Senior Manager, Applications System Development

Global Payments; Pune District; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the Engineering Platform – Global API team and drive delivery of secure, scalable API‑driven payment solutions.

You will blend API domain expertise with strong people management, ownership of delivery, and Agile execution to guide teams across CI/CD, testing, security, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional technology experience, including backend/API platforms.
• 3+ years managing engineering teams and delivering outcomes.
• Strong understanding of API design, security policies, authentication/authorization.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery for modern backend and API-driven solutions across global payment platforms.
• Manage and develop engineering talent, partner with product/architecture teams.
• Drive Scrum ceremonies and delivery planning; ensure best engineering practices.

Skills

People management

API design

REST/microservices

Agile/Scrum

Delivery ownership

Stakeholder communication

Security and reliability

Tools

Apigee Edge

Apigee X

Job description

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow. Ready to take your career global? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Software Development Manager to join our ever-evolving Engineering Platform – Global API team and help lead the delivery of secure, scalable, and high-performing API-driven global payment solutions.

What you’ll own

We are looking for a technically grounded Software Development Manager to lead delivery for modern backend and API-driven solutions across our global payment processing platforms. In this role, you will combine API domain expertise, strong people management, delivery ownership, and Agile execution. You will manage and develop engineering talent, partner with product and architecture teams, drive Scrum ceremonies and delivery planning, and ensure teams follow strong engineering practices across CI/CD, testing, security, reliability, and operational excellence.

What you’ll bring

• Years of Experience: 12+ years of professional technology experience, including strong exposure to backend/API platforms and at least 3+ years managing engineering teams, delivery ownership, or people leadership responsibilities.
• People Management: Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop engineers; manage performance, priorities, and career growth; build accountability; and create a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.
• API and Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of API design, RESTful services, microservices, integration patterns, API gateways, authentication, authorization, security policies, and scalable backend platform delivery.
• CI/CD and Engineering Practices: Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, release management, code quality controls, secure development practices, observability, production support, and continuous improvement across engineering teams.
• Scrum and Delivery Management: Strong experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, daily stand‑ups, reviews, retrospectives, dependency management, and predictable delivery tracking.
• Stakeholder Communication and Ownership: Excellent communication skills with the ability to align engineering, product, architecture, operations, and business stakeholders on priorities, risks, trade‑offs, timelines, and delivery outcomes.
• It’s a bonus if you have Payments or Fintech Domain: Experience working in payments, banking, fintech, or other high‑volume transaction processing environments, with exposure to security, compliance, and operational resilience expectations.
• Apigee and API Management Platforms: Hands‑on experience with Apigee Edge, Apigee X, or similar API management platforms, including API proxy design, policies, traffic management, security monitoring, and operational support, along with exposure to cloud‑native application delivery.
• Leadership and Team Development: Experience hiring, onboarding, mentoring, succession planning, improving team operating models, and helping teams adopt modern Agile and DevOps practices.

About the team

Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

What makes a Globalpayer?

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.

Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law.

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Company Information

At Global Payments (NYSE : GPN), we empower simple, fast, secure payments for everyone. And to do that, we’ve built a complete, worldwide commerce ecosystem that delivers software and services at scale to millions of companies around the world—from ambitious startups to global enterprises. Our team of 27,000 experts is dedicated to your success. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we're a Fortune 500® company and a member of the S&P 500 with worldwide reach spanning North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Wherever you are—or wherever you want to be—we’re there, ready to support you. For more information, visit company.globalpayments.com and follow Global Payments on X, LinkedIn and Facebook.