Senior Engineering Manager – Payments

Imprint

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsRuby on Rails

About the role

  • Set and execute the technical and organizational strategy for Payments Engineering, balancing speed, scale, cost, and compliance.
  • Collaborate across cross-functional partners (Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, Data) to define goals, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
  • Own delivery and operations of mission‑critical money‑movement services and jobs, with strong SLOs, runbooks, and on‑call quality.
  • Evolve monitoring and alerting around business outcomes and failure modes across payment domains and providers.
  • Lead architecture to simplify flows, improve auditability, and de‑risk migrations as we refactor legacy paths.
  • Lead and develop a diverse, talented team of engineers across a range of seniority levels.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing backend/platform teams operating 24x7 services.
  • Experience building and running payment or financial systems at scale, such as ACH, debit, bill pay, RPPS, or check processing, with strong reconciliation and audit practices.
  • Strong systems architecture skills across distributed systems, data integrity, idempotency, and exactly‑once semantics.
  • Proven track record improving reliability, observability, and on‑call effectiveness in high‑stakes domains.
  • Clear, direct communication; ability to align cross‑functional stakeholders and lead through ambiguity.
  • Nice to have: experience with provider integrations and payment rails, rules/controls frameworks, regulated environments, or large‑scale platform refactors.
Benefits
  • Competitive compensation and equity packages
  • Leading configured work computers of your choice
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
  • Additional health coverage includes access to One Medical and the option to enroll in an FSA
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents
  • Access to industry-leading technology across all of our business units, stemming from our philosophy that we should invest in resources for our team that foster innovation, optimization, and productivity

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
software engineeringbackend developmentsystems architecturepayment systemsdata integrityidempotencyexactly-once semanticsreconciliation practicesaudit practicesmonitoring and alerting
Soft skills
clear communicationdirect communicationstakeholder alignmentleadershipteam developmentcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilitycross-functional teamworkambiguity management