Engineering Manager - Enterprise Payments

Prolific - UK Job Board?; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology firm shaping AI is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead cross-functional teams and drive technical excellence. You will empower engineers, facilitate strong communication with stakeholders, and contribute to the innovation of AI infrastructure. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience in cloud-based application development and a passion for mentoring high-performing teams. This remote role offers the chance to work on cutting-edge projects in the UK.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, including cloud-based applications.
• Proven experience in engineering management with a track record of technical leadership.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and empower engineering teams to deliver customer value.
• Mentor engineers and support their professional growth.
• Collaborate with product managers to align technical direction.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Communication

Cloud-based application development

Team mentoring

Technical decision-making

Fintech knowledge

Tools

Django Rest Framework

Serverless architectures

Job description

Engineering Manager - Enterprise Payments

Remote, UK

Prolific is not just another player in the AI space – we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that reshapes AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditized, it is the quality and diversity of human-generated data that truly differentiates products and models.

At Prolific, our product development group is a powerhouse of Engineering, Product, Data, Design, and Research – all working in lockstep. You will thrive in cross-functional teams, each with a clear mission and the freedom to self-organize and innovate toward the best possible outcomes. We are passionate about moving fast, continuously improving, and we champion strong engineering principles and a culture of ownership.

As an Engineering Manager, you will inspire, empower, and elevate. You will cultivate high-performing engineers and champion good engineering practices. Working hand-in-hand with your Product Manager, you will ensure your team is set up for success and poised to deliver exceptional customer impact.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role where your expertise will directly impact the technical excellence of your teams\' work. You will drive technical decision-making and collaboratively build scalable, resilient, and maintainable systems that power the future of AI.

What you'll be doing

• Lead with Impact: Take full accountability for leading, coaching, and empowering one or more engineering teams to consistently deliver outstanding customer value.
• Develop and Grow Talent: Be a coach and mentor, actively nurturing the professional growth of your engineers, including impactful hiring, onboarding, performance management, and supporting career advancement.
• Unblock and Accelerate: Champion a healthy and predictable pace of work by proactively planning, removing blockers, orchestrating dependencies, and fostering crystal-clear communication within and beyond your team.
• Strategic Partnership: Collaborate closely with product managers and your team to define both what to build and how to build it to ensure consistent and high-impact pace.
• Technical Leadership: With your team, drive the technical solution design and implementation, ensuring alignment with the overarching technical direction.
• Sustainable Innovation: Collaborate closely with product managers and the team to manage technical debt and toil and provide support for existing systems. Implement and maintain standards for creating secure, high-performance, observable, and well-tested code that ensures long-term reliability.
• Cultivate Excellence: Foster a powerful ownership culture characterized by DevOps practices, continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence.
• Shape the Future: As a key member of the engineering leadership team, contribute to defining and evolving Prolific's engineering practices, from our collaborative ways of working to our architectural direction.

What you'll bring

• Proven Leadership: Extensive experience in engineering management and a demonstrable track record of technical leadership that inspires and delivers.
• Strategic Problem Solver: Exceptional problem-solving acumen coupled with strategic thinking.
• Clear Communicator: Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to lead diverse teams, influence stakeholders, and collaborate effectively across all levels.
• Technical Depth: 5+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on expertise building highly available, transactional, and distributed cloud-based applications (e.g., e-commerce platforms, marketplaces, or SaaS solutions).
• Passion for People Development: A genuine passion for developing others, with significant experience in managing, motivating, coaching, and mentoring high-performing individuals and teams.
• Bridge Builder: Fluency in translating complex technical solutions and their feasibility into clear, compelling narratives for non-technical stakeholders.
• Fintech/Payments Experience: Billing, Payments, Pricing & fees, financial reporting and account infrastructure are big pluses.

Our Technology Stack

• Frameworks: Django Rest Framework, Serverless architectures, container-based services

Join Prolific and play a critical role in shaping the human data infrastructure powering the next generation of AI innovation. Apply now and let's build the future, together.

We look for people who want to contribute to a mission-driven culture and work remotely from the UK. If you're excited about shaping AI with diverse human data and a strong ownership mindset, we want to hear from you.