Engineering Manager, Platform

Overview

Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a Fly Mate! Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a Fly Mate. 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.

We, at Flywire, are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Platform Engineering Team. Your primary responsibility will be to lead a team of developers and coordinate with other disciplines like QA, SRE, Product and Technical Writers. The Platform team is responsible for Flywire’s inbound payments and the handling of funds. We work to ensure a secure, efficient, and transparent experience for both the sender and receiver of funds.

The team is core for Flywire’s business, providing best in class payor experiences, and processing payments in the fastest, most secure and most cost-effective way, enabling vertical solution teams to be able to grow our business and provide an exceptional experience for our clients.

• Support a high-visibility team with significant impact on the company vision and its product.
• Work with a highly motivated independent team of developers, enabling them to produce high quality software and overcome product challenges along the way.
• Work closely with SRE, QA, and Product teams to improve and maintain the core payments Platform in Flywire.
• Manage the career progression for the developers of the team and follow their development on a weekly basis.
• Actively participate in the hiring activities for the Platform team.
• Work closely with other Engineering Managers to foster collaboration between different areas and teams, aligning product initiatives with the company's technical strategy.
• Collaborate actively with other working groups in the company to drive engineering-wide initiatives, while utilizing your years of technical experience.

• Experience in people management, leading and growing a development team of high-performing individuals.
• Good project management skills and successful completion of projects.
• Strong software engineering skills.
• A commitment and drive for high quality, technical excellence and results in accordance with established policies.
• Knowledge about how to successfully work through difficult situations.
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams, and be able to think rigorously and make hard decisions and tradeoffs.
• Soft skills to manage the development of your team members.
• Ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
• Ability to provide technical guidance to the team.
• Expertise detecting talent and fostering motivation and engagement amongst the team.
• Guided by established team’s operational goals and objectives.
• Have foresight and confidence to determine the best approach to manage daily operations.
• Capacity to lead a cross functional project.

• Languages:
  
  Ruby & Java
• React, modern Java script & Typescript
• AWS: EC2, ECS (Fargate), Lambda, Cloudwatch, SQS, Kinesis, S3
• MySQL, Redis, Elastic Search, RabbitMQ, MongoDB
• Docker, Gitlab (CI/CD), Sentry, Sumologic, New Relic

• We are a global company, our engineering team is distributed across 3 continents and 4 different countries. Going to the office is optional, we are totally open to remote work. We encourage people to do whatever is best for their life.
• Our engineering practice is shaped around some of the concepts of Agile, Lean, and Extreme Programming. Each team has a high level of autonomy to organize themselves in the…