Senior Engineering Manager
Auckland - New Zealand
Job Summary
Every day Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit debit prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies more than 1300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.
ABOUT GLOBAL PAYMENTS
Whether youre a merchant accepting payments a bank issuing cards or a developer embedding payment technology if it has anything to do with commercewerealready on it!Thats why 5m customers and 7k software partners around the world rely onGlobal Paymentsto handle more than 73b transactions every year.
Through local expertise and global scale at Global Payments we deliver market-leading technology solutions through five regional sub-brands Eway Ezidebit Sentral Pigeonhole Software andStorman.
These brands are anchored by Global Payments a Fortune 500 brand and commerce leader powering millions of companies around the world from ambitious startups to enterprise giants.
We make a positive impact on our customers and communities through our values of Think like a client Act like an owner Win as one team.
Underpinning our values is our commitment to Diversity Equity and Inclusion woven into our cultural DNA through a multi-year Oceania program focused on two core pillars of action -Reconciliation and Gender Equity.
Stormanis a leading provider of self storage management software. Established over 30 years ago in New Zealand and now servicing customers across the globe - Storman offers powerful cloud based tools to streamline operations manage customers and process payments-delivering an all-in-one solution that drives efficiency and business growth. Storman helps storage businesses run smarter every day by reducing admin and allowing Storage facility operators to manage their facilities anywhere anytime - on any device.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Were seeking aSenior Engineering Managerto lead our Storman development team modernise our platform and drive our next phase of growth with a strong customer and commercial focus.
This is a unique opportunity for aplayer-coach leaderwho enjoys leading people shaping strategy and staying close enough to the technology to solve meaningful challenges while contributing to customer outcomes.
What Youll Be Doing
Leadership & Strategy
- Set clear technical direction and inspire the engineering team
- Shape engineering strategy aligned to product and business goals
- Champion modern tools practices and ways of working
- Contribute to roadmap planning and platform evolution
Technical & Delivery
- Lead development of Stormans SaaS web platform
- Stay hands-on with architecture key initiatives and problem-solving
- Ensure systems are scalable secure and maintainable
- Drive engineering standards code quality and documentation
- Guide best practices across AWS APIs and databases
People Leadership
- Mentor coach and grow a high-performing team
- Lead Agile rituals and delivery cycles
- Balance strategic leadership with hands-on contribution
- Foster a strong accountable engineering culture
Stakeholder & Strategic Customer Engagement
- Act as a senior technical advisor supportingstrategic customer engagements
- Contribute to customer conversations that shape solutions and influence product direction
- Translate technical concepts into clearbusiness value and customer outcomes
- Partner with Product and Customer teams to proactively supportcustomer success and key initiatives
- Provide leadership during complex discussions workshops and escalations
SALARY
The salary range for this role is $
ABOUT YOU
Youre a proven engineering leader who balanceshands-on technical depth with strong leadership capability. You operate effectively in Agile environments collaborate across Product and Infrastructure and contribute confidently to strategic customer conversations.
You bring a strongcustomer and commercial mindset with the ability to deliver outcomes that align technical excellence with real business value. Experience supporting transformation or migration initiatives will be highly valuable as we continue our transition to AWS.
You will also bring:
- Proven experience leading engineering teams
- Background in SaaS / product-led environments
- 5 years with Laravel or similar PHP frameworks
- Strong AWS / cloud expertise
- Solid MySQL and SQL optimisation skills
- Experience with APIs and modern frontend frameworks (React or Vue)
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to contribute effectively tostrategic customer discussions
Nice to Have
- Experience with migrations or re-platforming initiatives
- CI/CD DevOps and Infrastructure as Code
- Multi-tenant SaaS architecture
- Exposure to payments or financial integrations
WHY THIS ROLE
- Lead an established team of 8 engineers
- Drive a major cloud transformation to AWS
- Influence product direction and technical strategy
- Work closely with Product Infrastructure and Security leaders
- Contribute to high-impactstrategic customer initiatives
- Join a respected SaaS product with a loyal customer base
- Backed by the scale and stability of Global Payments
OUR BENEFITS
Join a leading global technology brand that offers benefits youll actually value including:
- Flexible work arrangements that support your unique needs.
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for either parent as well as two weeks paid secondary carers leave.
- Women in Digital membership granting you access to a host of member industry events and resources.
- Additional birthday community giving wellness and study leave.
- Our free and confidential Employee Assistance Program counselling service and wellbeing resources.
- A jam-packed calendar of cultural celebrations and social activities.
- Global career and professional development opportunities.
- Salary sacrifice and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
READY TO APPLY
Want to join a team that places the needs of our people clients and community at the heart of everything they doby submitting your CV.
All final applicantsfor this positionwill be asked to consent to a criminal history check. Each application will be considered on its merits.
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