[Hiring] Engineering Lead @Payabli

Role Description

We're hiring an Engineering Lead, PayIn - the team that owns how money comes into Payabli. PayIn powers everything our partners use to accept payments from their customers:

• Payment APIs
• Recurring billing and autopay
• Invoices and payment links
• Hosted pages and the virtual terminal
• Embedded checkout and digital wallets
• Surcharging
• Card-present devices
• Check rails like lockbox and remote deposit

It also owns what happens after the payment:

• Batching
• Funding
• Transfers
• Reconciliation across multiple card processors, ACH, and check processing partners

PayIn is absolutely critical to the business. Success in this role means PayIn scales with the business - more volume, more partners, more payment methods - with reliability and quality partners take for granted and a team that delivers at pace.

PayIn is also where Payabli's intelligence meets the payment:

• Smarter risk decisions at checkout
• Proactive detection of failures and duplicate payments
• Agents that handle disputes and exceptions

We're looking for a mature operator who has been there, seen that, and done it before. You bring steady judgment when the stakes are high, hold a critical team to a high standard, and look around corners to find trouble before it finds us.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production backend systems, including 3+ years leading engineering teams responsible for business-critical services
• Payments experience is required
• Experience building or leading systems in payment acceptance, gateways, acquiring, or funding - card, ACH, or both
• Experience scaling a critical team and its systems
• Ability to set expectations and hold the line
• Ability to build visibility across teams and systems
• Experience making hard technical calls
• Deep hands-on backend engineering experience in any modern language
• Experience designing and evolving RESTful and event-driven APIs
• Clear communicator who can influence

Requirements

• Experience integrating directly with card processors and acquirers
• Card-present experience - semi-integrated terminals, Tap to Pay/SoftPOS, or device management at scale
• Check processing experience - lockbox, X9, or remote deposit capture
• Deep familiarity with ACH and NACHA rules
• Experience with surcharging, convenience fees, split funding, or recurring billing platforms
• Familiarity with PCI DSS and tokenization
• Experience leading distributed teams across time zones
• Experience at a vertical SaaS or embedded payments platform

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock options with the potential to unlock more equity as we grow
• Flexible PTO and paid parental leave
• Medical, dental, & vision insurance
• 401K, HSA, pre-tax savings programs

Company Description

At Payabli, you'll have a front row seat into building a high-growth venture backed fintech company. As a senior leader in Operations, you'll shape how the organization scales and be the driving force behind our AI-first operations strategy.

• Values driven company that cares deeply about our team, partners, and customers
• Recognized by industry organizations including being named No. 43 on the 2026 Inc. 5000
• Named to the 2026 Forbes Fintech 50
• Included in Inc.’s 2025 Best Workplaces
• Listed in Built In’s 2026 Best Places to Work in Miami