Engineering Manager

Easy Pay Direct•Austin, TX

3h•$130,000 - $150,000

About The Position

Easy Pay Direct is seeking a player-coach Engineering Manager with senior hands-on software development experience to oversee and manage the EMAP (Electronic Merchant Application Portal) development team. The role combines people leadership, technical oversight, delivery planning, and direct software development. The Engineering Manager translates product requirements into engineering specifications and plans, guides developers, reviews technical work, and contributes production code. The manager also personally owns critical EPD Commerce development, maintenance, and enhancements that support merchant value and platform growth. EPD Commerce brings products, checkout, subscriptions, payments, revenue recovery, and agentic commerce flows into one AI-powered platform. The Engineering Manager contributes to technical direction and implementation tradeoffs in partnership with the Technical Product Manager, who owns what gets built and the product's technical direction. The role coordinates delivery across in-house developers and external development partners, establishes proportionate engineering practices, and communicates risks and decisions to leadership. The position is based in Austin, Texas, with onsite work strongly preferred; remote work may be considered for the right candidate. The role reports to the CEO.

Requirements

Senior hands-on software development experience, including personally designing, building, debugging, and maintaining production software.
Ability to remain hands-on with critical development while managing and technically overseeing the EMAP team.
Experience technically leading and managing engineers, including coaching, performance feedback, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
Ability to translate product requirements into clear engineering specifications, implementation tasks, dependencies, and realistic delivery plans.
Strong software architecture, API integration, database, debugging, testing, and production maintenance skills.
Ability to contribute to EPD Commerce technical direction and own critical implementation work in partnership with the Technical Product Manager.
Security-minded engineering judgment involving sensitive data, authentication, authorization, and reliable integrations.
Clear communication with product, leadership, QA, and engineers, including explaining tradeoffs without relying on technical jargon.
Three to five or more years of software development experience.
Two or more years managing engineers.

Nice To Haves

Experience building and maintaining payments, fintech, B2B SaaS, or merchant onboarding systems.
Familiarity with payment gateways, webhooks, recurring payments, tokenization, and PCI-aware software development.
Experience with commerce platforms, AI agent integrations, or evaluating emerging agentic commerce protocols.
Experience coordinating internal engineers and external development partners while preserving clear ownership.

Responsibilities

Oversee and manage the EMAP development team by setting expectations, providing feedback, coaching engineers, and removing technical blockers.
Translate Technical Product Manager requirements into engineering specifications, task breakdowns, dependencies, and implementation plans.
Collaborate with engineers to develop realistic estimates and delivery plans.
Review code and technical designs, investigate defects, and contribute production code as needed.
Personally own critical EPD Commerce development, uptime, maintenance, and enhancements supporting merchant value and platform growth.
Provide input on EPD Commerce technical direction, architecture, integrations, maintainability, and technical debt in partnership with the Technical Product Manager and existing development teams.
Guide EMAP onboarding and integration work, including connections with EPD Commerce and operational systems.
Establish proportionate testing, code review, release, documentation, and rollback practices with engineering and QA.
Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and improve observability and recovery practices, including owning critical events or service interruptions.
Protect sensitive merchant and payment data through secure development and access controls, working with security and compliance stakeholders.
Use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully, verify generated work, and protect sensitive data.
Coordinate delivery across in-house developers and outside development partners while keeping ownership, standards, and priorities clear.
Communicate technical risks, delivery status, dependencies, and decisions clearly to product and company leadership.