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Qualia is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Payments team to lead the systems that move billions of dollars annually in real estate transactions. This is a hands-on player/coach role where you will build and lead a payments engineering team while remaining deeply involved in technical decisions and implementation.
You will own the design, build, and maintenance of payment-processing systems handling ACH and wire transfers at scale, including origination, settlement, reconciliation, and exception handling. Key responsibilities include building and hardening payment pipelines that integrate with banking partners and financial APIs, implementing controls for wire fraud prevention and anomaly detection, improving core web applications supporting escrow accounting and closing-day money movement, and owning architectural decisions for payments infrastructure including data integrity, idempotency, retry/failure handling, and audit logging. You will partner with Compliance, Risk, and Accounting teams to ensure systems meet regulatory requirements such as NACHA rules, wire fraud regulations, and SOC 2 controls.
Qualia's Payments team operates in a fintech environment processing billions in transaction volume annually. Engineers are entrepreneurial, pragmatic builders who ship frequently (multiple times daily) and work directly with design, compliance, and customer-facing teams. The tech stack includes JavaScript/TypeScript/NodeJS, React and MeteorJS frontends, MongoDB, microservice architecture on Kubernetes, and AWS.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years as a strong full-stack web developer
- 2+ years managing a payments engineering team
- Direct experience building or maintaining money-movement systems in banking, fintech, payments processing, or regulated environments (strongly preferred)
- Strong understanding of transactional integrity, idempotency, and failure-mode design in financial systems
- Familiarity with payment rails, banking APIs, or financial compliance standards (NACHA, OFAC screening, PCI, SOC 2) is a strong plus
- Proven track record making key architectural decisions for large, high-stakes projects
- Experience mentoring junior developers
- Experience working on multiple engineering teams, both small and large
- Good product sense, strong attention to detail, and passion for building trustworthy systems
- Background in enterprise software and fintech preferred
