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Engineering Manager

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🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Posted on Paymentology's careers page, not through a job board

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Paymentology

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

🏦 Banking

💰 Seed on 2016-02

Fintech • SaaS • Banking

Paymentology is a payments technology company that provides an issuing and processing platform (Lume) enabling banks, fintechs, digital banks, telcos, remittance providers, governments and other organisations to launch, manage and scale card programmes. The platform supports issuing debit, prepaid, credit, hybrid, virtual, numberless cards, multi-currency and crypto/stablecoin-linked cards, tokenization, BIN sponsoring, card processing, fraud control and 3DS. Paymentology positions itself as a partner for fintechs, neobanks, banks, telcos, remitters, lenders, travel and crypto players, emphasizing real-time data, global multi-currency capabilities, and programme management, plus client portal and data intelligence.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team, typically consisting of 8–12 engineers • Coach, mentor and provide continuous feedback to support career growth • Create development plans and foster a psychologically safe, inclusive, high-trust environment • Manage performance, recognise contributions and address challenges early • Support hiring, onboarding and team growth • Own delivery of team commitments and ensure predictable, high-quality execution • Partner with Product to shape roadmaps, scope work and align priorities • Maintain delivery plans and proactively manage risks and dependencies • Remove blockers and ensure collaboration between teams • Drive operational excellence, incident response and continuous improvement • Ensure visibility of progress, metrics and outcomes across stakeholders • Provide technical guidance on mission-critical, high-volume transaction systems • Contribute to scalable, reliable and maintainable architecture decisions • Drive engineering best practices across testing, observability, CI/CD, AI usage, code quality and security • Support engineers in resolving complex technical challenges • Monitor system health, operational patterns and technical risks • Maintain team outcomes, people growth, delivery effectiveness, and system reliability and availability

🎯 Requirements

• At least three years’ experience managing engineering teams • Examples of navigating difficult stakeholder situations and maintaining alignment across functions • Experience leading high-performing engineering teams and delivering outcomes • Strong technical background, typically equivalent to a senior engineering level or above • Experience leading mission-critical, high-volume transaction systems • Experience balancing technical debt and reliability risks and planning safe maintenance and release cycles • Experience in agile delivery, planning and continuous improvement practices • Comfortable operating in distributed, cross-functional environments • Clear, thoughtful communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders • Strong foundation in engineering best practices, including testing, observability, CI/CD, AI usage, code quality and security • Able to work approximately +/- 2 hours CET • Able to issue invoices for fees as an independent contractor • Must be able to pass credit, education verification, sanction and enforcement screening, employment verification, criminal and ID checks • Must be legally authorised to work in the current country of residence without visa sponsorship or additional work authorisation

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first, globally distributed engineering organisation • Clear and structured career framework • Opportunity to work on a global, high-scale payments platform with real-world impact • Opportunity to lead teams solving complex, meaningful problems in fintech • Opportunity to shape engineering culture, process and ways of working at scale • Career growth opportunities • Diverse and inclusive workplace

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