Engineering Manager - Payments Platform

Engineering@Easygo

Easygo leads the world in crafting top-tier entertainment experiences. Within our engineering organization, we foster a continuous learning environment, constantly pushing the boundaries of large-scale software design and development. Our culture revolves around fostering growth, nurturing learning, and upholding excellence in engineering, ensuring we consistently set the benchmark for engineering mastery.

Why join us?

As an Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of our technical endeavors. Your responsibilities will encompass defining the strategic roadmap for your team, overseeing team growth, and ensuring effective management. Beyond administrative tasks, you will be deeply immersed in the intricacies of design and architecture, providing crucial guidance and expertise, acting as the single threaded owner for all service level objectives of your team.

About the team

Payments Platform is an ambitious new initiative focused on building a highly scalable, secure, high-performance, and compliant payment processing system that supports numerous currencies and payment methods worldwide. This team will build the backbone of our financial operations and will be instrumental in driving revenue growth, enabling global expansion and securing customer trust.

If you're passionate about growth, innovation, and working with the best, we'd love to have you on our team!

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance for building a core service.
• Plan and manage projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers for high performance.
• Recruit and onboard top talent to meet project requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product priorities.
• Ensure code quality, testing, and performance optimization practices.
• Implement security measures and maintain compliance standards.
• Oversee incident management, resolution, and customer-focused improvements.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Extensive professional experience in engineering team management, 5+ years
• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated mastery of software architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• Proven track record of designing and implementing complex, scalable, and robust software systems.
• Experience collaborating with product or program management teams.
• Proven experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and coaching teams of Software Engineers to enhance their skills and effectiveness as product software engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with users, technical teams, and senior leadership for requirements gathering, articulating software features, outlining technical designs, and aligning with product strategy.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Proven track record of building and operating highly scalable payments processing systems.
• Experience with providing critical API services used by both internal and external consumers.
• Experience working in a regulated environment, meeting high standards of compliance and trust.