Manager 3, Software Development (Payments Platform)

Intuit; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit is seeking a Group Engineering Manager for Payments Platform to lead a 40–60 engineer team, owning reliability, evolution, and delivery of Intuit's critical payment processing systems. You will drive end-to-end roadmap and major migrations across Bill Pay, Merchant Payments, Gateway, and PPF core infrastructure.

Required: 12+ years in software engineering, 5+ years leading engineering managers, and fintech/financial infrastructure experience.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years leading engineering managers in a multi-team org.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale payments/fintech platforms in production.
• Strong depth in distributed systems, real-time processing, cloud-native architectures (AWS).
• Experience owning 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 platform migrations and modernization programs, including event bus modernization and API-first evolution.
• Establish engineering operating rhythms: sprint reviews, incident retrospectives, KPI tracking, cross-team dependencies.

Skills

Leadership experience

Distributed systems

Real-time processing

Cloud-native (AWS)

Stakeholder partnership

Team development

Delivering KPIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Observability tools (Splunk, Datadog)

CI/CD

Incident management

Job description

Overview

Intuit's Payments Platform (PPF — Payments Processing Framework) is the core infrastructure powering money movement across QuickBooks, Bill Pay, GoPayment, and Merchant Payments — processing billions of dollars in transactions annually. As Group Engineering Manager for Payments Platform, you will lead a team of 40–60 engineers and 3–5 engineering managers, owning the reliability, evolution, and delivery of Intuit's most critical payment processing systems.

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 high engineering velocity while managing reliability and compliance requirements.


• Lead major platform migrations and modernization programs (e.g., payment authorization service migrations, event bus modernization, API‑first platform evolution).


• Establish clear engineering operating rhythms: sprint reviews, incident retrospectives, KPI tracking, and cross‑team dependency management.

Technical Leadership

• Set architectural direction for the payments processing framework — distributed systems, real‑time transaction processing, idempotency, and settlement infrastructure.


• Guide adoption of modern engineering practices: progressive rollouts, chaos engineering (Gameday), multi‑region active/passive failover, and observability (Splunk, golden signals, PagerDuty).


• Evaluate and drive AI‑first capabilities within the payments platform, including intelligent routing, anomaly detection, and agentic automation of operational workflows.


• Ensure platform meets PCI‑DSS, SOX, and Intuit's security and compliance standards without sacrificing delivery velocity.

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, coach, and develop 3–5 engineering managers and their teams; build a strong leadership bench with clear succession paths.


• Foster a culture of ownership, engineering excellence, and customer‑first thinking — where teams understand the business impact of their systems.


• Partner with recruiting to attract and retain senior engineering talent.


• Drive performance management, calibration, and career growth conversations across the org.

Cross‑functional Partnership

• Partner with Product Management to co‑own initiative prioritization and roadmap trade‑offs.


• Work closely with Risk, Compliance, and Finance teams to ensure platform decisions account for regulatory requirements and cost of processing.


• Represent the Payments Platform org in leadership reviews, architecture forums, and incident post‑mortems.


• Collaborate with peer engineering teams (Wallet, Gateway, Risk, Reconciliation) to align on shared infrastructure and resolve cross‑team dependencies.

Operational Excellence

• Own platform SLAs for availability, latency, and error rates across production payment flows.


• Drive reduction in MTTD and MTTR through improved alerting, runbooks, and on‑call practices.


• Lead quarterly KPI reviews tied to TPV, cost per transaction, processing success rate, and platform reliability.

Qualifications

Required

• 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), and high‑availability design patterns.


• Experience owning engineering delivery against business KPIs — not just technical metrics.


• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Product, Finance, Risk, and Compliance stakeholders.


• Track record of building and developing high‑performing engineering teams at senior/staff levels.

Preferred

• Experience with payment processing systems, card networks, ACH/FedNow/RTP, or settlement infrastructure.


• Familiarity with PCI‑DSS, SOX controls, and operating in regulated financial environments.


• Hands‑on experience with observability tools (Splunk, Datadog, PagerDuty) and progressive deployment practices.


• Background in AI‑assisted engineering workflows or intelligent payments capabilities.


• Prior experience at a fintech, payments processor, or financial services company.

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