Head of Payments Platform Engineering

Intuit; Elyria (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit's Payments Platform team seeks a Group Engineering Manager to lead 40–60 engineers and 3–5 engineering managers, owning the reliability, evolution, and delivery of Intuit's most critical payment processing systems.

You will drive platform migrations, establish operating rhythms, and collaborate with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Finance to balance speed with security and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years leading engineering managers in a multi‑team organization.
• Proven track record delivering large‑scale payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure platforms in production.
• Strong technical depth in distributed systems, real‑time transaction processing, cloud‑native architectures (AWS).
• Experience owning engineering delivery against business KPIs and partnering with Product, Finance, Risk, and Compliance.

Responsibilities

• Own end‑to‑end delivery of the Payments Platform roadmap across Bill Pay, Merchant Payments, Gateway, and PPF core infrastructure.
• Drive quarterly sprint execution across multiple sub‑teams, maintaining velocity while managing reliability and compliance.
• Lead major platform migrations and modernization programs (e.g., payment authorization service migrations, event bus modernization, API‑first platform evolution).
• Establish clear operating rhythms: sprint reviews, incident retrospectives, KPI tracking, and cross‑team dependency management.
• Partner with Product Management, Risk, Compliance, and Finance to balance regulatory requirements and cost of processing.

Skills

Leadership of eng managers

Payments platform

Distributed systems

AWS / cloud-native

Stakeholder partnering

Tools

Splunk

Datadog

PagerDuty

Job description

Intuit's Payments Platform team seeks a Group Engineering Manager to lead 40–60 engineers and 3–5 engineering managers, owning the reliability, evolution, and delivery of Intuit's most critical payment processing systems.

You will drive platform migrations, establish operating rhythms, and collaborate with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Finance to balance speed with security and regulatory requirements.