Software Engineering Manager, Payments Platform
Google · Posted Nov 4
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About the role
The Payments team at Google focuses on making payments simple, seamless, and secure across consumer payment technologies and money movement between Google and its consumers and businesses. The team builds products and capabilities such as Autofill, tap to pay in stores, and the Google Pay app. This role leads a team of Software Engineers and manages the Sanctions platform infrastructure, partnering with Product, Program, Payments Compliance, and Export Legal teams on sanctions screening capabilities and roadmaps.
What you will do
- Lead, manage, and develop a team of Software Engineers. Perform talent reviews, ensure growth opportunities exist for top talent, and build a healthy team culture.
- Exercise the technical judgment and decision-making expected of Staff-level engineers to guide system architecture and design. Ensure technical decisions are made promptly and risks are proactively managed to unblock engineers.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders from Product, Program, Payments Compliance and Export Legal teams to develop new capabilities, publish multi-year roadmaps, and improve the quality and reliability of existing solutions.
- Manage the infrastructure for Sanctions platform, ensuring robustness, scalability, and reliability while actively addressing technical debt.
- Partner with the Product Manager to understand the legal and compliance requirements for sanctions screening, proposing scalable, common or customized solutions.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
- 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
- 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
Preferred qualifications
- Master's Degree or PhD degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable products and services for external clients.
- Experience with large-scale backend server infrastructure (e.g., Monarch, Spanner, etc.).
- Proven ability to demonstrate Staff-level technical judgement and decision-making for large-scale backend systems.
- Background in the compliance domain.
- Excellent working proficiency, communication skills, and experience managing cross-functional stakeholder relationships.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Google
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company focusing on artificial intelligence, online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, and consumer electronics. As a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., it is widely recognized for services like Google Search, YouTube, Android, and the Gemini AI ecosystem.
- Industry
- Internet
- Company size
- 180000+ employees
- Founded
- 1998-09-04
- Location
- Mountain View, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $25M raised
- 1999-06-07Series A$25M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer
Chief Executive Officer, Google Cloud
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