Engineering Manager, Payments

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Lead the Payments engineering team in delivering dependable, high-quality web application experiences.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to prioritize roadmap initiatives related to payments, billing, and associated customer/business outcomes.

• Navigate the team through intricate technical tradeoffs concerning reliability, maintainability, risk, and delivery speed.

• Develop and mentor engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, feedback, coaching, and performance discussions.

• Collaborate with senior technical leaders to ensure the team produces well-tested, maintainable, and efficient code.

• Assist the team in navigating existing system complexities and pinpoint opportunities to enhance reliability and scalability.

• Clearly communicate progress, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions to relevant stakeholders.

• Recruit and onboard strong engineering talent as the team expands.

• Cultivate a positive, accountable, and high-quality engineering culture.

⛳️ Requirements

• 2–3+ years of experience leading engineering teams as an Engineering Manager or a technical people leader.

• Experience managing web application engineering teams in a SaaS environment.

• Background in payments, billing, financial systems, fintech, subscription platforms, or similarly complex/high-stakes domains.

• Familiarity with payment processing or billing platforms such as Stripe, Recurly, Chargify, or similar solutions.

• Ruby on Rails experience is strongly preferred; knowledge of React or similar web application frameworks is also beneficial.

• Proven track record of guiding teams through the delivery of roadmap initiatives and achieving measurable outcomes.

• Strong judgment regarding technical quality, risk, system complexity, and customer/business impact.

• Genuine passion and history of attracting, developing, and retaining engineering talent.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Multiple health/dental coverage options (100% coverage for employee, 50% for family)

• Vision insurance

• Incentive stock options

• 401(k) match of 4%

• PTO - 4 weeks (increases at year two!)

• 12 company holidays + 2 floating holidays

• Parental leave - birthing parent (16 weeks paid) non-birthing (4 weeks paid)

• FSA & HSA options

• Short and long-term disability (short term 100% paid)

• Community service funds

• Professional development funds

• Wellbeing fund - $150 quarterly

• Business expense stipend - $125 quarterly

• Mac laptop + new hire equipment stipend

• Fully stocked kitchen with a variety of drinks & snacks (BHM only)