**Your mission**

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Payments Tribe, a critical part of our platform powering the payment experience across channels. You will report to the Head of Engineering, and manage 9 engineers across 2 squads (Core, Pay).

You will play a key role in enhancing our platform and raising the bar for the service provided to our customers, working across payment APIs, processing, reconciliation, and core banking systems.

This role combines people management, technical leadership, and stakeholder coordination for a Tribe that is central to both current and future projects for Lemonway. You will drive the delivery of our next-generation card payment stack for acquiring and issuing, as well as our cash management platform.

**Your responsibilities**

**People management**

* Create the conditions for the squads to operate effectively and deliver consistently

* Hire, develop and retain high-performing engineers in partnership with HR

* Foster a culture of continuous improvement in development practices, processes and knowledge sharing

**Technical leadership**

* Lead the squads' delivery across short- and long-term initiatives by setting clear goals, and execution paths in ambiguous contexts

* Own the scope end-to-end ensuring solutions deliver meaningful value to customers and the business

* Guide technical decisions to ensure high standards of reliability, quality, and security across systems

* Drive cross-team initiatives to continuously raise the bar of our engineering standards

**Stakeholder coordination**

* Partner with Product to define and drive a clear, realistic roadmap with strong alignment on delivery and quality

* Frame and communicate trade-offs between feature delivery, reliability, support, and technical debt

* Act as the main point of contact for stakeholders across engineering, product, and business teams

* Own the technical relationship with our third-party providers including integrations, performance, and escalations