Engineering Manager - Payments Integrations

Jobgether; España; A distancia; EUR 110.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Fully remote Europe

Home-office allowance

Equipment provided

Stock options

Health plan

Flexible days off

Language courses

Professional development

Global payments exposure

International environment

Descripción de la vacante

Jobgether is recruiting an Engineering Manager - Payments Integrations based in Spain to lead a multidisciplinary team connecting a global payments platform with PSPs, acquirers, and gateways. You will own technical direction, architecture, and delivery of critical payment integrations while aligning with product and compliance.

The role blends people leadership with hands-on ownership of backend systems, microservices, and AI-enhanced development practices.

Formación

• Proven experience managing and growing engineering teams.
• Strong technical leadership for architectural decisions in fast-paced env.
• Hands-on backend engineering with Go (Golang).
• 8+ years of production experience with Go.
• Experience with microservices, APIs, and modern integration patterns.
• Familiarity with SQL databases and secure coding practices.

Responsabilidades

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Hire, mentor, coach engineers with structured development.
• Own lifecycle of integrations with PSPs, acquirers, and gateways.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in architecture and reviews.
• Set engineering standards for testing, observability, docs.
• Champion OWASP, data privacy, and compliance.
• Drive APIs and integration frameworks across markets.
• Promote AI-first engineering practices and automated testing.
• Collaborate with Product, Compliance, Business to deliver roadmap.
• Balance priorities and deliver in a fast-moving environment.
• Promote practical agile ways of working.
• Monitor production performance for reliability and security.

Conocimientos

Go (Golang)

Backend engineering

Microservices

APIs

AWS

Code reviews

Herramientas

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL

Descripción del empleo

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager - Payments Integrations based in Spain.

Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for connecting a global payments platform with PSPs, acquirers, and payment gateways worldwide.
You will own the technical direction and delivery of critical payment integrations that support international expansion.
The role combines people leadership with hands-on technical ownership across architecture, development, deployment, and production operations.
You will help shape scalable, low-latency, highly available backend systems and integration frameworks used across multiple markets.
Working closely with Product, Compliance, and Business teams, you will translate a fast-moving roadmap into reliable technical solutions.
You will also champion AI-assisted engineering practices, embedding modern development and testing tools into the team's daily workflows.
This is an opportunity for an experienced Engineering Manager to build a high-performing team while solving complex infrastructure challenges at global scale.

Accountabilities

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team, fostering technical excellence, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Hire, mentor, coach, and support engineers at different levels through clear expectations, regular feedback, and structured development.
• Own the full lifecycle of integrations with payment service providers, acquirers, and payment gateways, from technical design through deployment and production monitoring.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture design, code reviews, complex troubleshooting, and technical decision-making.
• Establish and maintain engineering standards covering coding practices, testing, observability, documentation, and maintainability.
• Ensure secure software development practices are embedded across the team, including OWASP principles, data privacy, and relevant compliance requirements.
• Guide architectural decisions for low-latency, highly available backend systems and microservice-based architectures.
• Drive the evolution of APIs and integration frameworks that can scale across countries, payment methods, and providers.
• Champion an AI-first engineering culture by establishing effective practices for AI-assisted development, code generation, and automated testing.
• Partner closely with Product, Compliance, Business, and other stakeholders to deliver against a rapidly evolving roadmap.
• Balance technical priorities, business requirements, team capacity, and delivery timelines in a fast-moving environment.
• Promote agile ways of working that are practical, adaptable, and effective for the team.
• Monitor production performance and help ensure the reliability, scalability, security, and quality of payment integrations.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing and growing engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
• Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to make architectural decisions and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Significant hands-on backend engineering experience, with strong proficiency in Golang or a comparable programming language.
• 8+ years of hands-on production experience with Go (Golang)is required.
• Strong understanding of microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and modern integration patterns.
• Experience working with SQL and relational databases.
• Solid knowledge of secure software development practices and OWASP principles.
• Experience establishing or championing AI-first engineering practices, including AI-assisted coding, automated testing, and LLM-powered code generation using tools such as Claude Code or similar.
• Experience working in agile engineering environments and adapting processes based on team needs and practical outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Full professional proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Experience in the payments industry or working with PSP integrations is an advantage.
• Hands-on experience with cloud and DevOps technologies such as AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is preferred.
• Strong ownership mindset, problem-solving ability, and enthusiasm for building reliable technology and high-performing teams.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Fully remote work with the flexibility to work from anywhere in Europe.
• One-time home-office allowance to help create a comfortable and effective workspace.
• Company-provided work equipment.
• Stock options.
• Health plan available wherever you are.
• Flexible days off.
• Language courses supporting professional and personal development.
• Professional development and skills-building courses.
• Opportunities to work on global payment infrastructure and complex technical challenges.
• International, collaborative environment with exposure to cross-functional product, business, and compliance teams.