Manager, Engineering - Payments

Overview

Manager, Engineering – Payments leads a Payments engineering team building backend systems for cross-border settlement and payments operations.

What you'll do

• Lead day-to-day execution for engineering planning, prioritization, delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical and architectural direction for payment orchestration, ledger/reconciliation, and bank/PSP integrations.
• Partner with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Solutions Engineering to define roadmaps and deliver cross-border payouts and bulk payment capabilities.
• Own engineering delivery for key Payments initiatives, coordinating across India- and US-based teams.
• Ensure reliability, security, operational readiness, and financial correctness of payment-critical systems, including incident response/on-call.
• Recruit, coach, and develop engineers; own performance management, career development, and promotion processes.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years managing or formally leading software engineering teams.
• Experience designing/building/operating distributed, highly available backend systems in production.
• Experience building or operating payments/banking/financial transaction systems (e.g., orchestration, ledgers, reconciliation, settlement).
• Hands-on technical leadership (architecture reviews, system design, trade-off discussions, code-level guidance).
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages: Java, Go, or Kotlin.
• Experience recruiting/coaching/developing/performance-managing engineers.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with Product/Compliance/Risk and external financial partners.

Details

• Location: Bangalore – remote first in India.
• Requires regular working-hour overlap with US-based teams.