Engineering Manager Payments
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Job Location:
San Mateo, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
13 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the Role:
As an Engineering Manager in Payments - Foundation you will lead the vision and execution for the core payment services that facilitate fiat monetary transactions on the platform. This role is of extremely high importance directly impacting Robloxs revenue and user experience globally. You will be working directly with a number of cross-functional partners from Product teams all the way to Finance and Accounting influencing our business growth direction. Specifically your team will be responsible for the mission-critical systems that handle:
- Payment Provider Integration: Owning the end-to-end integration and lifecycle management of key external payment processors (e.g. credit cards regional payment methods app stores) ensuring high availability and seamless connectivity.
- Funds Acquisition: Managing the complex backend flows responsible for securely and accurately acquiring funds from users including transaction processing tokenization and maintaining the integrity of payment state.
- Platform Foundation: Leading the development and maintenance of core payment services such as the Payment Orchestration Layer and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Critical Operational Insight: Building robust telemetry alerting and dashboards to provide real-time operational insights into payment success rates latency and system health for all acquisition channels.
You have:
- Technical and Leadership Experience:
- 8 years of hands-on experience in software development with a focus on building and operating highly scalable distributed systems.
- 2 years of direct experience managing and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to define and drive technical vision and roadmap for mission-critical high-volume services.
- A strong track record of recruiting developing and retaining exceptional engineering talent.
- Excellent communication skills capable of articulating complex technical trade-offs and project status to technical peers product managers and executive leadership.
- Familiarity with various global payment methods (e.g. credit cards ACH digital wallets regional banking transfers) and the complexities of international funds acquisition.
- Experience integrating with or managing external vendor relationships for critical infrastructure services
You will:
- Manage Team Execution & Delivery: Oversee the daily execution of the engineering roadmap ensuring the team efficiently delivers high-quality reliable code on time.
- Drive Operational Excellence & Health: Maintain the 24/7 health and stability of mission-critical payment systems leading on-call rotations incident response and driving post-mortem analysis to continuously improve system reliability and reduce transaction errors.
- Lead Technical Design & Code Review: Provide hands-on guidance on complex technical designs architecture proposals and perform thorough code reviews to maintain high standards for security performance and scalability across the payments stack.
- Ensure Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the primary engineering liaison collaborating closely with Product Management Finance Legal/Compliance and Risk teams to align on requirements prioritize features and ensure regulatory adherence (e.g. PCI DSS).
- Define Architectural Strategy: Set the long-term technical vision and architectural roadmap for the team and underlying services to support billions of secure transactions globally.
- Grow and cultivate an Impactful Team: Attract hire mentor and coach top-tier software engineers fostering a culture of ownership engineering excellence and continuous learning within the Foundation Pod.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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