Engineering Manager - Backend

Why Verifone For more than 40 years Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone has one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and is one of the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide. Verifone has a diverse, dynamic and fast paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in the fact that we work with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third-party partners to invent and deliver innovative payments solution around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services and are obsessed with customer happiness. Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it's developing the next platform of secure payment systems or searching for new ways to bring electronic payments to new markets, the team at Verifone is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives each one of our employees for personal and professional success. Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located. Currently, we do allow a hybrid work schedule but we regularly revisit our attendance policy. About The Role We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead and grow the Global Payment Platform engineering organization, responsible for building and operating backend services that support payments, checkout, and transactional workflows. You will partner closely with Product, Frontend, Platform, and Infrastructure teams to set technical direction, uphold engineering excellence, and deliver secure, scalable systems in high‑throughput environments. This role sits at the core of Verifone's payment and checkout platform, where engineering leadership directly impacts secure, high‑volume transactions used globally. As a hands‑on director, you will set technical direction while staying close to the code. You will also be accountable for the health, delivery, and culture of multiple teams building production‑critical systems that must perform reliably under real‑world load, evolving payment methods, and strict security requirements. Required Skills and Experience  Leadership & People Management * Proven experience leading multiple software engineering teams, including managing and mentoring engineering managers and tech leads * Strong track record of building, scaling, and retaining high-performing engineering organizations * Ability to set organization-level goals and operating cadence, run effective performance and calibration cycles, and foster a culture of accountability and growth * Experience facilitating cross-functional collaboration across Product, Design, Platform, and Infrastructure stakeholders * Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical complexity for non-technical audiences Technical Depth * Strong, current hands-on background in backend engineering — able to read and review code, drive architecture and design reviews, and contribute alongside engineers when needed * Deep, hands-on engineer who works fluently with agentic AI tools, using them to accelerate design, coding, and reviews while maintaining high standards of quality and security * Strong foundation in Java and Spring Boot, along with Node.js and TypeScript — both are essential for our backend and e-commerce systems * Solid grounding in Clean Architecture, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and modular system design * Strong understanding of RESTful API design, database modeling (MongoDB), and caching strategies (Redis) * Comfort discussing cloud infrastructure (AWS), CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Git workflows Delivery & Process * Experience owning end-to-end delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams * Ability to balance speed of delivery with long-term code quality, reliability, and maintainability * Familiarity with agile methodologies and the ability to adapt processes to team needs * Experience managing roadmaps and working with Product to scope, prioritize, and sequence engineering work Engineering Culture & Quality * Passion for building high-quality, testable, and well-documented systems * Champion of automated testing, code review practices, and engineering best practices * Data-driven approach to reliability, with comfort in monitoring, incident response, and blameless post-mortems Desirable Skills and Experience Payments & Security Domain * Experience leading teams in fintech, payments, or e-commerce environments * Familiarity with payment provider integrations (e.g., Stripe, PayPal, Klarna) and workflows such as authorization, capture, refunds, and 3D Secure * Awareness of PCI-DSS requirements and security best practices in high-compliance environments * Understanding of fraud considerations and risk in transactional systems Production Engineering * Experience managing high-availability, fault-tolerant systems in production * Exposure to performance optimization, APM tools (e.g., AppDynamics), and SLA management * Familiarity with messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Redis Pub/Sub Platform & Architecture Exposure * Experience working alongside frontend frameworks such as Angular or React * Familiarity with server-side rendering, iframe-based widget embedding, and internationalization (i18n) systems * Exposure to event-driven or microservices architectures at scale Our Commitment Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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