Senior Director, B2B Engineering, Americas Site Lead

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Flywire is seeking a Senior Director of B2B Engineering to lead and scale our Americas engineering organization, with a strong preference for Austin, Texas. This role combines engineering strategy, payments expertise, and AI-driven development to shape a high-impact B2B platform.

You will partner with product, commercial, operations, and leadership to drive the tech roadmap, while establishing Austin as a strategic engineering hub and building a high-performing internal team.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with leadership at director level.
• Experience leading engineering teams in payments, fintech, B2B software, or enterprise SaaS.
• Strong depth in backend systems, APIs, cloud platforms, security, reliability.
• Proven success building engineering organizations and managing vendors.
• Ability to work with executives and cross-functional partners.
• AI-forward mindset with experience applying AI to product/engineering outcomes.
• Location-based leadership in Austin preferred; Chicago considered for exceptional candidates.

Responsibilities

• Lead B2B engineering org: strategy, delivery, architecture, scalability.
• Define technology roadmap with CTO and leaders.
• Build and scale internal engineering team, reduce external dependency.
• Serve as Americas engineering site lead for Austin.
• Drive an AI-first engineering mindset across product and platform.
• Ensure scalable, secure, maintainable B2B platform.
• Recruit, mentor and develop senior engineers.
• Represent B2B engineering to executives with clear updates.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Payments / fintech

Backend systems

Distributed architecture

APIs & integrations

Security & reliability

AI-forward mindset

Executive communication

Talent magnet

Job description

• Full-time

Company Description

Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate!

Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.

What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!

Who we are:
Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in higher education. We’ve since scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients across the world.

Today we support more than 5,100 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies.

With over 1,200 global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.

Job Description

The Opportunity

Flywire is seeking a Senior Director, B2B Engineering to lead and scale our B2B engineering organization across the Americas, with a strong preference for this leader to be based in Austin, Texas.

This is a critical leadership role at the intersection of engineering strategy, payments innovation, AI-first product development, and site leadership. The Senior Director will own the technology strategy and execution for Flywire’s B2B business, partner closely with Product, Commercial, Operations, and Engineering leadership., This leader will also serve as the engineering site lead for Austin, helping establish Austin as a strategic engineering hub for Flywire. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in payments, high-volume transaction systems, enterprise B2B platforms, and modern engineering practices, with the leadership maturity to operate at senior levels across a complex, global organization.

What You’ll Do

• Lead Flywire’s B2B engineering organization, owning technical strategy, delivery, architecture, execution, and long-term scalability.
• Partner with the CTO, Product, B2B business leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders to define and deliver the technology roadmap for Flywire’s B2B business.
• Build and scale a high-performing internal engineering team, reducing dependency on external contractors and strengthening Flywire’s internal IP, technical depth, and operating leverage.
• Serve as the Americas engineering site lead, helping establish Austin as a strategic technology hub and creating the foundation for future engineering growth.
• Drive an AI-first engineering mindset, identifying opportunities to leverage AI to improve product capabilities, engineering productivity, automation, customer experience, and platform intelligence.
• Bring strong technical leadership across payments, high-volume transaction processing, enterprise integrations, financial workflows, reliability, security, and scalable platform design.
• Establish engineering standards, operating rhythms, accountability, and delivery discipline across the B2B engineering function.
• Partner closely with Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Data, Product, and Commercial teams to ensure the B2B platform is scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned to Flywire’s broader technology strategy.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop senior engineering leaders and technical talent, creating a culture of ownership, urgency, collaboration, and high performance.
• Represent B2B engineering in executive-level discussions, providing clear communication on priorities, risks, tradeoffs, delivery timelines, and investment needs.
• Help shape Flywire’s technical brand in Austin and the broader Americas market.
  

Qualifications

Here’s What We’re Looking For

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant leadership experience at Director, Senior Director, or equivalent level.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams in payments, fintech, B2B software, high-volume transaction systems, marketplaces, financial platforms, or enterprise SaaS.
• Strong technical depth in modern backend systems, distributed architecture, APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, reliability, security, and scalable platform design.
• Demonstrated success building or transforming engineering organizations, managing external vendors and driving high performance driven engineering culture.
• Experience partnering directly with business, product, and executive stakeholders to define technology strategy and deliver business-critical outcomes.
• Strong understanding of payment flows, financial systems, transaction processing, reconciliation, compliance, risk, or related fintech infrastructure.
• AI-forward mindset, with practical experience applying AI, automation, or data-driven capabilities to improve product and engineering outcomes.
• Experience building engineering culture in a hub or site leadership capacity strongly preferred.
• Ability to operate with executive presence, influence senior stakeholders, and navigate complex organizational dynamics.
• Strong talent magnet with the ability to attract, assess, hire, coach, and retain exceptional engineering talent.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical topics for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Location preference: Austin, Texas. Chicago may also be considered for exceptional candidates.

What Success Looks Like

• In the first 6 to 12 months, this leader will:
• Establish a clear technology strategy and operating model for B2B engineering.
• Build trust and credibility with B2B business leaders, Product, Engineering, and executive stakeholders.
• Begin transitioning critical B2B engineering capability from external contractors to internal Flywire talent.
• Hire and develop a strong core engineering team in Austin or another strategic Americas hub.
• Improve delivery discipline, engineering quality, platform reliability, and technical ownership.
• Identify practical AI-first opportunities that improve product capability, customer value, and engineering productivity.

Why This Role Matters
Flywire’s B2B business is a strategic growth area, and the technology foundation behind it is critical to our ability to scale. This role is not simply about managing engineers. It is about building the right technical strategy, strengthening internal ownership, modernizing how we deliver, and establishing a senior engineering presence in the Americas that can help shape the next chapter of Flywire’s growth.

Additional Information

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager and other Flymates. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for questions.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer and follows a policy of administering all employment decisions and personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, national origin, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, genetic disposition or carrier status, veteran status, or any other category protected under applicable national, federal, state or local law.

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