Engineering Manager

Corpay Cross Border; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Earned leave

Group medical insurance

Wellness allowance

Commuting allowance

Provident Fund

Meal card

Job summary

Corpay Cross Border in Chennai is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team building cloud-native backend services and event-driven systems for our eMoney and FX platforms.

You will partner with Product Managers, Architects, and other leaders to translate business goals into technical roadmaps while fostering ownership, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence. You will remain technically engaged in architecture and reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or related field.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of people management experience.
• Strong experience with C# and .NET, AWS, and serverless architectures.
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing software engineering team.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture focused on ownership and excellence.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, coaching, and career development.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and retention of engineering talent.
• Mentor team members and create development opportunities.

Skills

C# & .NET

Cloud-native architecture

Event-driven design

Distributed systems

Leadership & management

Technical decision-making

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CloudFormation / Terraform

Kafka

EventBridge

RabbitMQ

SQS/SNS

Job description

Your role – What you’ll be doing

Engineering Manager

Corpay is currently looking to hire an Engineering Manager within our Alpha division. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will lead a team of Software Engineers responsible for designing, developing, and evolving the cloud-native applications, backend services, and event-driven systems that underpin Corpay's eMoney and FX platforms. This team focuses on delivering software that improves operational efficiency, enables business capabilities, and provides reusable technical solutions across the organisation. The systems your team develops automate business processes, connect systems through event-driven architectures, and enable scalable, reliable software that supports Corpay's global payments ecosystem.

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for building and leading a high-performing engineering team while ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions. You will work closely with Product Managers, Architects, and fellow Engineering Managers to balance technical excellence with business priorities, fostering an engineering culture built on collaboration, ownership, continuous improvement, and delivery.

Although this is a people leadership role, you will remain technically engaged, contributing to architectural discussions, technical decision-making, solution design, and engineering best practices while empowering your team to own implementation and delivery. At Corpay, we value leaders who create environments where engineers can thrive. We encourage servant leadership, continuous learning, technical excellence, and open collaboration, enabling our teams to build reliable, scalable software that supports the wider engineering organisation.

How We Work

• A collaborative and supportive engineering environment based in our Chennai office
• Company-issued equipment
• Formal onboarding and leadership support
• Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development
• Exposure to modern cloud-native technologies and engineering practices
• Opportunities to collaborate with globally distributed engineering, product, architecture, and leadership teams

Role Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• Conduct regular one-to-one meetings, performance reviews, coaching sessions, and career development conversations.
• Support recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, and retention of engineering talent.
• Identify skill gaps within the team and create development opportunities through mentoring, coaching, and knowledge sharing.

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership across the team's cloud-native applications, backend services, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Collaborate with Architects and Senior Engineers to shape technical direction, solution design, and architectural decisions.
• Ensure engineering standards, coding practices, security principles, and software quality expectations are consistently applied.
• Remain technically engaged, contributing to design discussions, technical reviews, and engineering decision-making where appropriate.
• Encourage engineering best practices including testing, observability, maintainability, scalability, and secure software development.

Delivery & Execution

• Partner with Product Managers to translate business objectives into achievable engineering roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Ensure successful delivery of high-quality software through effective planning, prioritisation, estimation, and execution.
• Remove delivery blockers and help the team navigate technical and organisational challenges.
• Balance short-term business priorities with long-term technical sustainability and platform evolution.
• Monitor delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and technical debt, ensuring proactive communication with stakeholders.

Operational Excellence

• Support the design and evolution of scalable cloud-native applications that improve operational efficiency and enable business capabilities across Corpay.
• Encourage the development of reusable backend services, event-driven architectures, and scalable system integrations.
• Drive continuous improvements across engineering processes, software quality, developer experience, and operational performance.
• Work closely with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to ensure applications are resilient, observable, secure, and operationally reliable.
• Promote a culture of learning through retrospectives, technical discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Collaboration & Communication

• Build strong working relationships with Product Managers, Architects, Engineering Managers, and business stakeholders.
• Communicate engineering progress, technical risks, delivery updates, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
• Foster effective collaboration across globally distributed engineering teams.

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional software engineering experience designing and building scalable backend systems and cloud-native applications.
• Minimum of 3 years of people management experience leading software engineering teams.
• Strong experience developing applications using C# and modern .NET.
• Strong experience designing cloud-native applications using AWS and serverless architectures.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and event-driven architecture.
• Strong experience designing and developing event-driven applications using messaging and event streaming technologies such as Amazon EventBridge, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS/SNS, or similar.
• Experience designing reusable backend services, workflow automation, business process orchestration, and system integrations.
• Experience defining cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, including AWS CloudFormation.
• Good understanding of Kubernetes and modern cloud deployment environments.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability practices for production systems.
• Strong understanding of secure software development principles and cloud security best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical delivery while coaching and developing engineers.
• Experience managing engineering delivery, balancing technical priorities with business outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and organisational skills.
• Ability to analyse complex business processes and guide teams in designing scalable software solutions that improve operational efficiency.
• Excellent leadership, coaching, mentoring, and decision-making skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience within financial services, payments, banking, or other regulated industries.
• Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Clean Architecture, and modern software architecture patterns.
• Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as Redis.
• Experience contributing to CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience leading distributed or geographically diverse engineering teams.

Benefits & Perks

• Earned leave, sick leave, casual leave, national holidays, maternity, paternity, bereavement, and adoption/surrogacy leave.
• Group medical insurance for employees and eligible dependents.
• Personal accident insurance.
• Wellness allowance and annual health check-ups for employees and their families.
• Broadband reimbursement and meal card support.
• Commuting allowance.
• Provident Fund, Voluntary Provident Fund, Gratuity, and Pension benefits.
• Opportunities to participate in philanthropic initiatives.
• Inclusive workplace culture with employee engagement activities and company events.

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About Corpay

Corpay is a global technology organization that is leading the future of commercial payments with a culture of innovation that drives us to constantly create new and better ways to pay. Our specialized payment solutions help businesses control, simplify, and secure payment for fuel, general payables, toll and lodging expenses. Millions of people in over 80 countries around the world use our solutions for their payments. At Corpay, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace where employees are valued for their diverse perspectives, experiences, and contributions. We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion strengthen our teams, drive innovation, and support our continued success globally.

As part of our hiring process, offers of employment may be subject to the successful completion of pre-employment screening conducted by an authorized third-party provider, in accordance with applicable laws and Corpay policies. Screening requirements may include employment references, identity verification, criminal record checks, financial or sanctions screening, and other background checks relevant to the role and permitted by local law.

Transparency & Compliance

Transparency & Compliance Equal Opportunity Employer Corpay is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Corpay is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where individuals are respected and valued for their diverse perspectives, experiences, and contributions. If you require reasonable accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, please notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in Hiring

Corpay may use artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology-enabled tools to support certain aspects of the recruitment process, such as application screening, candidate assessment, or interview scheduling. These tools are designed to enhance efficiency, consistency, and fairness throughout the hiring process. AI tools do not make final hiring decisions. All employment decisions involve human review. Corpay is committed to the responsible use of AI, including appropriate oversight and safeguards designed to support fair and unbiased outcomes.

Candidate Privacy Notice

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Pay Philosophy

Corpay is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation practices. Compensation decisions are based on objective, job-related factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and market benchmarks. Where required by applicable law, salary or compensation ranges will be included in the job posting or provided prior to the interview process, where required by applicable law. Additional compensation elements such as bonuses, incentives, benefits, or variable pay may apply where applicable. Fast-growing, global, rewarding, fun, involved – at Corpay, we are all of these and more. If you are an experienced and self-motivated professional who can perform at a high level, you will be rewarded. If you have great ideas, we want to hear them. If you want your career to grow at the same rapid pace as our organization, this is the place for you. Whatever your area of expertise, you can take it to the next level at Corpay.