Payments Infrastructure Lead (Remote) – Equity & Growth

Yellow Card; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first flexibility

Global & diverse team

Mental health support services

Stock options for full-time employees

Job summary

Yellow Card is seeking a Product Manager, Payments Infrastructure, to own the rails, settlement, and multi-currency processing that power our platform. You will collaborate with the Payment Experience PM, Compliance, and Treasury to ensure reliable, scalable, and compliant payment flows across markets.

You will focus on architecture decisions, partner integrations, and driving the roadmap for banking, liquidity, and Stablecoin rails to support fast, accurate settlements and reconciliations

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Product experience, with 3+ years in payments infrastructure, rails, ledgers, or core banking/transaction systems in fintech or crypto.
• Strong technical fluency for architecture discussions (APIs, distributed systems, data consistency).
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Product, or a related field; fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for core payment processing infrastructure including rails, ledger, settlement engine, and currency conversion.
• Own settlement logic across banking partners, liquidity providers, and Stablecoin rails and multi-currency routing.
• Collaborate with Compliance and Treasury to embed regulatory and liquidity requirements into infrastructure.
• Define and track reliability, scalability, and metrics for payment systems and incident response.
• Document infrastructure capabilities for other teams and act as the go-to technical resource.

Skills

Product management

Payments infrastructure

Technical fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Time management under pressure

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering/CS/Product

Job description

Yellow Card is seeking a Product Manager, Payments Infrastructure, to own the rails, settlement, and multi-currency processing that power our platform. You will collaborate with the Payment Experience PM, Compliance, and Treasury to ensure reliable, scalable, and compliant payment flows across markets.

You will focus on architecture decisions, partner integrations, and driving the roadmap for banking, liquidity, and Stablecoin rails to support fast, accurate settlements and reconciliations