[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Paymentology

Role Description

As an Engineering Manager at Paymentology, you will lead one mission-critical engineering team, balancing people leadership, delivering excellence, and providing technical guidance. Your primary responsibility is to create an environment where engineers can do their best work, growing as individuals, delivering high-quality systems, and contributing to a strong, supportive engineering culture.

You will partner closely with Product and other cross-functional stakeholders to shape and deliver meaningful outcomes, while ensuring your teams operate effectively, sustainably, and with high standards. This role sits at the intersection of people, delivery, and technology with a strong emphasis on leading through culture, clarity, and accountability.

What You’ll do:

• Lead and Grow People
  • Build, support, and develop a high-performing team of engineers (typically 8-12 individuals)
  • Coach, mentor, and provide continuous feedback to support career growth and progression
  • Create clear development plans and help individuals grow
  • Foster a psychologically safe, inclusive, and high-trust team environment
  • Actively manage performance, recognizing strong contributions and addressing challenges early
  • Support hiring, lead onboarding, and team growth in line with Paymentology’s needs
• Deliver Outcomes Reliably
  • Own delivery of team commitments, ensuring predictable, high-quality execution
  • Partner with Product to shape roadmaps, scope work, and align priorities
  • Maintain clear and accurate delivery plans, proactively managing risks and dependencies
  • Remove blockers and ensure smooth collaboration between teams
  • Drive operational excellence, including incident response and continuous improvement
  • Ensure visibility of progress, metrics, and outcomes across stakeholders
• Provide Technical Leadership
  • Bring experience leading mission-critical, high-volume transaction systems, including balancing technical debt and reliability risks, and planning safe maintenance and release cycles
  • Bring a strong technical foundation, enabling sound decision-making and guidance
  • Contribute to architectural discussions and decisions, to ensure systems are scalable, reliable, and maintainable
  • Drive engineering best practices (testing, observability, CI/CD, AI usage, code quality, security)
  • Support engineers in solving complex technical challenges without becoming a bottleneck
  • Maintain awareness of system health, operational patterns, and technical risks

How you’ll work:

• Be future-focused and pragmatic: keep systems stable while making steady, incremental improvements, anticipating risks, shaping roadmaps, and evolving team processes
• Drive excellence every day: maintaining high standards in delivery, quality, and operations
• Show accountability: owning outcomes and leading decisively during challenges
• Inspire Growth: developing your team, and yourself, and strengthening team capability
• Communicate to Collaborate: ensuring alignment across teams and stakeholders
• Lead with Humanity: building trust, inclusion, and a strong team culture

Qualifications

• At least three years’ experience managing engineering teams, with examples of navigating difficult stakeholder situations and maintaining alignment across functions
• An experienced engineering leader with a passion for people development and team success
• Proven track record of leading high-performing engineering teams and delivering outcomes
• Strong technical background (typically equivalent to a senior engineering or above)
• Comfortable operating in distributed, cross-functional environments
• Experienced in agile delivery, planning, and continuous improvement practices
• A clear, thoughtful communicator who can engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Someone who leads with empathy, ownership, and a strong sense of accountability

What Success Looks Like:

• Your team consistently delivers high-quality outcomes aligned to business goals
• The services your team owns maintain a 99.99% availability with a low defect density, all whilst maintaining high standards of external communications to users and clients
• Engineers in your team are growing, engaged, and performing at their best
• Delivery is predictable, transparent, and continuously improving
• Technical quality and operational standards are high and sustained
• Team culture is collaborative, supportive, and accountable

Benefits

• Working on a global, high-scale payments platform that has real-world impact – it’s not abstract, it’s salaries, rent, medicine. It has to work!
• Be part of a remote-first, globally distributed engineering organization (for this role you will need to be +/- 2 hours CET)
• Lead teams solving complex, meaningful problems in fintech
• Shape engineering culture, process, and ways of working at scale
• Grow your career with a clear and structured career framework

Company Description

At Paymentology, we believe that making a difference starts with the people behind the work. You will be part of a diverse, global team of Paymentologists who are united by a shared mission to advance the world through payments.

This is an opportunity to contribute to meaningful work, collaborate across markets and functions, and help shape the future of a business with global reach and real impact.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on any unlawful ground, including race, colour, ethnicity, sex, gender, pregnancy, marital status, family responsibility, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, language, or HIV status.

Paymentology will never request any form of payment from applicants at any stage of our recruitment process, including for applications, interviews, training, or job placements. If anyone asks you for money while claiming to act on behalf of Paymentology, please treat this as fraudulent and do not make any payment. All legitimate Paymentology vacancies are advertised via our official careers page, and our recruitment emails are sent only from official Paymentology domains.