Software Engineering Manager, Payments Platform

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of Software Engineers. Perform talent reviews, ensure growth opportunities exist for top talent, and build a healthy team culture.
• Exercise the technical judgment and decision-making expected of Staff-level engineers to guide system architecture and design. Ensure technical decisions are made promptly and risks are proactively managed to unblock engineers.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders from Product, Program, Payments Compliance and Export Legal teams to develop new capabilities, publish multi-year roadmaps, and improve the quality and reliability of existing solutions.
• Manage the infrastructure for Sanctions platform, ensuring robustness, scalability, and reliability while actively addressing technical debt.
• Partner with the Product Manager to understand the legal and compliance requirements for sanctions screening, proposing scalable, common or customized solutions.
• - Lead, manage, and develop a team of Software Engineers. Perform talent reviews, ensure growth opportunities exist for top talent, and build a healthy team culture. - Exercise the technical judgment and decision-making expected of Staff-level engineers to guide system architecture and design. Ensure technical decisions are made promptly and risks are proactively managed to unblock engineers. - Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders from Product, Program, Payments Compliance and Export Legal teams to develop new capabilities, publish multi-year roadmaps, and improve the quality and reliability of existing solutions. - Manage the infrastructure for Sanctions platform, ensuring robustness, scalability, and reliability while actively addressing technical debt. - Partner with the Product Manager to understand the legal and compliance requirements for sanctions screening, proposing scalable, common or customized solutions.

Minimum qualifications:

Preferred qualifications:

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience. - 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript). - 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role. - 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role. Preferred qualifications: - Master's Degree or PhD degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. - Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable products and services for external clients. - Experience with large-scale backend server infrastructure (e.g., Monarch, Spanner, etc.). - Proven ability to demonstrate Staff-level technical judgement and decision-making for large-scale backend systems. - Background in the compliance domain. - Excellent working proficiency, communication skills, and experience managing cross-functional stakeholder relationships.