Engineering Manager, Payroll
Airwallex
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Build, lead, and grow a high-performing Payroll engineering team in London.
- Partner with Product and Design to define roadmap, scope, and success metrics; translate customer needs into an executable plan.
- Own the technical strategy and architecture for Payroll services and APIs, with a focus on scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
- Drive strong delivery practices: planning, prioritisation, execution, and continuous improvement.
- Lead cross-functional execution with stakeholders across Compliance/Legal, Risk, Operations, Support, and other engineering teams.
- Stay hands-on where it matters: guide design reviews, de-risk complex initiatives, and raise the bar on engineering quality.
- Establish operational excellence for production systems (monitoring, incident response, postmortems, reliability improvements), and ensure auditability/traceability is built in.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including strong backend/system design expertise.
- 2+ years experience as an Engineering Manager leading small to mid-sized teams (or equivalent leadership experience).
- Strong product sense: ability to make tradeoffs, iterate quickly, and build for customer outcomes.
- Track record building API- and integration-heavy systems in production environments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills in cross-functional settings.
- Experience in fintech, payroll, payments, or other regulated domains (preferred).
- Experience building 0→1 products/teams and scaling systems as adoption grows (preferred).
Benefits
- Fraud prevention measures
- Equal opportunity employer
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
backend designsystem designAPI developmentintegration systemsscalabilityreliabilitysecuritymaintainabilityproduction systemsincident response
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementplanningprioritisationexecutioncontinuous improvementproduct sensecross-functional collaborationcustomer outcomes