Job Description

This role requires heavy cross-collaboration with teams across other Platform organizations (Payments, Finance, Partnership) and functions (Product Management, Operations, SOX) to inform, validate, track and influence the implementation and maintenance of the payments platform. This team is currently growing, and the scope includes opportunities to build deeper infrastructural services to provide a platform with which we can easily fulfill business requirements, and offer payment services to people anywhere in the world in a compliant, reliable and cost-effective manner. Core aspects of the role include: Setting and communicating strategy and direction of the team to evolve and maintain current payment systems. Refining team processes and work divisions to enable effective prioritization, planning, and communication of the team s sprint commitments Building relationships and working rhythms across peers and stakeholders in both India and the US Collaborating with organization Staff and Sr. Staff engineers to assist team in aligning architecture trade-offs Coaching and mentoring the team with empathy to do their best work while growing in their roles & responsibilities Creating deliberate plans and opportunities for addressing technical debt & quality, facilitating learning, and encouraging cultural engagement Participating in India site level and global initiatives to create a strong Payments organization Your Expertise 3-5+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, with 9+ years of industry experience with a BS/Masters or 6+ years of industry experience with a PhD Strong coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications. Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture (SOA). Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication. Expertise proactively managing and communicating dependencies across parallel tracks of work and cross-functional stakeholders Demonstrable experience creating expectations, coaching, and mentorship plans for ICs Comfortable independently establishing and validating priorities and direction in the absence of Product Management Track record of contributing to Technical Quality practices and roadmaps for the organization Experience managing distributed teams of varying experience levels Experience managing and interacting with geographically distributed teams and partners is a plus Previous experience building payment systems is a plus