Engineering Manager, Scalable FinTech Platform

TEKsystems; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Disability & Life Insurance

Job summary

TEKsystems in Austin, TX is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the core platform and services powering our ecosystem. This 12-month extending contract centers on delivering secure, reliable, scalable financial experiences used by millions of customers worldwide.

You will drive technical strategy, mentor and grow engineers, and partner with Product, Security, Architecture, Operations, and cross-functional platform teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+years in an engineering management role.
• Proven experience building and scaling highly available distributed systems, payment platforms, financial technology solutions, or transactional services.
• Track record of defining technical roadmaps and successfully delivering complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience leading teams responsible for secure, customer-facing services operating at large scale.
• Strong people leadership skills with demonstrated success mentoring, developing, and growing engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team.
• Define and execute the technical roadmap, balancing platform reliability, security, scalability, and performance with long-term architectural investments.
• Partner with multiple teams to deliver innovative payment experiences aligned with business priorities and customer needs.
• Collaborate with Security, Privacy, Fraud, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure secure and trustworthy payment solutions.
• Drive architecture decisions across payment processing, transaction orchestration, provisioning, authentication, tokenization, and related platform services.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering technical excellence, career growth, and leadership development.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Reliability, and Platform Engineering teams to improve system resilience, availability, and operational efficiency.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to enable seamless integrations across the company.

Skills

8+ years of software engineering

Distributed systems & payments

Technical roadmaps & delivery

Security-focused leadership

People leadership & mentoring

Job description

TEKsystems in Austin, TX is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the core platform and services powering our ecosystem. This 12-month extending contract centers on delivering secure, reliable, scalable financial experiences used by millions of customers worldwide.

You will drive technical strategy, mentor and grow engineers, and partner with Product, Security, Architecture, Operations, and cross-functional platform teams.