Software Engineering Manager (Payments)

Quick Facts

• Role: Manager, Software Engineering (Payments)
• Work model: 4 days in office (multiple U.S. locations)

Description

Lead a software engineering organization delivering payments platform capabilities, including both product attribute enhancements and new innovations. You will own the EPP (Enterprise Platform Payments) technology roadmap, coordinate cross-team delivery and dependencies, and ensure reliable releases with strong engineering practices. You’ll also govern testing readiness (SIT/QA/hypercare), manage environments, and drive risk/vulnerability remediation while reporting delivery status to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain a team of software engineers
• Collaborate with architects, product managers, and stakeholders to define customer-aligned design approaches
• Ensure engineering and documentation best practices are followed
• Coordinate with peers to maintain seamless functional workflows
• Drive incremental releases to deadlines while optimizing investment and resources
• Evaluate and limit risk and vulnerabilities using industry best practices
• Manage technology budget tracking, forecasting, timesheets, contractor/vendor tracking, and capacity planning
• Partner with support, infrastructure, development, and operations teams on incident triage, recovery planning, and root cause analysis
• Own the EPP technology roadmap, sprint/release planning, go-live milestones, and delivery risk mitigation
• Serve as the coordination point across EPP teams to resolve blockers and manage escalations
• Provide bi-weekly updates to senior leadership on delivery health, readiness, production status, risks, and budget concerns
• Support architecture and solution design reviews; provide implementation guidance
• Manage EPP environment availability, deployment schedules, refreshes, and release conflicts
• Govern mock testing, SIT, QA, command-center execution, and hypercare (including test data prep and readiness assessments)
• Oversee remediation of Qualys, Wiz, Sonatype, and Fortify findings and report compliance status

Requirements

• 10+ years hands-on software development experience building reliable, scalable consumer-facing products
• 7+ years managerial experience leading teams of engineers
• Deep knowledge of software engineering processes/methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, SDLC), configuration management, release management, and systems verification/testing
• Mastery of multiple programming languages, including at least one front-end framework (Angular/React/Vue) and languages such as Python3, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, C, or C++
• AWS/Azure/GCP experience, including managing sensitive assets
• Bash and Linux experience
• CI/CD pipeline experience (CircleCI, Jenkins, or equivalent)
• Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related)

Benefits

• Competitive pay with potential additional incentive earnings (if applicable)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Maternity/paternity leave
• Flexible work arrangements
• Education reimbursement
• Wellness programs
• Paid time off exceeding mandatory paid sick/paid time-away minimums (jurisdiction-dependent)