Engineering Manager- Payments

OpenFX, Bengaluru +1

What you will do

Key Responsibilities

This is a new pod. You will stand it up, define its charter, and own three things end to end:

Corridor expansion
Own the playbook for launching new payment corridors — EUR, MXN, COP, AED and beyond — from partner integration through pilot to general availability.
Turn corridor launches from bespoke projects into a repeatable capability: standardized partner integration patterns, corridor configuration over code where possible, and a clear definition of "launch-ready" covering rails, cut-offs, FX, fees, returns, and reconciliation.
Own the reliability of live corridors: settlement timeliness, failure handling, partner degradation and failover behavior, and the runbooks that keep money moving when a partner does not.
License operationalization (EU and beyond)
Translate our EU regulatory obligations into running systems: safeguarding of customer funds (segregation, sweep flows, coverage reconciliation, and the controls around them) and transaction monitoring (rules, alerting, case handoff to compliance).

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Engineering Manager- Payments

OpenFX, Bengaluru +1

What you will do

Key Responsibilities

This is a new pod. You will stand it up, define its charter, and own three things end to end:

Corridor expansion
Own the playbook for launching new payment corridors — EUR, MXN, COP, AED and beyond — from partner integration through pilot to general availability.
Turn corridor launches from bespoke projects into a repeatable capability: standardized partner integration patterns, corridor configuration over code where possible, and a clear definition of "launch-ready" covering rails, cut-offs, FX, fees, returns, and reconciliation.
Own the reliability of live corridors: settlement timeliness, failure handling, partner degradation and failover behavior, and the runbooks that keep money moving when a partner does not.
License operationalization (EU and beyond)
Translate our EU regulatory obligations into running systems: safeguarding of customer funds (segregation, sweep flows, coverage reconciliation, and the controls around them) and transaction monitoring (rules, alerting, case handoff to compliance).

What you need

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 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 built or operated payment systems in production: payment orchestration, ledgers, settlement, or reconciliation, with a working grasp of failure modes on the money path — duplicates, partial failures, cut-off misses, stuck settlements.
Has integrated banking, payment, or FX partners and lived through the messy reality: sandbox-vs-production drift, certificate and credential churn, partner outages, and degraded-mode operation.
Deep on distributed systems correctness where money is involved: idempotency, exactly-once effects, concurrency, and reconciliation as a first-class design concern.
Has worked directly with compliance, risk, or regulators and can negotiate scope rather than simply absorb requirements.
Has run a high-risk production migration or cutover — a partner switch, a ledger migration, a corridor cutover — with a rollback plan that was genuinely exercised.
Owns on-call and incident command personally, not by delegation.
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. Standing up a new pod means creating clarity, not waiting for it.

What helps you stand out

Cross-border payments: corridor launches, FX, correspondent or local rails, SWIFT/SEPA/local clearing schemes in any of our target markets (EU, LATAM, Middle East, APAC).
Regulated EU/US fintech experience: EMI/PI or MiCAR-style obligations, safeguarding of customer funds, or transaction monitoring systems built to withstand audit.
Multi-partner orchestration: routing across redundant partners, partner health scoring, failover on the money path.
Product sensibility: has shipped customer-facing payments features across both API and UI, and can partner tightly with a PM on sequencing.
Stablecoin or digital-asset settlement rails alongside fiat.

Engineering Manager- Payments

What you will do

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Engineering Manager- Payments

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