Engineering Manager - Payment Integrations

About the Role

This opportunity is for an Engineering Manager located in Germany to lead a team focused on developing critical payment integration solutions on a global scale. The position blends technical leadership, engineering expertise, and team management to design robust, scalable financial infrastructure. Operating within a fast-paced international context, you will guide the creation of technology that supports seamless cross-market business operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and expand a high-performing engineering team through recruitment, mentorship, and ongoing performance management.
• Develop and execute the technical vision for APIs, payment integrations, and backend services.
• Drive architectural decisions surrounding microservices, event-driven architectures, payment infrastructure, and integration patterns.
• Support engineers in overcoming complex technical challenges through hands-on involvement.
• Promote engineering best practices emphasizing API design, security, testing, performance, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with Product, Backend, Payments, and other cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between technical solutions and business goals.
• Ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, secure, and appropriately documented to handle enterprise-level transaction volumes.
• Participate actively in architecture and code reviews, technical planning, and engineering decision-making forums.
• Enhance engineering workflows by adopting agile methodologies and delivery frameworks.
• Champion AI-assisted software development approaches, including automated testing, code generation, and LLM-enhanced engineering workflows.
• Lead efforts to build secure, compliant payment systems that meet stringent reliability standards.
• Balance competing business priorities with engineering quality and long-term platform evolution.

Candidate Profile and Requirements

• Proven track record managing and growing engineering teams through recruitment, coaching, and performance evaluation.
• Strong architectural capabilities capable of prioritizing and addressing multiple technical initiatives simultaneously.
• Experience in payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure environments, particularly with payment integrations.
• In-depth knowledge of payment systems including PSP integrations, transaction processing flows, tokenization, routing, and optimization.
• Robust backend engineering experience with languages such as Java, Golang, or Kotlin.
• Solid grasp of microservices architectures, API design, event-driven systems, and integration patterns.
• Proficiency with SQL databases and relational data management.
• Awareness of secure coding practices and OWASP security guidelines.
• Experience with instituting standards for AI-based development tools including automated tests and LLM-powered workflows.
• Comfortable delivering software within agile frameworks with practical process implementation.
• Excellent communication abilities to liaise effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Advanced English language skills are essential.
• Strong sense of ownership, problem-solving aptitude, and enthusiasm for building large-scale reliable systems.

Benefits and Perks

• Fully remote position with flexibility to work anywhere within Europe.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Allowance to support an optimal home office environment.
• Company provision of necessary work hardware.
• Participation in a stock option plan.
• Health insurance coverage irrespective of geographic location.
• Flexible paid time off and customizable work schedules.
• Chance to work on pioneering global payment infrastructure and complex engineering challenges.
• Collaborative, international workplace encouraging autonomy and accountability.

Additional Information

The recruiting company utilizes an AI-powered applicant screening system to ensure rapid, unbiased evaluation based on core requirements. Final recruitment decisions and subsequent steps are handled internally by the employer. The application process upholds strict data privacy standards under GDPR, with AI tools assisting but not replacing human decision-making. Applicants can inquire about data processing details if desired.