EPS Engineering Lead
Role Summary

Lead Enterprise Payment Services (EPS) for SCMS and drive architecture, delivery, operational excellence, and risk management under durable employee-led ownership.

Key Responsibilities

• Own EPS roadmap, architecture, and delivery across payment processing, reconciliation, exception handling, and downstream integrations.
• Set standards for reliability, auditability, observability, and change control in high-volume transactional environments.
• Design and oversee scalable microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Partner with Product, Finance, ESRE, Operations, and engineering stakeholders to prioritize initiatives and manage release readiness.
• Lead production support, root-cause analysis, incident management, and operational improvements.
• Drive modernization efforts for APIs, integrations, monitoring, and platform engineering practices.
• Coach and mentor engineering teams, manage vendors/contractors, and transition critical knowledge into internal teams.
• Collaborate with QE and SRE teams to improve automation, release validation, and operational excellence.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building or operating enterprise-scale platforms.
• 3+ years of experience in technical leadership, staff engineering, or engineering management roles.
• Strong expertise in:
  • Java / backend engineering
  • Microservices architecture
  • REST APIs
  • Event-driven systems
  • Distributed systems
  • SQL and transactional systems
  • Cloud-native development
  • Observability and monitoring tools
• Experience working in payment systems, settlements, reconciliation, or other mission-critical transactional domains.
• Strong understanding of production engineering, scalability, reliability engineering, and incident response processes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, CI/CD pipelines, AWS, or Azure.
• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
• Experience with enterprise integrations and workflow orchestration.
• Exposure to high-volume commerce or supply-chain platforms.