Engineering Manager

1-2 years in an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead Manager role

Payfinia is a SaaS payment hub powering community banks and credit unions across the United States. Our flagship product, IPX (Instant Payment Exchange), enables real-time payment processing across major payment rails including Fed Now and RTP. We build secure, scalable, cloud-native financial infrastructure that empowers smaller financial institutions to compete at the highest level.

We are a fast-growing engineering organization with deep roots in AWS, microservices, and payment compliance.

Payfinia is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager based in India who is as comfortable reviewing a system design as they are running a sprint planning session. You will lead one of our core engineering teams, take full ownership of feature delivery, and work closely with Product, QA, and Dev Ops — as well as our US-based leadership, client teams, and financial institution partners.

This is a hands-on leadership role
. You will operate through 2–3 tech leads and senior engineers while personally engaging in architecture reviews, critical-path technical decisions, and AI-SDLC adoption — not just managing timelines. You will be expected to drive autonomous decision-making during India business hours and maintain proactive communication across a 10–15 hour time zone gap.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 10–15 engineers across Java, Node.js, and React.js stacks, operating through 2–3 tech leads
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations
• Drive hiring — own technical interviews and build a high-quality engineering pipeline
• Foster a culture of ownership, continuous learning, engineering pride, and AI-augmented productivity
• Manage and coordinate with QA team, and external contractors

• Actively participate in architecture, design, and code reviews across the stack
• Make or guide key technical decisions on microservices design, API contracts, data modeling, and integration patterns
• Ensure adherence to engineering best practices: code quality, security-by-design, observability, and documentation
• Own technical quality gates for multi-tenant SaaS releases
• AI-Assisted Development – Drive adoption of AI coding tools (Git Hub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalents) across the team; establish usage guidelines, measure productivity impact, and share best practices
• AI Across the SDLC – Integrate AI into the full development lifecycle: AI-driven test case generation, automated code review augmentation, design document drafting, incident root-cause analysis, and documentation generation
• Measurement & Governance – Define and track AI productivity metrics (AI-assisted code coverage, review cycle time reduction, defect escape rates); ensure AI tooling usage complies with PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and data residency requirements; establish prompt engineering standards and reusable context libraries for the team

• Own the end-to-end delivery lifecycle for your team’s domain – from planning and sprint execution to production deployment and post-go-live support
• Collaborate with Product Managers to refine requirements, estimate effort, and translate roadmap into executable plans
• Drive risk identification and mitigation – proactively surface blockers and manage dependencies across teams
• Support multi-tenant SaaS releases including customer onboarding, integration certification, and go-live events
• Own deployment frequency, lead time, and change failure rate improvements for your team’s domain

• Participate in threat modeling and secure SDLC practices for payment processing workflows
• Ensure team adherence to PCI-DSS, SOC 2 compliance requirements as operational realities, not check boxes
• Support security incident response – coordinate remediation, produce root-cause analyses, and drive hardening initiatives
• Maintain audit-ready engineering practices: code review documentation, change management records, access control hygiene