Engineering Manager

Phorest Software

Engineering Manager overseeing teams within the Pay Pillar at Phorest, driving fintech product development and team performance. Focusing on mentoring engineers and ensuring operational excellence.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeRemote • 🇮🇪 IrelandJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsJavaKotlinRuby

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, mentor, and develop an engineering team within the Pay Pillar.
Foster a culture of continuous learning, personal growth, and open communication to enhance team engagement and performance.
Actively participate in recruiting, onboarding, and building a diverse and inclusive team.
Provide strong technical guidance, ensuring best practices, scalability, and maintainability in all solutions.
Work closely with the Principal Engineer to prioritize and address technical challenges effectively.
Contribute hands-on where needed—reviewing code, supporting system design, and guiding the team in building complex distributed systems.
Partner with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineering teams to deliver cohesive, high-quality solutions.
Champion the observability strategy, ensuring service level objectives (SLOs) are defined and met.
Implement robust monitoring tools to proactively detect and address system issues.
Drive the execution of key technical projects, ensuring timely delivery while maintaining quality.
Regularly report to the Senior Engineering Manager on progress, strategy, and team challenges requiring support.

Requirements

What you’ll need

2+ years demonstrated impact in a similar leadership role, at scale and having direct reports
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a similar related field
Strong proficiency and 5 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design - (for example Java, Kotlin, Ruby)
Experience designing scalable resilient solutions ideally in fintech domain
The ability to collaboratively lead the evolution of your team’s strategy, setting unambiguous roadmaps and goals for the team and then delivering on them in a healthy, predictable and sustainable way
You should be comfortable coaching team members. You will communicate expectations clearly and deliver individual feedback frequently
You have a proven history of building close working relationships with your product counterparts and external stakeholders (like payment providers or 3rd party solutions), with the ability to inspire and motivate, improve quality and productivity, while maintaining technical innovation and excellence
Strategic thinker, with an ability to express and convey thoughts in meaningful ways in a fast paced and evolving environment, with a high degree of autonomy
Experience working with and managing Agile teams, as well as driving improvement across the whole development process
Experience developing and supporting engineers in their personal growth and career progression. You foster an environment where communication, teamwork, and collaboration are rewarded
You’ll focus on quality, while increasing efficiency, delivering value and reducing waste
Experience with monitoring and observability tools.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Your wellbeing is important to us - we provide private healthcare, 2 Wellness Days, an employee assistance program and a free online GP service.
As part of our Financial Wellbeing, we provide competitive Compensation, an Employee Share Purchase Scheme, Pension, Life Assurance, and Income Protection.
We help you travel by providing a bike to work scheme as well as tax saver transport tickets.
We support the women who work in Phorest by offering 2 weeks leave for Fertility Treatment, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause.
We care for your family and provide Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits.
We grow our own timber! We provide a great learning environment and extensive development opportunities. We run development programs and provide access to many online resources including LinkedIn learning.
Moving house? Phorest employees get 3 moving days.

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Hard Skills & Tools

object-oriented software designJavaKotlinRubyscalable solutionsdistributed systemsmonitoring toolsobservability strategysystem designtechnical project execution

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationstrategic thinkingcoachingteam engagementrelationship buildingfeedback deliveryproblem-solving

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science