Engineering Manager- Application Platform

the team: close open roles, grow your Tech Lead, run 30-60-90 ramps, keep on-call sustainable, and act on performance early. What We Are Looking For Must-haves: EM-level scope: 2 or more years managing a full team of 5 or more, with a Tech Lead or senior IC reporting in, on top of a strong backend or infrastructure IC track record. Still writes code. You can design an API, model a schema, and produce idiomatic, runnable, tested code. Design fluency without hands-on ability is not enough at this level. Has owned a shared platform, gateway, or authentication system with internal teams as customers. Deep on API design, authentication, and distributed systems failure modes: blast radius, concurrency, idempotency. Has run a high-risk production migration or cutover with a rollback plan that was genuinely exercised. Owns on-call and incident command personally, not by delegation. Has worked directly with security or compliance and can negotiate scope rather than simply absorb

requirements. Demonstrated hiring and performance management, including at least one underperformance case you saw through. High agency: operates with low oversight on ambiguous problems, in a demanding environment. What helps you stand out: Fintech, payments, or another regulated environment with audit and access-control obligations. API gateway in production: custom plugins, mTLS, OAuth2, control plane topology decisions. Strong customer authentication, PSD2-style

requirements, or step-up authentication. API governance at scale: standards enforcement, versioning, identifier design, deprecation. Observability and audit logging platforms, and DORA or similar delivery metrics. Improving deployment and branch discipline across teams you do not manage. What Success Looks Like Platform reliability: Gateway, auth, and admin changes ship without customer-visible incidents, and every risky change has a tested rollback. Internal adoption: Product teams follow platform standards because they are clear and useful, and platform is not routed around. Security throughput: Security-dependent work lands on schedule; review is scoped and time-bound rather than open-ended. Operational maturity: Incidents are detected by monitoring, reported consistently, and produce changes that stick. Team strength: Fully staffed and ramped, your Tech Lead is growing, on-call is sustainable, weak performance is addressed. Talent magnetism: You bring strong engineers with you and raise the bar of every loop you sit on. Why This Role Impact: The systems you own sit in front of every transaction. Getting them right is the difference between shipping weekly and shipping carefully once a quarter. Ownership: Gateway, authentication, standards, and operational maturity are yours to set for the whole engineering organisation. Scope: You define how platform and product teams work together, and how security review fits into delivery. Learning: Hard problems at the intersection of correctness, security, and scale in cross-border payments. Access: Direct partnership with the platform PM, InfoSec leadership, and senior engineering leadership. What We Offer Competitive salary and

benefits package. Equity in a rapidly growing company. Opportunity to work in a fast-paced startup at the forefront of fintech innovation. Opportunity to make a significant impact on global financial infrastructure. Collaborative work culture with emphasis on personal and professional growth. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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