Engineering Manager, Payments Platform

Flywire • Boston, MA

72d

About The Position

We, at Flywire, are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Platform Engineering Team. Your primary responsibility will be to lead a team of developers and coordinate with other disciplines like QA, SRE, Product and Technical Writers. The Platform team is responsible for Flywire’s inbound payments and the handling of funds. We work to ensure a secure, efficient, and transparent experience for both the sender and receiver of funds. The team is core for Flywire’s business, providing best in class payor experiences, and processing payments in the fastest, most secure and most cost-effective way, enabling vertical solution teams to be able to grow our business and provide an exceptional experience for our clients. Engineering Managers in Flywire have a good technical background so they are able to keep the technical vision and development practices moving on the right path. They can directly contribute from their experience, remove blockers, and reduce risk to ensure successful team deliveries. They also lead development teams and support their developers to grow both personally and technically.

Requirements

• Experience in people management, leading and growing a development team of high-performing individuals.
• Good project management skills and successful completion of projects.
• Strong software engineering skills.
• A commitment and drive for high quality, technical excellence and results in accordance with established policies.
• Knowledge about how to successfully work through difficult situations.
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams, and be able to think rigorously and make hard decisions and tradeoffs.
• Soft skills to manage the development of your team members.
• Ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
• Ability to provide technical guidance to the team.
• Expertise detecting talent and fostering motivation and engagement amongst the team.
• Guided by established team’s operational goals and objectives.
• Have foresight and confidence to determine the best approach to manage daily operations.
• Capacity to lead a cross functional project.

Responsibilities

• Support a high-visibility team with significant impact on the company vision and its product.
• Work with a highly motivated independent team of developers, enabling them to produce high quality software and overcome product challenges along the way.
• Work closely with SRE, QA, and Product teams to improve and maintain the core payments Platform in Flywire.
• Manage the career progression for the developers of the team and follow their development on a weekly basis.
• Actively participate in the hiring activities for the Platform team.
• Work closely with other Engineering Managers to foster collaboration between different areas and teams, aligning product initiatives with the company's technical strategy.
• Collaborate actively with other working groups in the company to drive engineering-wide initiatives, while utilizing your years of technical experience.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including Restricted Stock Units
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program
• Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
• Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness) with Global FlyMates
• Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in and Digital Disconnect Days!
• Great Talent & Development Programs

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees