Engineering Manager, Payments Platform

The Opportunity:

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 Flywires 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 Flywires 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.

Engineering Managers in Flywire have a good technical background so they are able to keep the technical vision and development practices moving on the right path. They can directly contribute from their experience remove blockers and reduce risk to ensure successful team deliveries. They also lead development teams and support their developers to grow both personally and technically.

In This Work You Will:

• 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 companys technical strategy.
• Collaborate actively with other working groups in the company to drive engineering-wide initiatives while utilizing your years of technical experience.
   

Qualifications :

We are looking for:

• 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 teams operational goals and objectives.
• Have foresight and confidence to determine the best approach to manage daily operations.
• Capacity to lead a cross functional project.

Main Technologies We Use:

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

Our Culture:

• 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 way they consider most appropriate to execute their mission.
• We actively engage in knowledge sharing by hosting internal cross-discipline events.
• We encourage people to contribute to open source projects whenever possible.
• We contribute to our local communities by hosting different events Meetups etc.
   

Additional Information :

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation including Restricted Stock Units 
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program 
• Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
• Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
• Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health Wellness) with Global FlyMates 
• Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact
• Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in and Digital Disconnect Days!
• Great Talent & Development Programs

Submit today and get started!

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager Peers on the team the VP of the department and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your go-to person for any questions.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. With over 30 nationalities across 12 different offices and diversity and inclusion at the core of our people agenda we believe our FlyMates are our greatest asset and were excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time