Engineering Manager - Payments Integrations

Jobgether; France; À distance; EUR 110 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Fully remote in Europe

Home-office allowance

Stock options

Company-provided equipment

Health plan

Résumé du poste

Jobgether is seeking an Engineering Manager for Payments Integrations to lead a global backend team delivering scalable payment integrations. You will own architecture across APIs, microservices, and low-latency systems, while championing AI-assisted development and secure practices.

The role combines people leadership with hands-on technical ownership, collaborating with Product, Compliance, and Business teams to support international expansion and evolving roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and growing engineering teams.
• Strong architectural leadership and ability to balance priorities.
• Significant backend experience with Go (GoLang).
• Experience with microservices, APIs, and modern integration patterns.
• Relational databases and SQL proficiency.
• Knowledge of secure SDLC and OWASP principles.
• Experience championing AI-first engineering practices.
• Proven track record in agile environments and effective collaboration.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication.
• Experience in payments or PSP integrations is a plus.

Responsabilités

• Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team and foster technical excellence and ownership.
• Hire, mentor, coach, and support engineers with clear growth paths.
• Own end-to-end lifecycle of payment integrations with PSPs and gateways.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in architecture, reviews, and troubleshooting.
• Set engineering standards for coding, testing, observability, and maintainability.
• Ensure secure development practices and compliance considerations.
• Guide architecture for low latency, high availability backend systems.
• Evolve APIs and integration frameworks for multi-country scale.
• Promote AI-first practices and automated testing.
• Collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Business teams on roadmap delivery.

Connaissances

Team leadership

Architecture leadership

Go (Golang) backend

Microservices & APIs

SQL databases

Secure SDLC (OWASP)

AI-assisted development

Agile methodologies

Cloud & DevOps (AWS)

Communication with stakeholders

Outils

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Claude Code / AI tools

Description du poste

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 France.

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.

How Jobgether works:

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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