Payments Engineering Manager: Scale Financial Systems

Qualia; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401k

Commuter benefits

Parental leave

Flexible time off

Onboarding program

All-hands meetings

Virtual events

Job summary

Qualia is seeking an entrepreneurial Engineering Manager to lead the Payments team in Austin, TX. You’ll be a builder/player/coach, redesigning how a modern payments function operates with AI-assisted workflows and high-liability systems.

You’ll own architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with Compliance, Risk, and Accounting to meet NACHA, SOC 2, and related requirements while processing billions of dollars annually.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a strong full-stack web developer and 2+ years of experience managing a payments engineering team.
• Experience building or maintaining money-movement systems in regulated environments is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with NACHA, PCI, SOC 2, OFAC screening is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a hands-on Engineering Manager (Player/Coach) to build the payments team.
• Design, build, and maintain systems that process ACH and wire transfers at scale (billions of dollars annually).
• Build and harden payment-processing pipelines that integrate with banking partners and third-party financial APIs.
• Implement controls for wire fraud prevention, transaction verification, and anomaly detection with security/compliance teams.
• Improve and extend core web applications for escrow accounting and money movement.
• Own architectural decisions for payments infrastructure, including data integrity and idempotency.
• Partner with Compliance, Risk, and Accounting to meet regulatory and audit requirements.

Skills

Payments engineering

Full-stack development

Leadership

Architecture decisions

Mentoring

Tools

MongoDB

Kubernetes

AWS

React

NodeJS

Job description

Qualia is seeking an entrepreneurial Engineering Manager to lead the Payments team in Austin, TX. You’ll be a builder/player/coach, redesigning how a modern payments function operates with AI-assisted workflows and high-liability systems.

You’ll own architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with Compliance, Risk, and Accounting to meet NACHA, SOC 2, and related requirements while processing billions of dollars annually.