Manager 2, Engineering - Payments (Fintech)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States

Base pay: $222,000–$300,500 per year in Mountain View; the position may also be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a global financial technology platform serving consumers, small businesses, and self-employed customers through products including TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp.

What you will do

• Lead, grow, and develop a team of software engineers building and operating omnichannel checkout experiences and APIs.
• Own delivery of checkout capabilities and conversion-funnel improvements that work consistently across channels, including latency, offline or degraded connectivity, and device-form-factor constraints.
• Align roadmaps, resolve dependencies, and build cross-functional relationships with Program Management, Business Analysts, Development Managers, and other partners.
• Champion code quality, testing, architecture reviews, operational excellence, team health, and strong delivery execution.
• Lead adoption of GenAI platforms and AI-assisted workflows, including intelligent features in the Checkout platform and improvements to shared engineering platforms.
• Structure and scale a large multi-pod engineering organization, including tech leads and other managers, while remaining hands-on enough to guide technical decisions and remove blockers.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a people manager or established technical leader of software engineering teams delivering customer-facing or compliance-critical software products.
• 8–12+ years of hands-on software development experience building reliable, scalable experiences and services.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, empower engineers, build strong team culture, and manage multiple concurrent workstreams and deadlines.
• Expertise in software design and architecture, with a strong technical background in distributed backend systems, microservices, and SaaS architecture.
• Hands-on experience while managing, including participation in high-level system design and evaluation of complex technical trade-offs.
• Experience with frontend and backend technologies, Agile development methodologies, and SaaS technologies.
• Proven experience building and operating high-availability, fault-tolerant platforms in fintech, payments, tax compliance, or other regulated or compliance-driven domains where data integrity and transaction accuracy are critical.
• Demonstrated success managing large engineering organizations, including other managers or tech leads, through complex multi-system initiatives.
• Practical experience leveraging AI technologies such as LLM integrations, AI-driven development tools, or automated testing models to improve engineering efficiency and product innovation.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• BSc/MSc in Computer Science or equivalent work-related experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in payments, fintech, or other regulated or compliance-driven domains.
• Experience working with global teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Customer-driven engineering focused on making payments simple, fast, and reliable for small businesses and enterprises.
• Collaborative work across multiple pods and cross-functional business partners.
• Competitive compensation with performance-based rewards.
• Potential eligibility for cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits under applicable plans and programs.
• Commitment to fair-pay comparisons across ethnicity and gender categories.