Engineering Manager, Payments

Responsibilities

• Lead one or more engineering teams responsible for building and operating critical payments systems.
• Set clear team priorities and create an environment where engineers and technical leads can do their best work.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data Science, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and external payment partners to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Navigate complex and ambiguous problems, balance near-term execution with long-term platform health.
• Define a roadmap that supports scale, reliability, regulatory needs, and product innovation.
• Partner closely with technical leads to make sound engineering decisions, reduce systemic technical debt, and uphold operational excellence for systems that move money at global scale.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture.
• Establish technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build, and launch reliable, performant, and scalable solutions.
• Lead team technical initiatives, identify opportunities for business impact, refine and prioritize requirements.
• Lead conversations aligning technical efforts with business outcomes and product priorities.
• Nurture a culture of technical quality, engineering excellence, operational excellence, quality, reliability, and availability.
• Enable and empower ICs to grow impact, lead technical initiatives across platforms and organizations.
• Retain, grow, and hire a team of high-performing engineers; build a strong and diverse team.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years managing an engineering team and 9+ years of relevant software development experience in a fast-paced tech environment.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Strong expertise in building large-scale backend systems and experience with user-facing features.
• Strong product and design instinct with proven experience building delightfully designed experiences.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross-functional partners.
• Flexible leadership style adaptable to various ways of working.
• Experience leading and shipping large initiatives with high business impact.
• Good judgment in tradeoffs balancing short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
• Strong ability to influence decisions from a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Experience fostering an inclusive and engaging team environment.
• Able to identify, retain, grow, and acquire critical talent.
• Strong commitment to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in payments domain, global scale systems, regulatory/compliance environments, or financial systems.