Senior Engineering Manager, Payments - PayIt
Phoenix, AZ
About the Job
PayIt is a fast-growing GovTech company on a mission to modernize how residents interact and transact with government, improving the customer experience and helping our client agencies more efficiently and effectively achieve their missions. Our easy-to-implement platform consolidates government services and payments into one connected experience and enables our clients to drive resident trust, collect revenue quickly, and redeploy their staff to more important challenges. This innovative approach to government service delivery has garnered significant recognition in both the public and private sectors, including our inclusion in the GovTech 100 every year since 2017. PayIt solutions cover services including hunting and fishing licensing, DMV, courts, property tax, utilities, tolling, and more.
Our culture welcomes people who exhibit what we call "PayIt DNA": High integrity, drive, grit, high aptitude, and team orientation. We are collaborative and passionate about the work we do to improve the lives of our government clients and the end users they serve. We have ambitious scaling goals, and we look for team members who are ready to roll up their sleeves, solve problems, and find new opportunities to win with our clients. And we have a lot of fun together.
About This Role:
We are seeking a Senior Manager, Payments Engineering to join our Engineering team. The Payments Engineering team plays a crucial role in designing, building, and maintaining our payments processing infrastructure and related financial systems. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of talented engineers, drive technical initiatives, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver and enhance our payment product offering and ensure smooth and secure payment transactions for our state and local government clients and their citizens.
This role is ideally based out of our Kansas City office; however, highly qualified remote candidates in AR, AZ, FL, GA, IA, IL, KS, MI, MO, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI will also be considered.
This role will play an integral part in empowering our government organizations and agencies to streamline their operations, enhance citizen services, and drive digital transformation and will be responsible for:
What You'll Be Doing (Job Responsibilities):
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of platform engineers to achieve their full potential and deliver high-quality results. Provide technical guidance and support to team members, helping them solve complex problems and overcome challenges.
- Oversee architectural decisions by designing, developing, and deploying robust, scalable, and secure payment processing systems and products that comply with industry standards, government regulations, and best practices.
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of payment functionalities into our SaaS platform and develop APIs and SDKs to facilitate payment processing across various government applications.
- Collaborate with VP, Information Security, and other stakeholders to mitigate potential security risks related to payment processing, safeguarding sensitive financial data, and ensuring compliance with PCI DSS, SOC2, ISO-1800 and other relevant security standards.
- Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, psychological safety, and operational excellence within the Payments teams.
- Maintain engineering best practices, coding standards, and processes to ensure high-quality code and efficient development workflows.
- Collaborative partner with the Director of Payments Products, architects, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical payments roadmap.
What You'll Need to Have (Minimum Requirements):
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a managerial capacity.
- Strong technical background in payments engineering, including proficiency with programming languages such as Java or other relevant frameworks and tools.
- Knowledge of payment gateway integrations, payment processing protocols, and financial transaction security.
- Strong understanding of Card Data Processing, PCI DSS, NACHA, and other relevant payment industry standards.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical payments concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire team members to achieve their goals.
- Experience working in agile development environments and familiarity with agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
Bonus Points For:
- Experience working with state and local government agencies
- Experience working for a PayFac, payment processing organization, or payments gateway.
Why Work For Us:
- Our mission matters. Your work will make life better for our government agency clients and the millions of residents they serve.
- You'll do some of the best work of your career here. We tackle complex challenges that are interesting to solve, and you'll grow a ton working at PayIt
- People are our most important resource. Everyone has a voice. Collaboration is our default setting. And we have fun together.
- We #payitforward with our corporate volunteer program, serving the communities where we work and live.
- Competitive salaries, excellent benefits, flexible working arrangements, and all the resources you will need to do your best work.
What We Care About:
We hire high aptitude, high integrity people who are great communicators and want to be part of a growing team.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
PayIt is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law.
PayIt is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an email to the People Operations Team and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
NOTE: U.S. Citizens and all those authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to provide sponsorship in the United States at this time. PayIt participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here. Canadian Citizens and those authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship are also encouraged to apply.
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Within the parameters of this position, ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and exercise due care of, company, client, and citizen data that is stored, processed, and transmitted by and for PayIt, as outlined in PayIt's Business Code of Conduct and Information Security Policies.