Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Visa Money Movement Solutions / CurrencyCloud as an Engineering Manager leading a key collections expansion team. You will play a lead role in integrating with banks and delivering processing capabilities for instant 24/7 payments. The role involves managing a team of 4+ software engineers, overseeing technical delivery and quality, and managing contract teams. You will provide technical guidance, contribute to architecture development, and work with QA engineers. This is a remote position requiring a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, and 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead. The ideal candidate is passionate about finance and technology, a self-starter, and possesses strong stakeholder management skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical related field or relevant commercial experience
• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager or a Tech Lead with the willingness and capability to step into an EM role
• Experience working with agile process and principles
• Strong SQL knowledge, ability to understand and write complex queries
• Working knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL
• Proven delivery of well-tested, scalable, fault-tolerant and performant solutions
• Have been a driving force not only behind change in your previous roles but also in working in a distributed environment
• Having worked in a collaborative environment where you are comfortable reviewing code of your peers

Responsibilities

• Lead a key collections expansion team at Visa Money Movement Solutions / CurrencyCloud
• Play a lead role integrating with banks and delivering processing capability to enable our customers to make instant 24/7 payments into their accounts
• Lead a team of 4+ software engineers and manage the technical delivery and quality of your teams work
• Manage contract teams as required to deliver initiatives
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members
• Contribute to building new patterns and architecture using an event-driven microservice architecture
• Influence wider company architecture as we grow our technical capability and scale inline with the business
• Work alongside smart QA engineers, who build and maintain a vast collection of automated testing scenarios

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building in software for financial domain
• Experience with Java microservices (springboot a bonus)
• Experience designing event based and streaming solutions using Kafka
• Experience building applications that run in Kubernetes
• Working in a DevOps environment, or passion and willingness to work in this way
• A pragmatic approach to solutions and delivery of technical projects
• Genuinely interested in intersection of finance domain and technology. Desire to become a subject matter expert
• A self-starter who takes accountability for getting things done
• Passionate about growing others while growing yourself. An interest for continuous improvement and helping engineers to understand the big picture
• Pragmatism in decision making and ability to get buy-in for ideas and getting them done
• Top-notch stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence colleagues in small, cross-functional scrum teams
• Comfortable working with external providers and senior internal stakeholders
• Exceptional structure and attention to detail
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work
• Great written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

This is a remote position