservices, Kubernetes, AWS, Agile, DevOps, SRE, SQS, Kafka, SQL, NoSQL, Slas, SLOs, Observability, Soc2
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