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The future of payments is being built today, and at Paymentology, we are looking for people who want to help shape it. We power card issuing for leading banks, fintechs and digital brands across the globe, and as we continue to grow, we are looking for curious, ambitious people who thrive on solving complex challenges, embrace innovation and want to make a tangible impact at global scale.\nAs an Engineering Manager at Paymentology, you will lead one, mission-critical engineering team, balancing people leadership, delivering excellence and technical guidance.\nYour primary responsibility is to create an environment where engineers can do their best work, growing as individuals, delivering high-quality systems and contributing to a strong, supportive engineering culture.\nYou will partner closely with Product and other cross-functional stakeholders to shape and deliver meaningful outcomes, while ensuring your teams operate effectively, sustainably and with high standards.\nThis role sits at the intersection of people, delivery and technology with a strong emphasis on leading through culture, clarity, and 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visibility of progress, metrics and outcomes across stakeholders\n\nProvide Technical Leadership\nBring experience leading mission-critical, high-volume transaction systems, including balancing technical debt and reliability risks, and planning safe maintenance and release cycles.\n\nBring a strong technical foundation, enabling sound decision-making and guidance\n\nContribute to architectural discussions and decisions, to ensure systems are scalable, reliable and maintainable\n\nDrive engineering best practices (testing, observability, CI/CD, AI usage, code quality, security)\n\nSupport engineers in solving complex technical challenges without becoming a bottleneck\n\nMaintain awareness of system health, operational patterns and technical risks.\n\nHow you’ll work:\nThis role aligns internally with the Engineering Manager (M3) level, where impact is measured through team outcomes, people growth, delivery effectiveness, and the reliability and availability of the systems the team owns.\nYou will:\nBe future-focused and pragmatic: keep systems stable while making steady, incremental improvements, anticipating risks, shaping roadmaps, and evolving team processes.\n\nDrive excellence every day: maintaining high standards in delivery, quality and operations\n\nShow accountability : owning outcomes and leading decisively during challenges\n\nInspire Growth : developing your team, and yourself, and strengthening team capability\n\nCommunicate to Collaborate: ensuring alignment across teams and stakeholders\n\nLead with Humanity: building trust, inclusion and a strong team culture\n\nWho you are:\nAt least three years’ experience managing engineering teams, with examples of navigating difficult stakeholder situations and maintaining alignment across functions.\n\nAn experienced engineering leader with a passion for people development and team success\n\nProven track record of leading high-performing engineering teams and delivering outcomes\n\nStrong technical background (typically equivalent to a senior engineering or above)\n\nComfortable operating in distributed, cross-functional environments\n\nExperienced in agile delivery, planning and continuous improvement practices\n\nA clear, thoughtful communicator who can engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders\n\nSomeone who leads with empathy, ownership and a strong sense of accountability\n\nWhat Success Looks Like:\nYour team consistently delivers high-quality outcomes aligned to business goals\n\nThe services your team owns maintain a 99.99% availability with a low defect density, all whilst maintaining high standards of external comms to users and clients.\n\nEngineers in your team are growing, engaged and performing at their best\n\nDelivery is predictable, transparent and continuously improving\n\nTechnical quality and operational standards are high and sustained\n\nTeam culture is collaborative, supportive and accountable\n\nWhy Join Paymentology:\nWorking on a global, high-scale payments platform that has real world impact - it’s not abstract, it’s salaries, rent, medicine. It has to work!\n\nBe part of a remote-first, globally distributed engineering organisation (for this role you will need to be +/- 2 hours CET)\n\nLead teams solving complex, meaningful problems in fintech\n\nShape engineering culture, process and ways of working at scale\n\nGrow your career with a clear and structured career framework\n\nAt Paymentology, we believe that making a difference starts with the people behind the work. You will be part of a diverse, global team of Paymentologists who are united by a shared mission to advance the world through payments.\nThis is an opportunity to contribute to meaningful work, collaborate across markets and functions, and help shape the future of a business with global reach and real impact.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on any unlawful ground, including race, colour, ethnicity, sex, gender, pregnancy, marital status, family responsibility, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, language or HIV status.\nPaymentology will never request any form of payment from applicants at any stage of our recruitment process, including for applications, interviews, training or job placements. If anyone asks you for money while claiming to act on behalf of Paymentology, please treat this as fraudulent and do not make any payment. 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