Engineering Manager [Card Processing Tribe]

Peach Payments; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Card Processing division. You will lead various engineering pods, manage productivity, and drive improvements. Ideal candidates exhibit strong people management skills and payments domain knowledge. The company offers a remote-first work environment and extensive benefits, making it a great opportunity for impactful growth in the digital payments sector.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Generous leave allocation

Market-related salaries

Employee ownership through VSOP

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading people management practices.
• Strong ability to drive efficiency and continuous improvement.
• Comprehensive knowledge of transaction processes and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead pods to enhance their performance and health.
• Manage delivery of product commitments and productivity.
• Facilitate strategic discussions and onboarding processes.

Skills

Agile methodologies

People management

Payments domain knowledge

Technical expertise

Tools

Python

Java

AWS

Terraform

Jira

Job description

Engineering Manager - [Card Processing]

Location: Remote first (Head Office: Cape Town, South Africa; with offices in Johannesburg, Mauritius and Nairobi, Kenya)

Department: Engineering - Card Rails Pod & Orchestration Pod

Company: Peach Payments

About Peach Payments

Peach Payments is a cutting-edge fintech company shaping the future of digital payments across Africa. We empower businesses of all sizes - from startups to enterprise merchants - by providing a secure, scalable, and seamless payments infrastructure.

Team
Mission

Our mission is to deliver secure, intelligent and scalable card payments through ownership of core infrastructure and innovation in processing, tokenization and orchestration.

Your
Mission

• Collaboratively lead the pods to be the best version of themselves.
• You see your pods’ health and output as your primary focus
• You own the delivery of product commitments and are always looking to improve productivity
  
  

Role expectations - Our Expectation of all Engineering Managers:

• Demonstrated experience in leading full-cycle people management practices, including coaching, performance management, career development, conflict resolution, and corrective action [PIPs] when needed.
• Proactively recognizing and addressing personal challenges for direct reports using available resources at Peach
• Keeps abreast of Peach's company-wide goals and vision to ensure the team has the skills and resources to be able to support the business accordingly
• Able to translate between engineering and product/business needs and manage expectations on behalf of their reports.
• Demonstrates strength in long-term (12 months) capacity planning and leads sustainability and resilience initiatives.
• Manages shifting priorities, unplanned work, and scope creep to ensure consistent pod delivery.
• Sets performance expectations, manages workflows, and strategic salary adjustments, with support from our PeopleOps team.
• Is able to support the team with managing their capacity vs business needs
• Flags delivery and timeline risks
• Provides constructive feedback with actionable recommendations.
• Assists the PM with stakeholder management when needed
• Provides coaching and technical training support for direct reports.
• Engages in strategic discussions with the PM on roadmap planning
• Optimises and improves onboarding processes to maximise timely delivery of new hires
• Displays solid leadership to positively shape the pod(s) and Peach.
• Is a force multiplier
• Able to articulate quarterly impact delivered by the pod(s)
• Enables and supports cross-pod collaboration or alignment when necessary

Competencies: What You Bring

Competent in agile methodologies (SCRUM beneficial): Use sprint metrics to drive efficiency and continuous improvement in delivery.

Strong experience designing efficient processes: Sprint ceremonies, on call rotations, incidence response and postmortems.

Strong people management experience: Timely candidate evaluations, run interview processes leading to positive candidate experience; participate in calibration, career conversations, performance review and salary adjustments.

Strong payments domain knowledge: Comprehensive understanding of the steps of a transaction, knowledge of the technologies involved, the regulatory landscape, and the business drivers behind it all (customers, merchants, acquiring banks, etc..)

Technical expertise: You have an engineering background with experience in some of the above listed tech stack items, can participate in high level code reviews, can articulate the implications of tech debt items and advocate for their prioritisation.

Reasonable understanding of DORA metrics and how they can improve engineering performance.

Our Tech Stack

• Languages: Python / Java (Spring Boot microservices, Maven/Gradle)
• Infrastructure/Configuration As Code: Terraform, Ansible, Packer
• Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Serverless, EC2, VPC, RDS)
• Orchestration: Hashicorp Nomad
• Databases: MongoDB, MySQL
• Tools: Cursor, Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, Agential AI (Gemini, Claude)
• CI/CD & Automation: GitLab Pipelines
• Monitoring: Cloudwatch / Grafana / Sentry / Logz.io / Prometheus

Why Join Peach Payments?

• Impact: Work on mission-critical payments infrastructure processing millions of transactions.
• Growth: Be part of a fast-growing company expanding across Africa.
• Culture: Join a high-performance, diverse, and empathetic team focused on respect for people and merchant success.
• Flexibility: Remote-first hybrid working - work from anywhere while staying connected to a world-class team.
• Benefits: Benefits include a generous annual and life leave allocation, market related salaries, owning the piece of the Peach pie through VSOP and more.
  

Be part of our journey to redefine digital payments in Africa!

At Peach Payments we value diversity and are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experiences.