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Experienced Engineering Manager, Payments

New York City OfficeFull-time2026-11-05 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead the Payments engineering organization to build infrastructure for account verification, payment risk scoring, and money movement across ACH, RTP, and FedNow rails.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager (Payments Infrastructure)

Builds

Verification infrastructure, Signal risk platform with ML/data pipelines, money movement rails, and customer-facing APIs/dashboards

Domain

Fintech / Payments / Financial Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Engineering management (20+ team), technical strategy, high-reliability transactional systems, hiring leadership, cross-functional partnership

Preferred skills

Bank payments experience (ACH/RTP/FedNow), ML-powered risk/fraud products, AI transformation leadership

Technologies

ACH, RTP, FedNow, ML, Data pipelines

Responsibilities

Set engineering strategy balancing product delivery and foundational investment; manage three engineering managers; own technical direction for payments platform; hold reliability bar for financial systems; drive recruiting and hiring; partner cross-functionally with product, data science, and operations

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management layer