Engineering Manager – Hands-On, Payments
Mighty Networks
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Tech Stack
About the role
- Manage a small, high-performing squad of engineers focused on payments and monetization
- Spend roughly 60% percent of your time writing production code
- Own the technical execution behind checkout, subscriptions, billing, and plan management
- Unblock engineers and help them make practical, high-quality technical decisions
- Drive execution across payments-related work such as checkout improvements, subscription logic, pricing systems, and third-party integrations
- Work closely with product and design to ship improvements that increase conversion and revenue
- Integrate and improve third-party payment platforms so they feel seamless and reliable
- Maintain a high bar for quality, performance, and system reliability
- Coach and develop engineers through direct feedback and ongoing support
- Hire and onboard new engineers as needed
- Push for fast feedback loops and frequent releases
- Act as the escalation point for payment-related systems
Requirements
- Six or more years of experience as an engineer and at least one year leading/managing other engineers
- Strong full-stack experience, ideally with Ruby on Rails and modern frontend frameworks
- Experience working on payments, subscriptions, or billing systems in a real product
- Comfortable integrating third-party payment providers such as Stripe or similar platforms
- Actively technical and currently coding
- Solid understanding of how payments work in practice, including checkout, subscriptions, retries, failures, and edge cases
- Bias toward action and forward progress
- Clear communicator who works well across engineering, product, and business teams
- Comfortable making decisions in situations that are not fully defined
- Interested in using AI tools to improve speed and output
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Hard Skills & Tools
Ruby on Railsfull-stack developmentpayments systemsbilling systemssubscriptionsthird-party integrationscheckout improvementspricing systemsAI toolsproduction code
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingcommunicationdecision makingproblem solvingcollaborationfeedbackaction-orientedorganizational skillssupportive