Engineering Manager- Payments

Overview

Engineering Manager for Payments responsible for owning the end-to-end money path: payment corridors, EU (and beyond) license operationalization, and the payments product surface across API and GUI.

What you'll do

• Stand up a new Payments pod and define its charter.
• Launch and operationalize new payment corridors from partner integration through pilot to general availability.
• Ensure live corridor reliability including settlement timeliness, failure handling, and partner degradation/failover with runbooks.
• Translate regulatory obligations (EU and beyond) into running systems for safeguarding customer funds and transaction monitoring with audit trails.
• Own payments product capabilities including initiation, quoting, tracking/statuses/webhooks, returns/recalls, reporting, and dashboard experience.
• Run the pod’s roadmap, standards, and on-call posture, staying hands-on with design reviews and production debugging.

What you'll need

• 2+ years managing a full team of 5+ engineers with a Tech Lead or senior IC reporting.
• Strong backend IC track record and still writes code.
• Ability to design an API/schema and produce idiomatic, runnable, tested code.
• Production experience operating payment systems (orchestration/ledgers/settlement/reconciliation) with money-path failure mode understanding.
• Experience integrating banking/payment/FX partners through sandbox-to-production and degraded-mode operation.
• Deep distributed systems correctness for money movement (idempotency, exactly-once effects, concurrency, reconciliation).

Details

• Location: Bengaluru.
• Team size: roughly 8 to 15 engineers and QA.
• Weekly product shipping cadence with zero-downtime, backward-compatible releases and tested rollbacks.