Software Engineering Manager, Payments

Leads and develops the Money Movement engineering team, overseeing scalable, compliant payment infrastructure, payment-rail expansion, and modernization into a standalone service. Requires 8+ years of programming experience, 3+ years managing engineers, payments-platform leadership, and hands-on technical involvement.

About the job

Responsibilities

Develop the engineering team across the Money Movement domain and help define the long-term payments vision.
Expand payment rails across the United States and internationally while ensuring reliable, timely payments for customers and their employees.
Lead, empower, and coach engineers; provide technical guidance and consistent execution for payment rails and money movement capabilities.
Recruit, hire, onboard, and develop engineering talent across experience levels.
Remove team roadblocks and deliver scalable engineering solutions on schedule.
Own reliable, efficient, compliant, and cost-effective end-to-end money movement across payment rails, including on-call ownership, SLOs, and error budgets for tier-1 systems.
Partner with Payment Operations, Accounting, Treasury, Product, Design, Data Science, and upstream product teams to resolve payment issues and make tradeoffs that build customer trust.
Lead the extraction of money movement into a standalone payments service with clean API contracts and a rails-factory architecture.
Foster innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence while communicating strategy to senior management and stakeholders.
Review code and contribute hands-on programming when needed.
Incorporate relevant AI capabilities into engineering workflows, tooling, and decision-making.

Requirements

8+ years of relevant hands-on programming experience.
3+ years of engineering management experience.
Experience managing a payments platform team.
Experience guiding teams strategically while contributing hands-on when needed, including code review and programming.
Experience growing and managing talent across varied experience levels.
Ability to navigate complex and ambiguous problem spaces.
Experience shipping cross-functional projects and driving business growth.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.

Nice to Have

Higher education.
Experience with payment rails, money movement systems, and payment provider or bank integrations.
Experience operating highly available, horizontally scalable, tier-1 systems with SLOs, on-call ownership, error budgets, and resilient databases.
Familiarity with AI capabilities relevant to engineering teams.

Compensation

Targeted annual cash compensation is $183,000–$200,000 in Denver and most remote locations.
Targeted annual cash compensation is $222,000–$245,000 in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York.
Employees based in Denver, San Francisco, and New York offices generally work onsite approximately 2–3 days per week or more depending on the role.
Full-time employees receive benefits and equity (RSUs).