Engineering Manager

Sapiom builds payment infrastructure for AI agents. The Engineering Manager will lead and grow an engineering team while partnering with product to deliver the roadmap, contributing code, and maintaining reliable, auditable systems for money movement.

Responsibilities

• Partner with our product manager to deliver the roadmap on time: know your team's real capacity and scope projects accurately, so the roadmap reflects what you can ship well, and flag risks before they become slips
• Spend about half your time shipping: take on hard features, review pull requests, and set the bar for testing, observability and code quality by example
• Own correctness and reliability for money movement: idempotency, reconciliation, incident response and on-call, so every transaction is accounted for and outages are rare and short
• Build a team engineers want to work and grow in, with a culture of trust and high ownership, regular, direct feedback and a growth plan for every person
• Build an engineering practice that scales: set how we build and ship, make security part of everyday work, and manage tooling, vendors and cloud costs in partnership with ops
• Grow your team with the founder and recruiting: shape the hiring plan for your area, run a structured interview loop, close strong candidates, and help new engineers ship to production in their first week

Skills

• 7+ years as a software engineer and engineering manager in payments or fintech, including time directly managing engineers who shipped production systems that move real money
• Deep knowledge of how money moves in software: ledgers, idempotency, reconciliation, card and bank rails, and the compliance constraints (PCI, KYC) that shape system design
• You still want to be a hands-on engineer: you love writing production backend code, reason clearly about distributed systems and data consistency, and earn your team's trust in design and code review
• Fluent in AI: you use coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor daily, keep up with the latest models and tooling, and experiment with what helps the team build a better product without letting quality slip
• A record of executional excellence at startup pace: you've shipped roadmaps on time with a product partner, cut scope without cutting quality, and say plainly when something will slip
• You grow people: you've hired strong engineers, given hard feedback with care, built career paths, and seen engineers you managed earn promotions
• You've managed engineers at a Series A or earlier startup, or built agent, stablecoin or machine-to-machine payment systems

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