This hands-on leadership role combines technical depth, strategic vision, and strong people management skills to drive engineering excellence and product innovation.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead and manage a global engineering team developing a payment software solution, including embedded systems. Payment is a big ++ to have, as well as any experience with card readers, payment terminals, POS systems, and contactless payment integrations.
• Own the end-to-end engineering lifecycle for payment products, from design to development, testing, certification, and support.
• Drive the delivery and continuous improvement of the payment platform, ensuring alignment with compliance standards (e.g., EMV, PCI-SSF) and integration with broader technology stack.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Compliance, QA, and Operations teams to ensure payment products meet functional, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Establish and enforce high engineering standards, including code quality, CI/CD pipelines, performance monitoring, and security best practices.
• Manage vendor relationships and certification support.
• Prioritize and allocate engineering resources based on business priorities, product roadmaps, and team strengths.
• Mentor and develop engineering talent, fostering a high-performance culture and supporting career growth.
• Identify emerging trends and technologies in the payments industry and evaluate their relevance to platform strategy.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years in a technical leadership or management role, ideally embedded systems. (Payments, POS is a plus to have)
• Plus, to have proven experience delivering compliant and secure payment systems (EMV L1/L2/L3, PCI, contactless, mobile).
• Strong knowledge of embedded software, Linux-based systems, cloud services, and system integration in payment environments.
• Experience with secure coding practices, cryptography, key management, and payment certifications.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, global, matrixed environment.
Preferred Experience:
• Familiarity with fuel retail technologies, forecourt controllers, and dispenser integration.
• Fueling systems experience
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