Engineering Manager (Payments)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Payments): Leading a cross-functional engineering team across frontend, mobile, and backend to build and operate infrastructure for global payments with an accent on technical direction, delivery quality, and sustainable operational processes. Focus on growing engineers, managing incident response and on-call practices, defining system metrics, and solving delivery and reliability challenges in a high-stakes fintech environment.

Location: Remote; applications are listed for the United Kingdom, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and South Africa. The company is globally distributed and has operated remotely since day one.

Company

hirify.global provides unified infrastructure for global payments, helping finance and payments teams improve visibility, control, performance, and revenue from a single platform.

What you will do

• Lead a cross-functional team spanning frontend, mobile, and backend engineering.
• Own a defined area of software architecture, including technical direction, delivery, and quality.
• Run development processes covering sprint health, delivery cadence, incident response, postmortems, and sustainable on-call rotations.
• Grow engineers through feedback, performance conversations, and stretch assignments.
• Partner with product to scope initiatives, manage risks, and prioritise deliverables.
• Define system metrics, identify performance variance, and address reliability risks before they become incidents.

Requirements

• Professional background as a software engineer with hands-on experience building and shipping production systems.
• Experience managing a team of engineers and developing effective engineering processes.
• Ability to lead engineers across frontend, mobile, and backend disciplines, or willingness to ramp up across unfamiliar parts of the stack.
• Technical credibility to evaluate design decisions, challenge assumptions, and contribute to architecture discussions.
• Experience with operational ownership, including on-call practices, incident management, and postmortems.
• Clear communication with stakeholders and leadership, with the autonomy to make decisions and escalate appropriately.

Nice to have

• Experience managing full-stack or cross-functional teams; the team is backend-leaning and uses Python.
• Background in fintech, payments, or another regulated and high-stakes technical domain.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and high-throughput, high-availability infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote and globally distributed work environment.
• Workations, an annual company retreat, and co-working space access across major cities.
• Competitive share options and uncapped holiday with a minimum of 25 days to be taken.
• Private medical insurance and location-dependent additional benefits.
• Home office setup contribution of £500, role-specific equipment, and a generous learning budget.
• Strong onboarding, collaborative work practices, and an inclusive environment.

Hiring process

• Introductory call with a Talent Partner.
• Interview with the Hiring Manager, followed by a role-specific challenge.
• Final values-alignment interview.