Engineering Manager - Payments Integrations

Team: IT

Location: Ireland

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team, fostering technical excellence, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Hire, mentor, coach, and support engineers at different levels through clear expectations, regular feedback, and structured development.

• Own the full lifecycle of integrations with payment service providers, acquirers, and payment gateways, from technical design through deployment and production monitoring.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture design, code reviews, complex troubleshooting, and technical decision-making.

• Establish and maintain engineering standards covering coding practices, testing, observability, documentation, and maintainability.

• Ensure secure software development practices are embedded across the team, including OWASP principles, data privacy, and relevant compliance requirements.

• Guide architectural decisions for low-latency, highly available backend systems and microservice-based architectures.

• Drive the evolution of APIs and integration frameworks that can scale across countries, payment methods, and providers.

• Champion an AI-first engineering culture by establishing effective practices for AI-assisted development, code generation, and automated testing.

• Partner closely with Product, Compliance, Business, and other stakeholders to deliver against a rapidly evolving roadmap.

• Balance technical priorities, business requirements, team capacity, and delivery timelines in a fast-moving environment.

• Promote agile ways of working that are practical, adaptable, and effective for the team.

• Monitor production performance and help ensure the reliability, scalability, security, and quality of payment integrations.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing and growing engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, mentoring, and performance management.

• Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to make architectural decisions and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Significant hands-on backend engineering experience, with strong proficiency in Golang or a comparable programming language.

• 8+ years of hands-on production experience with Go (Golang) is required.

• Strong understanding of microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and modern integration patterns.

• Experience working with SQL and relational databases.

• Solid knowledge of secure software development practices and OWASP principles.

• Experience establishing or championing AI-first engineering practices, including AI-assisted coding, automated testing, and LLM-powered code generation using tools such as Claude Code or similar.

• Experience working in agile engineering environments and adapting processes based on team needs and practical outcomes.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Full professional proficiency in written and spoken English.

• Experience in the payments industry or working with PSP integrations is an advantage.

• Hands-on experience with cloud and DevOps technologies such as AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is preferred.

• Strong ownership mindset, problem-solving ability, and enthusiasm for building reliable technology and high-performing teams.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.

• Fully remote work with the flexibility to work from anywhere in Europe.

• One-time home-office allowance to help create a comfortable and effective workspace.

• Company-provided work equipment.

• Stock options.

• Health plan available wherever you are.

• Flexible days off.

• Language courses supporting professional and personal development.

• Professional development and skills-building courses.

• Opportunities to work on global payment infrastructure and complex technical challenges.

• International, collaborative environment with exposure to cross-functional product, business, and compliance teams.