Engineering Lead, PayIn

. Lead the PayIn engineering team responsible for payment acceptance and post-payment operations .

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the PayIn engineering team responsible for payment acceptance and post-payment operations
Hire, develop, and retain engineers who own systems end to end
Set clear expectations, provide direct feedback, and grow a distributed team
Partner with PayIn Product to turn the roadmap into predictable commitments
Prioritize work, sequence delivery, and make tradeoffs explicit
Scale payment APIs, recurring billing, invoices, payment links, hosted pages, virtual terminal, embedded checkout, and digital wallets
Ensure batching, funding, transfers, same-day ACH, and reconciliation run reliably and on time
Maintain dependable card processor, ACH, and check-processing integrations and production-like sandboxes
Build a culture of fast, safe, low-risk releases for money-moving systems
Define SLOs for payment success, latency, and funding timeliness
Build observability, architecture documentation, runbooks, and resilient on-call practices
Partner with AI and Risk Engineering on real-time risk scoring, anomaly detection, dispute handling, and exception-management workflows
Lead a team using AI to build faster and better

What you’ll need

10+ years building and operating production backend systems, including 3+ years leading engineering teams responsible for business-critical services
Payments experience is required, including payment acceptance, gateways, acquiring, or funding for card, ACH, or both, including post-authorization payment handling
Experience scaling critical teams and systems through significant growth in volume, partners, and complexity
Experience setting expectations, building accountability, and making hiring, performance, and team-structure decisions
Experience establishing metrics, SLOs, incident practices, and operating rhythms
Ability to make technical decisions balancing speed, scale, and technical debt
Deep hands-on backend engineering experience in a modern language
Understanding of distributed systems, relational databases, background processing, and cloud services
Experience designing and evolving RESTful and event-driven APIs, including versioning, backward compatibility, idempotency, and webhooks
Clear communication and ability to influence partners, product managers, and salespeople
Legal authorization to work in the United States
Nice-to-have: card processor/acquirer integrations, card-present systems, check processing, ACH/NACHA, surcharging, PCI DSS, tokenization, distributed-team leadership, or vertical SaaS/embedded payments experience

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