Director of Engineering
Remote (U.S.) or hybrid from select U.S. offices
Salary Range - 150,000-200,000
About the Company
Our client is a fast-growing fintech building next-generation infrastructure for modern commerce. Their platform brings together the full lifecycle of payments into a single, unified solution—enabling businesses to accept payments, manage risk, and move money globally with greater efficiency and control.
Serving a diverse range of industries—from travel and ticketing to insurance, media, and digital marketplaces—the company is redefining how businesses handle complex payment workflows at scale. With a strong growth trajectory and a product-first mindset, they are on a path to becoming a category leader in the payments space.
The culture is highly collaborative, transparent, and performance-driven. Teams are empowered to take ownership, challenge ideas, and contribute meaningfully to both product innovation and company direction.
The Role
This is an opportunity for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team while remaining deeply involved in building cutting-edge products. You’ll play a key role in delivering scalable, cloud-native solutions within a modern payments platform.
The role blends technical leadership with execution—you’ll guide architecture and delivery while still spending meaningful time coding and solving complex engineering problems. If you enjoy building products from the ground up, leading strong teams, and operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, this could be a great fit.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Drive end-to-end delivery across the software development lifecycle, from initial concept through to production
- Work cross-functionally with Product, Architecture, and QA to define and execute on technical roadmaps
- Champion engineering best practices across CI/CD, testing, system observability, and security standards
- Stay hands-on with development (roughly 25% of your time), contributing to code, reviews, and technical problem-solving
- Support production reliability through monitoring, incident response, and continuous system improvements
- Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes clearly to senior stakeholders
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience leading engineering teams in a fast-paced environment
- Solid understanding of database design and performance optimization (SQL Server or similar)
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred)
- Strong grasp of software architecture and distributed systems principles
- Comfortable working in Agile environments with distributed teams
- Excellent communication skills and a proactive, ownership-driven mindset
Nice to Have
- Experience within fintech, payments, or financial services
- Familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, or Bitbucket
- Exposure to CI/CD and deployment tooling (e.g. Azure DevOps or similar)
- Interest in or experience with AI-assisted development tools
Why Join?
- Competitive compensation package
- Flexible working model (remote-first with optional office access)
- Unlimited PTO
- 401(k) with company match
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- High-growth environment with real career progression opportunities
- A chance to build and scale a product that is reshaping the payments landscape
Equal Opportunity
Our client is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.
