Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PayJunction is a payments technology company that helps developers, businesses, and partners process payments through its platform. The Engineering Manager will lead a software engineering team while remaining hands-on in production Java development, setting technical direction, improving delivery quality, developing engineers, and owning production services and security requirements.
Responsibilities
- Own the team's technical vision and roadmap, lead design reviews for major initiatives, and identify and mitigate the key technical risks in a payments platform
- Run the team's Scrum ceremonies as the accountable leader, from planning and grooming through pointing and retros, protecting sprint scope from interrupt load so the team finishes what it commits to
- Partner with Product to scope, phase, and size initiatives before commitments are made, and negotiate scope when a request exceeds capacity rather than absorbing the overflow
- Set and enforce the definition of done for tests, review, and documentation, and personally perform substantive code reviews that hold junior and senior engineers to the same bar
- Use code review and 1:1s as teaching surfaces, build and work a development plan with every engineer, and grow people toward their next level
- Own the employee lifecycle for your team, from hiring and onboarding through reviews and coaching underperformers early, while building psychological safety without lowering the bar
- Stay in the code: ship production Java each sprint, author design docs for major initiatives, and review front-end changes in HTML, JavaScript, and Angular competently
- Own your team's services in production, including monitoring, alerting, deployments, and incident response, and bake PCI DSS and security requirements into designs early rather than retrofitting them
Skills
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with hands-on ownership of production systems
- 3+ years at Senior Engineer level or above; you spent at least half of your most recent management role hands-on in the code and can still operate at that level
- 3+ years of engineering management, directly managing a team of 4 or more engineers, including hiring and performance reviews
- 5+ years of Java experience including web frameworks, with production Java written within the last 12 months
- 2+ years running Scrum ceremonies as Scrum Master or the accountable equivalent, not just participating in them
- Production Linux experience, ideally Ubuntu
- Payments or B2B SaaS industry experience
- Experience in a PCI DSS or comparably regulated engineering environment
- A BS in Computer Science, or a sustained record of senior-level engineering work in its place
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision paid 100% by company for you and your dependents
- 401k with 6% match
- FSA and Dependent Care FSA
- Long-term & short-term disability coverage for you paid 100% by company
- 8 paid company holidays per year
- 2 paid floating holidays per year
- 1 paid volunteer day per year
- Paid Time Off
- Home office equipment stipend
- Annual Learning Stipend
- Quarterly “fun budgets” for team bonding events
- Opportunity to be part of a company that is changing a whole industry
- Opportunity for growth within the company
- Opportunity for remote, in-office, or hybrid work
- Company-provided equipment for your home office
- An equipment allowance for home office essentials
- Bright and open offices in downtown Santa Barbara
- Stocked snack kitchens
- Collaborative work spaces with Herman Miller chairs, height-adjustable desks, and a large 32-inch monitors
- Dog-friendly office
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