Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Portugal.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the complete technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Monnify payment platform.

• Oversee multiple engineering teams through engineering managers.

• Establish quality standards and enhance organizational capabilities.

• Manage the developer experience across APIs, documentation, SDKs, and ease of integration.

• Propel platform advancement towards multi-currency support and international scalability.

• Guarantee platform reliability, scalability, and security within a regulated environment.

• Collaborate with product, commercial, and operations teams to align technical investments with business objectives.

• Recruit, mentor, and nurture engineering managers and senior engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• More than 10 years of experience in software engineering.

• A minimum of 5 years in leadership roles within engineering.

• Over 5 years of hands-on, production-level experience in Java development.

• At least 5 years of experience managing engineering managers.

• Background in payments, fintech, or financial services products.

• Working knowledge of payment flows and compliance standards.

• Extensive understanding of API-first products, developer platforms, and API integration.

• Demonstrated leadership of multiple engineering teams through managers in a scaling organization.

• Strong backend engineering expertise in high-throughput, distributed transactional systems.

• Experience in building or operating a payment gateway or multi-currency payment platform is a significant advantage.

• Proficiency with Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, microservices architecture, and AWS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Take ownership of the payments infrastructure utilized by thousands of businesses and developers.

• Operate in a fast-paced, technically challenging environment at the heart of financial transactions in high-growth markets.

• Join a mission-driven organization dedicated to broadening access to financial services for millions of businesses and individuals.

• Equal opportunity employer committed to fostering diversity and inclusion.