FinTech Platform Engineering Manager — Hybrid

TEKsystems; United States; Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKsystems in Austin, TX is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team powering our core platform and services. It is a 12-month extending contract with 3 days onsite and 2 days work from home.

The role drives technical strategy, mentors engineers, and partners with Product, Security, Architecture, Operations, and cross-functional platform teams. Ideal for leaders in large-scale fintech and security-focused environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 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 delivering complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience leading teams responsible for secure, customer-facing services operating at large scale.
• Strong people leadership skills with mentoring, developing 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 experience

Technical roadmaps

Security-focused leadership

People leadership

Job description

TEKsystems in Austin, TX is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team powering our core platform and services. It is a 12-month extending contract with 3 days onsite and 2 days work from home.

The role drives technical strategy, mentors engineers, and partners with Product, Security, Architecture, Operations, and cross-functional platform teams. Ideal for leaders in large-scale fintech and security-focused environments.