Engineering Manager

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Job Summary

PayJunction is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers from inside the code, still shipping production Java yourself, while setting technical direction, raising the quality bar, and making delivery predictable on a platform where a defect is a financial event.
Why PayJunction ?

PayJunction is relentless and emphatic about helping others. We exist to drive the success of our partners. Specifically, the developers who connect to us, businesses who process payments through us, and all of our team members who work with us at PayJunction .

We believe dreams inspire people to start a business, and others to partner with them. While building dreams, entrepreneurs and business professionals will face many challenges along the way. We believe great partners can make all the difference.
We are your dream partner.
Your success is our success.
Our dream is to help you realize yours.

We exist to drive the success of our partners. We do this by fundamentally changing the way you transact with others. We just happen to make great payment systems. If you love helping others succeed, in a culture that celebrates perfecting your craft, consider partnering with us.
Location

PayJunction takes a Flex First approach to work environments. This means that our team members can choose to work from our Santa Barbara office or remotely from home. We ensure that everyone has the resources and equipment to work where they feel most productive. We trust our teams to make the best decision for their work environment. All PayJunction employees must reside in one of the following states: CA, IL, TX, MN, CO, GA, NY, MA, CT.
Mission

Our Engineering team’s mission is to design, develop, and maintain the products, technology, and systems that drive our partners' success.
Vision

Thousands of partners love and rely on our platform to make payments simple.
Job 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.

Qualifications

- 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