Engineering Manager, Payments

Job Description

REQUIREMENTS

• You’ve taken full ownership of complex, high-liability payment systems in production, and you know how to respond calmly and methodically when funds are on the line
• 5+ years of experience as a strong full-stack web developer and 2+ years of experience managing a payments engineering team
• Direct experience building or maintaining other money-movement systems (banking, fintech, payments processors, or similar regulated environments strongly preferred)
• Strong understanding of transactional integrity, idempotency, and failure-mode design in financial systems
• Familiarity with payment rails, banking APIs, or financial compliance standards (NACHA, OFAC screening, PCI, SOC 2) is a strong plus
• You have made key architectural decisions for large, high-stakes projects
• You have mentored junior developers
• You have worked on multiple engineering teams, both small and large
• Good product sense, strong attention to detail, and a passion for building systems people can trust with their money
• Background in enterprise software and fintech preferred

RESPONSIBILITES

• Serve as a hands-on Engineering Manager (Player/Coach) to build the payments team
• Design, build, and maintain systems that process ACH and wire transfers at scale (billions of dollars annually), including origination, settlement, reconciliation, and exception handling
• Build and harden payment-processing pipelines that integrate with banking partners, payment rails, and third-party financial APIs
• Implement controls for wire fraud prevention, transaction verification, and anomaly detection alongside our security and compliance teams
• Improve and extend core web applications (frontend and backend) that support escrow accounting and closing-day money movement
• Own architectural decisions for payments infrastructure, including data integrity, idempotency, retry/failure handling, and audit logging
• Partner with Compliance, Risk, and Accounting stakeholders to ensure systems meet regulatory and audit requirements (e.g., NACHA rules, wire fraud regulations, SOC 2 controls)

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