This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager - Payments Integrations based in Spain.

Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for connecting a global payments platform with PSPs, acquirers, and payment gateways worldwide.

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You will own the technical direction and delivery of critical payment integrations that support international expansion.

The role combines people leadership with hands-on technical ownership across architecture, development, deployment, and production operations.

You will help shape scalable, low-latency, highly available backend systems and integration frameworks used across multiple markets.

Working closely with Product, Compliance, and Business teams, you will translate a fast-moving roadmap into reliable technical solutions.

You will also champion AI-assisted engineering practices, embedding modern development and testing tools into the team's daily workflows.

This is an opportunity for an experienced Engineering Manager to build a high-performing team while solving complex infrastructure challenges at global scale.

Accountabilities

- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team, fostering technical excellence, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Hire, mentor, coach, and support engineers at different levels through clear expectations, regular feedback, and structured development.
- Own the full lifecycle of integrations with payment service providers, acquirers, and payment gateways, from technical design through deployment and production monitoring.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture design, code reviews, complex troubleshooting, and technical decision-making.




- Establish and maintain engineering standards covering coding practices, testing, observability, documentation, and maintainability.
- Ensure secure software development practices are embedded across the team, including OWASP principles, data privacy, and relevant compliance requirements.
- Guide architectural decisions for low-latency, highly available backend systems and microservice-based architectures.
- Drive the evolution of APIs and integration frameworks that can scale across countries, payment methods, and providers.
- Champion an AI-first engineering culture by establishing effective practices for AI-assisted development, code generation, and automated testing.
- Partner closely with Product, Compliance, Business, and other stakeholders to deliver against a rapidly evolving roadmap.
- Balance technical priorities, business requirements, team capacity, and delivery timelines in a fast-moving environment.
- Promote agile ways of working that are practical, adaptable, and effective for the team.
- Monitor production performance and help ensure the reliability, scalability, security, and quality of payment integrations.

Requirements
- Proven experience managing and growing engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
- Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to make architectural decisions and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Significant hands-on backend engineering experience,



with strong proficiency in Golang or a comparable programming language.
- 8+ years of hands-on production experience with Go (Golang)is required.
- Strong understanding of microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and modern integration patterns.
- Experience working with SQL and relational databases.
- Solid knowledge of secure software development practices and OWASP principles.
- Experience establishing or championing AI-first engineering practices, including AI-assisted coding, automated testing, and LLM-powered code generation using tools such as Claude Code or similar.
- Experience working in agile engineering environments and adapting processes based on team needs and practical outcomes.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Full professional proficiency in written and spoken English.
- Experience in the payments industry or working with PSP integrations is an advantage.
- Hands-on experience with cloud and DevOps technologies such as AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is preferred.
- Strong ownership mindset, problem-solving ability, and enthusiasm for building reliable technology and high-performing teams.

Benefits
- Competitive compensation.
- Fully remote work with the flexibility to work from anywhere in Europe.
- One-time home-office allowance to help create a comfortable and effective workspace.
- Company-provided work equipment.
- Stock options.
- Health plan available wherever you are.
- Versátil days off.
- Language courses supporting professional and personal development.
- Professional development and skills-building courses.
- Opportunities to work on global payment infrastructure and complex technical challenges. xugodme
- International, collaborative environment with exposure to cross-functional product, business, and compliance teams.

📌 Engineering Manager - Payments Integrations (España)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 España