Engineering Manager, Payments Platform

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Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.

What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you! 

Who we are: 
Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in higher education. We’ve since scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world. 

Today we support more than 4,800 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies.

With over 1,200 global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.
 

The Opportunity:

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.

In This Work, You Will:

• 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.
   

We are looking for:

• 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.

Main Technologies We Use:

• Languages: Ruby & Java
• React, modern Javascript & Typescript
• AWS: EC2, ECS (Fargate), Lambda, Cloudwatch, SQS, Kinesis, S3
• MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, MongoDB
• Docker, Gitlab (CI/CD), Sentry, Sumologic, New Relic

Our Culture:

• We are a global company, our engineering team is distributed across 3 continents and 4 different countries. Going to the office is optional, we are totally open to remote work. We encourage people to do whatever is best for their life.
• Our engineering practice is shaped around some of the concepts of Agile, Lean, and Extreme Programming. Each team has a high level of autonomy to organize themselves in the way they consider most appropriate to execute their mission.
• We actively engage in knowledge sharing by hosting internal cross-discipline events.
• We encourage people to contribute to open source projects whenever possible.
• We contribute to our local communities by hosting different events, Meetups, etc.
   

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation, including Restricted Stock Units 
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program 
• Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes, learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
• Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
• Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness) with Global FlyMates 
• Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact
• Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in and Digital Disconnect Days!
• Great Talent & Development Programs

Submit today and get started!

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. With over 30 nationalities across 12 different offices, and diversity and inclusion at the core of our people agenda, we believe our FlyMates are our greatest asset, and we’re excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer.