Manager, Engineering – Payments

Job Description

REQUIREMENTS

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years of experience managing or formally leading software engineering teams.
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed, highly available backend systems in production environments.
• Experience building or operating payments, banking, or financial transaction systems such as payment orchestration, ledgers, reconciliation, or settlement.
• Strong hands-on technical leadership skills, including architecture reviews, system design, technical trade-off discussions, and code-level guidance.
• Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Java, Go, or Kotlin.
• Experience recruiting, coaching, developing, and performance-managing engineers, including senior-level individual contributors.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to partner effectively with Product, Compliance, Risk, and external financial partners.
  

Preferred

• Experience with cross-border payments, correspondent banking, stablecoins, blockchain-based settlement rails, or integrations with banks and payment service providers.
• Familiarity with financial compliance concepts such as KYC/KYB, Travel Rule requirements, transaction monitoring, and regulated payments environments

RESPONSIBILITES

• Lead the day-to-day execution of an engineering team, including planning, prioritization, delivery, and continuous improvement of team processes.
• Provide technical and architectural direction for payment orchestration, ledger and reconciliation systems, and bank or PSP integrations handling high transaction volumes.
• Partner with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Solutions Engineering to define roadmaps and deliver cross-border payouts, managed stablecoin settlement, and bulk payment capabilities.
• Own engineering delivery for key Payments initiatives, including regulated and managed payments expansion, while coordinating effectively across India- and US-based teams.
• Ensure the reliability, security, operational readiness, and financial correctness of payment-critical systems, including incident response and on-call practices.
• Recruit, coach, and develop engineers while owning performance management, career development, feedback, and promotion processes for direct reports.
• Drive engineering goals aligned to Payments business outcomes, including geographic expansion, transaction growth, customer experience, and reliable market launches across APAC and Africa.

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