Engineering Leader - Payments APAC

United States Digital Space LLC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks an Engineering Lead for APAC to steer payments engineering across the region, align with product and commercial leadership, and ensure delivery of the regional strategy with global impact.

This role requires a strong strategic mindset to work across time zones, manage cross-functional stakeholders, and drive scalable, maintainable payment platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in a leadership role.
• Experience hiring and managing a sizeable software development organisation (ideally 25-50 engineers), including managing managers.
• Experience in the Payments Industry and building large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide clear guidance, purpose, and mission for engineering teams.
• Create an environment that fosters continuous innovation and be at the forefront of payments in APAC.
• Serve as the primary face of engineering for merchants in the region and build strong relationships.
• Partner globally to deliver one platform while meeting regional needs.
• Accountable for timely project delivery, blockers removal, and planning.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Java experience

Job description

This is the company

the company provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At the company, everything we do is engineered for ambition.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Engineering Lead: Payments

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Engineering Lead to lead our engineering efforts across APAC. You will be instrumental in developing and scaling payment innovations for our merchants, while leveraging this knowledge for global impact. This role requires a strong strategic mindset to work in lock-step with product and commercial leadership, ensuring the delivery of our regional strategy and contributing to our global platform.

This highly visible position requires working across time zones, aligning with diverse internal and external stakeholders, and challenging the status quo.

What You'll Do

As the Engineering Lead (APAC), reporting to the SVP of Payments and collaborating with peers globally, your focus will be:

• Provide clear guidance, purpose, and mission for engineering teams.
• Create an environment that fosters continuous innovation, and be at the forefront of payments in the region.
• A people-first leader. Develop and build a best-in-class team comprising the right skills to lead and win.
• Serve as the primary face of engineering for our merchants in the region you are responsible for, building strong relationships and understanding their unique requirements.
• Partner globally to ensure the delivery on one global platform while meeting the specific needs of the market.
• Accountable for the execution of key projects, ensuring timely delivery, tracking progress, removing blockers, and assisting with planning and prioritization as needed.

Who You Are

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years as a leader - building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams within global companies, with a track record of delivering complex, scalable platforms
• Experience hiring and managing a sizeable software development organisation (ideally 25-50 engineers), including managing managers, and setting an exemplary engineering culture
• Skilled in building large-scale, distributed systems, ideally with expertise in Java or similar programming languages, and a passion for software architecture, scalability, and maintainability
• Experience in the Payments Industry.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and you are capable of translating complex technical concepts into clear, concise language, You are a great story teller, and are comfortable talking to tech & non-tech audiences, as well as merchants and internal stakeholders
• You are comfortable streamlining the team's engineering operations, refining product requirements together with product and merchants and encouraging effective collaboration
• You like to keep things simple, love dealing with uncertainty and get things done.
• You’re curious about what our biggest merchants are facing and you’re empathetic to solving problems that help all merchants

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at the company.

What’s next?

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

the company is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.