Senior Engineering Manager

Why Verifone

For more than 40 years Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone has one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and is one of the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide.

Verifone has a diverse dynamic and fast paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in the fact that we work with leading retailers merchants banks and third party partners to invent and deliver innovative payments solution around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services and are obsessed with customer happiness. Across the globe Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience innovation and an ambitious spirit. Whether its developing the next platform of secure payment systems or searching for new ways to bring electronic payments to new markets the team at Verifone is dedicated to the success of our customers partners and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives each one of our employees for personal and professional success.

Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located. Currentlywe do allow a hybrid work schedule but we regularly revisit our attendance policy.

About The Role

We are seeking a Londonbased Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow the engineering team responsible for building and operating backend services supporting payment checkout and transactional workflows. You will partner closely with Product Frontend Platform and Infrastructure teams to set technical direction uphold engineering excellence and deliver secure scalable systems in highthroughput environments.

This role sits at the core of Verifones payments and checkout platform where engineering leadership directly impacts secure highvolume transactions used globally. Youll be accountable for the health delivery and culture of a team building productioncritical systems that must perform reliably under realworld load evolving payment methods and strict security requirements.

Required Skills and Experience

Leadership & People Management

• Proven experience managing and mentoring software engineering teams
• Track record of hiring developing and retaining engineering talent
• Ability to set clear goals run effective performance cycles and foster a culture of accountability and growth
• Experience facilitating crossfunctional collaboration across Product Design Platform and Infrastructure stakeholders
• Strong communicator able to translate technical complexity for nontechnical audiences

Technical Depth

• Solid handson background in backend engineering sufficient to credibly guide technical decisions conduct design reviews and support engineers daytoday
• Familiarity with / TypeScript backend systems and modern backend frameworks (e.g. Express Fastify or NestJS)
• Grounding in Clean Architecture DomainDriven Design (DDD) and modular system design
• Understanding of RESTful API design database modeling (MongoDB) and caching strategies (Redis)
• Comfort discussing cloud infrastructure (AWS) CI/CD pipelines Docker and Git workflows

Delivery & Process

• Experience owning endtoend delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams
• Ability to balance speed of delivery with longterm code quality reliability and maintainability
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and the ability to adapt process to team needs
• Experience managing roadmaps and working with Product to scope prioritize and sequence engineering work

Engineering Culture & Quality

• Passion for building highquality testable and welldocumented systems
• Champions automated testing code review practices and engineering best practices
• Datadriven approach to reliability comfortable with monitoring incident response and blameless postmortems

Desirable Skills and Experience

Payments & Security Domain

• Experience leading teams in fintech payments or ecommerce environments
• Familiarity with payment provider integrations (e.g. Stripe PayPal Klarna) and flows such as authorization capture refund and 3D Secure
• Awareness of PCIDSS requirements and security best practices in highcompliance environments
• Understanding of fraudrelated considerations and risk in transactional systems

Production Engineering

• Experience overseeing highavailability faulttolerant systems in production
• Exposure to performance optimization APM tooling (e.g. AppDynamics) and SLA management
• Familiarity with messaging systems such as Kafka RabbitMQ or Redis Pub/Sub

Platform & Architecture Exposure

• Experience working alongside frontend frameworks such as Angular or React
• Familiarity with serverside rendering iframebased widget embedding and internationalization (i18n) systems
• Exposure to eventdriven or microservices architectures at scale

Our Commitment

Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.