Experienced Engineering Manager (Payments)

Location: New York City office, hybrid; United States

Salary: $264K–$400K annually, plus potential equity and/or commission

Company

hirify.global builds financial connectivity and payment infrastructure used by developers, fintechs, banks, billers, and other businesses to connect accounts and move money.

What you will do

• Set engineering strategy for Payments with the Product Area Lead, balancing product delivery and foundational investment across three teams.
• Manage three engineering managers, including coaching, performance calibration, and management-bench development.
• Own technical direction for account verification, payment risk, ML and data pipelines, money movement rails, customer-facing APIs, and dashboards.
• Maintain reliability and correctness standards for systems handling financially consequential transactions.
• Lead recruiting and hiring across the organization and maintain pipeline health.
• Partner with product, data science, PMM, go-to-market, payment operations, compliance, and customers on strategy and execution.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience and 4+ years of engineering management experience, including 1+ year managing managers.
• Experience leading an engineering organization of 20+ through an engineering-manager layer.
• Experience owning transactional, high-reliability systems where correctness and availability have direct financial consequences.
• Track record of building technical foundations that created compounding returns.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with product, data, operations, and business teams.

Nice to have

• Bank payments experience with ACH, RTP, FedNow, or card rails.
• Experience shipping ML-powered risk or fraud products.
• Experience leading AI transformation in an engineering organization.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission focused on improving financial freedom and making the financial ecosystem more equitable.
• Commitment to diversity, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations in recruiting and interviews.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
• Additional equity and/or commission may depend on the position offered; pay and benefits may change according to applicable plans.