Engineering Manager (Payments & Credit Cards)

We are delighted to be recruiting for an Engineering Manager as part of a rapidly expanding engineering team, we are seeking Engineering Managers to lead critical product initiatives across Payments and Cards verticals. This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments and is ready to shape the technical direction and culture of their team.

We’re looking for strong technical leaders who are comfortable rolling up their sleeves, mentoring engineers, and driving execution — while also contributing to architecture and strategy. If you’re passionate about building modern, scalable systems and creating high-performing teams, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership: Lead a small team of engineers, providing mentorship, career guidance, and fostering a culture of excellence, ownership, and accountability.
• Technical Strategy: Contribute to technical architecture and direction, ensuring alignment with broader product goals and long-term scalability.
• Execution & Delivery: Work closely with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of features and systems.
• Hiring & Growth: Play a key role in hiring, onboarding, and growing the engineering team with a focus on team health, diversity, and performance.
• Operational Excellence: Champion best practices in observability, reliability, and incident response. Ensure code quality, performance, and maintainability.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive retrospectives and improvement initiatives, ensuring the team evolves alongside our products and customers.

To be successful, you will need to have:

• Experience: 12+ years in software engineering, with recent years spent in engineering leadership roles (preferably leading small, cross-functional teams). Candidates with strong IC backgrounds and deep domain expertise may also be considered.
• Domain Knowledge: Experience in Payments, Credit Cards, or Fintech is strongly preferred. This includes familiarity with industry standards, regulations, and transaction flows.
• Technical Proficiency: A strong foundation in backend systems, API design, distributed architectures, and cloud-native patterns. Exposure to technologies such as Node.js, Typescript, NestJS, Serverless, and AWS Lambda is highly desirable.
• Database Expertise: Solid understanding of relational databases (AWS Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and ORM frameworks (e.g., TypeORM, Prisma).
• Startup Mindset: Comfortable operating in a high-growth, dynamic environment. Resourceful, pragmatic, and able to balance velocity with quality.
• Cultural Fit: You bring energy, empathy, and a strong sense of ownership. You’re excited about building not just software, but also strong teams and a vibrant engineering culture.

Tech Stack:

• Cloud: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Backend: Typescript, Node.js, NestJS, Serverless, AWS Lambdas
• Data: AWS Aurora (MySQL/Postgres), Prisma, TypeORM

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