Engineering manager (AI)

Belfast, Northern Ireland🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $90,000–$90,000🗓 2026-06-02 → 2026-08-07

Core

Lead a team of 14-20 software engineers in a payments technology company undergoing AI-driven transformation, focusing on deployment, DevOps, and requirements.

Role type

Engineering Manager (Payments Technology)

Builds

Unified payments platform for merchants (SMEs to enterprise) across North America and Europe

Domain

Fintech / Payments Infrastructure

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Team leadership, hiring and retention, agile/lean delivery frameworks, CI/CD, automated testing, cross-functional collaboration, AI tooling integration, deployment pipeline optimization, career coaching

Preferred skills

Player-coach mindset, system-level engineering approach, impact-driven leadership

Technologies

Java, .NET, Golang

Responsibilities

Lead, hire, mentor, and retain a team of 14 to 20 software engineers; Drive engineering best practices including CI/CD and automated testing; Collaborate cross-functionally with product, architecture, and DevOps; Apply an AI-first mindset to accelerate velocity; Eliminate blockers and improve deployment pipelines; Coach engineers on career progression; Own delivery commitments and align with business objectives

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About Ocho

Our client is a next generation payments technology company building the infrastructure that powers a merchant first ecosystem. They are a curious, driven and pragmatic team who believe in outcomes over outputs - focused, empowered engineers working on real problems for real merchants. Their platform is built on Java and the Spring framework, with Hibernate and Oracle for persistence, JAX-RS for REST APIs and JMS for asynchronous processing. It is a large, long-lived and actively modernised codebase, and the environment is deliberately designed to let engineers focus on technical challenges ra