Senior Engineering Manager in London

We are seeking a London‑based Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow the engineering team responsible for building and operating backend services supporting payment, checkout, and transactional workflows. You will partner closely with Product, Frontend, Platform, and Infrastructure teams to set technical direction, uphold engineering excellence, and deliver secure, scalable systems in high‑throughput environments.

This role sits at the core of Verifone's payments and checkout platform, where engineering leadership directly impacts secure, high‑volume transactions used globally. You'll be accountable for the health, delivery, and culture of a team building production‑critical systems that must perform reliably under real‑world load, evolving payment methods, and strict security requirements.

Required Skills and Experience

• Leadership & People Management
  • Proven experience managing and mentoring software engineering teams
  • Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineering talent
  • Ability to set clear goals, run effective performance cycles, and foster a culture of accountability and growth
  • Experience facilitating cross‑functional collaboration across Product, Design, Platform, and Infrastructure stakeholders
  • Strong communicator able to translate technical complexity for non‑technical audiences
• Technical Depth
  • Solid hands‑on background in backend engineering — sufficient to credibly guide technical decisions, conduct design reviews, and support engineers day‑to‑day
  • Familiarity with Node.js / TypeScript backend systems and modern backend frameworks (e.g., Hapi.js, Express, Fastify, or NestJS)
  • Grounding in Clean Architecture, Domain‑Driven Design (DDD), and modular system design
  • Understanding of RESTful API design, database modeling (MongoDB), and caching strategies (Redis)
  • Comfort discussing cloud infrastructure (AWS), CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Git workflows
• Delivery & Process
  • Experience owning end‑to‑end delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams
  • Ability to balance speed of delivery with long‑term code quality, reliability, and maintainability
  • Familiarity with agile methodologies and the ability to adapt process to team needs
  • Experience managing roadmaps and working with Product to scope, prioritize, and sequence engineering work
• Engineering Culture & Quality
  • Passion for building high‑quality, testable, and well‑documented systems
  • Champions automated testing, code review practices, and engineering best practices
  • Data‑driven approach to reliability — comfortable with monitoring, incident response, and blameless post‑mortems

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Payments & Security Domain
  • Experience leading teams in fintech, payments, or e‑commerce environments
  • Familiarity with payment provider integrations (e.g., Stripe, PayPal, Klarna) and flows such as authorization, capture, refund, and 3D Secure
  • Awareness of PCI‑DSS requirements and security best practices in high‑compliance environments
  • Understanding of fraud‑related considerations and risk in transactional systems
• Production Engineering
  • Experience overseeing high‑availability, fault‑tolerant systems in production
  • Exposure to performance optimization, APM tooling (e.g., AppDynamics), and SLA management
  • Familiarity with messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Redis Pub/Sub
• Platform & Architecture Exposure
  • Experience working alongside frontend frameworks such as Angular or React
  • Familiarity with server‑side rendering, iframe‑based widget embedding, and internationalization (i18n) systems
  • Exposure to event‑driven or microservices architectures at scale

Our Commitment

Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.