{"id":1767107,"url":"https://alion.io/job/peach-payments-technical-engineering-manager","title":"Technical Engineering Manager","company":{"id":57344,"name":"Peach Payments","domain":"peachpayments.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/peach-payments","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"BambooHR","truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Cape Town, South Africa"],"countries":["ZA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":31000,"max_usd":79000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":1568},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Scrum","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon CloudWatch","optional":true},{"name":"Amazon EC2","optional":true},{"name":"Amazon EKS","optional":true},{"name":"Amazon S3","optional":true},{"name":"Ansible","optional":true},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":true},{"name":"API Gateway","optional":true},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"AWS Lambda","optional":true},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Claude","optional":true},{"name":"Confluence","optional":true},{"name":"Cursor","optional":true},{"name":"GitLab","optional":true},{"name":"Grafana","optional":true},{"name":"Jira","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true},{"name":"MySQL","optional":true},{"name":"Python","optional":true},{"name":"Sentry","optional":true},{"name":"Terraform","optional":true},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-03T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-03","last_verified_at":"2026-10-10T23:25:07Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":38,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":38},"description":"Technical Engineering Manager\nLocation:Remote first (Head Office: Cape Town, South Africa; with offices in Johannesburg, Mauritius and Nairobi, Kenya)\nDepartment:Engineering\nCompany:Peach Payments\nAbout Peach Payments\nPeach Payments is a fast-growing African payment solution provider (PSP) that helps ambitious businesses grow by solving the complexity that comes with scale. For businesses that need a comprehensive payment solution across Africa, Peach Payments delivers payments orchestration, robust security, optimised conversions, and dedicated support via one integration. .\nWe power digital commerce for some of Africa’s most loved brands, including Travelstart,Samsonite, Mukuru, Netflorist, Digicape, and MyRunway, alongside thousands of growing businesses building their future online.\nWith over 180 team members, the company has offices in South Africa, Kenya and Mauritius, and processes payments in 11 African countries across West, East and Central Africa, with further territories coming soon. Peach Payments gives businesses the infrastructure and flexibility they need to operate across borders, reach more customers and expand with confidence.\nTeam\nMission\nYou'll manage two pods:\nMX Pod - owns the merchant onboarding and configuration experience: onboarding, dashboard, merchant login, merchant configuration, user management, transaction listing, user logs, and internal dashboard tooling.\nInternal Services Pod -supports internal teams and operations critical to merchant acquisition and retention.\nYou will build efficient, healthy teams, own delivery of product commitments, and continuously improve productivity.\nRole expectations:\nTechnical direction: Own the team's technical standard, OKRs and KPIs; partner with the Tech Lead on architecture and technical debt prioritisation.\nStakeholder management:Act as lead technical advisor for merchants and stakeholders; lead technical discussions and incident support; upskill Application Engineers.\nHands-on delivery:Review pull requests, guide deployments, lead sprint ceremonies, support roadmap planning and technical discovery, mentor engineers, and step into the Tech Lead role when needed.\nPeople & process:Own performance management, hiring, coaching, career mapping, succession planning and internal mobility; ensure balanced team workload and capacity; report velocity and predictability to leadership.\nCompetencies: What You Bring\nSolid technical expertise as an accomplished software engineer, able to lead technical discussions and grow strong teams.\nStrong people management experience:End-to-end hiring participation , calibration, career conversations, performance and remuneration reviews.\nPayments domain knowledge: comprehensive knowledge of transaction flows, the regulatory landscape, technology, and the business drivers behind them.\nAgile competency (Scrum beneficial), using sprint metrics to drive delivery efficiency.\nOur Tech Stack\nLanguages: Python / Typescript\nInfrastructure/Configuration As Code: Terraform, Ansible, Packer\nInfrastructure: AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Serverless, EC2, VPC, RDS), Kafka\nOrchestration: EKS\nDatabases: MongoDB, MySQL\nTools: Cursor, Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, Agential AI (Gemini, Claude)\nCI/CD & Automation: GitLab Pipelines\nMonitoring: Cloudwatch / Grafana / Sentry\nWhy Join Peach Payments?\nImpact:Work on mission-critical payments infrastructure processing millions of transactions.\nGrowth: Be part of a fast-growing company expanding across Africa.\nCulture:Join a high-performance, diverse, and empathetic team focused on respect for people and merchant success.\nFlexibility:Remote-first hybrid working - work from anywhere while staying connected to a world-class team.\nBenefits- Benefits include a generous annual and life leave allocation, market related salaries, owning the piece of the Peach pie through VSOP and more.\nBe part of our journey to redefine digital payments in Africa!\nAt Peach Payments we value diversity and are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experiences.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4056,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Payment Processing & Gateways"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-03T14:18:05Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":33,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.608,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":37,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/peach-payments-technical-engineering-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/peach-payments-technical-engineering-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-11T02:57:59Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":99,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4901,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":57344},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=57344"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fpeach-payments-technical-engineering-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fpeach-payments-technical-engineering-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fpeach-payments-technical-engineering-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/peach-payments-technical-engineering-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fpeach-payments-technical-engineering-manager"}]}