Senior Engineering Manager Job California Missouri USA,Finance & Banking

Lead Patreon’s Payments team, which owns payments infrastructure, payments experiences, and support/internal tooling
Partner with Product, Operations, Design, and Data to create the vision and roadmap for payments products
Oversee a team of software engineers
Set technical direction and roadmap priorities with Product, Design, and PMM leads
Drive major infrastructure initiatives including legacy billing deprecation, payments reliability, and local payment methods expansion
Champion operational excellence and improve payments infrastructure reliability and efficiency
Monitor guardrail metrics such as Brand Trust and Total Payment Volume
Manage and grow the team, including hiring, performance, and career development
Collaborate across teams to create cohesive payments experiences
Make build-vs-buy and vendor partnership decisions for payment processing, compliance, and payout infrastructure
Represent Payments in cross-functional planning with Finance, Risk, Support, and GTM stakeholders

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience
5+ years of experience managing an engineering team
Direct experience with payments, billing, or financial infrastructure at scale
Understanding of PCI compliance, payment processing/orchestration, chargebacks, and reconciliation, or adjacent regulated-fintech domains
Experience balancing reliability work and new product initiatives
Experience navigating vendor relationships and build-vs-buy decisions for critical infrastructure
Proven track record shipping high-impact, end-to-end product work in complex domains
People management experience with willingness to contribute hands-on when needed
Strong cross-functional partnership skills
Commitment to building high-craft user experiences
Experience with experimentation-driven approaches and data-informed roadmap decisions
Experience building healthy relationships across Product, Design, business partners, and engineering teams
Experience with international payments expansion, local payment methods, currency conversion, and cross-border compliance (nice to have)
Background in marketplace or creator-economy businesses (nice to have)

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in leading engineering teams within the payments domain, focusing on payments infrastructure, compliance, and operational excellence. Proven ability to drive product vision and roadmap while fostering cross-functional collaboration and managing vendor relationships.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Payments Infrastructure Management
Team Leadership and People Management
PCI Compliance Understanding
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Vendor Relationship Management

Hard Skills

Software Engineering
Payment Processing
Billing Systems
Chargebacks
Reconciliation
Data-Informed Decision Making
International Payments Expansion
Local Payment Methods
Currency Conversion
Cross-Border Compliance

Soft Skills

Strong Partnership Skills
Commitment to User Experience
Hands-On Contribution

Industry Keywords

Regulated-Fintech
Marketplace
Creator-Economy
Operational Excellence
Guardrail Metrics