Engineering Manager for Payments
Remote · Serbia or Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
Job Summary
Lead and grow multiple engineering teams within the Payments domain to ensure reliable, scalable, and auditable money-movement systems; own architectural evolution, reliability, and regulatory compliance; partner with Banking, Compliance, Risk, and Finance teams on regulatory and operational requirements; collaborate with Product on prioritization and execution while maintaining clear ownership; drive engineering standards for scalability, observability, testing, and resilience; mentor engineering leads and senior engineers; drive hiring and scaling of the organization as the payments business grows; ensure payment systems remain reliable under failure and external dependency issues and that financial discrepancies are minimized through strong engineering controls; work in a fintech environment with a focus on payments infrastructure and financial platforms.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years managing engineering teams in fintech or high-scale distributed systems
- Strong experience with payments, banking infrastructure, acquiring, remittance, wallets, or financial platforms
- Proven track record leading teams operating mission-critical systems
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, integrations, and transactional architectures
- Experience building systems with high availability and reliability requirements
- Ability to design systems that handle failure, retries, and eventual consistency
- Familiarity with regulated environments and financial compliance requirements
- Strong engineering management fundamentals: delivery, team development, hiring, and performance management
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional stakeholders
- Strong communication and leadership skills
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