Manage a team of engineers for payment processing, overseeing projects, technical roadmaps, code quality, and team development in an agile environment.
At Super.com, we’re on a mission to help people save more, earn more, and get more out of life. That goes for both our customers and our team.
For our employees, Super.com is more than just a workplace—it’s an opportunity to grow, make an impact, and unlock your full potential. We invest in learning, celebrate bold ideas, and create pathways for career growth.
We move fast, think big, and always put people first. Your career should be as rewarding as the work you do, and at Super.com, we’re here to make every day Super.
About the role:
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Payments Processing full-stack engineering team. In this role you will directly manage 3-5 engineers. You will predominantly work with Python backend services using FastAPI, with a splash of React on the frontend. Our Payments Processing team has a heavier backend workload managing transaction state, integrations with third parties for processing and fraud mitigation, and managing recurring billing and Super+ subscription plans. That being said, the team also owns frontend components on the checkout page, and frontend-backend interactions such as card tokenization and vaulting. Other than Python and React, other technologies you’ll work with include Gitlab, AWS, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, Amplitude, and Snowflake. You will report into a Director of Engineering.
About you:
We’re looking for highly-motivated self-starters who share our excitement for growth and impact. The ideal candidate will be interested and able to technically manage a team of full-stack engineers, with experience on payments processing or core platform teams. In addition, the candidate is a strong communicator, interested in continuous learning, and looking forward to working in a scaleup environment with an emphasis on delivering business value. The ideal candidate is interested in a 30:30:30:10 split between technical leadership : team management : people management : individual contributions. Finally, the ideal candidate is an empathetic people leader, is highly collaborative, is data-driven, is scrappy, and loves to ship impactful code with rapid iteration.
What you'll be working on:
- Manage the technical and people leadership aspects of a full-stack team of 3-5 engineers working on payments processing. You will be accountable for the continued staffing of the team, including being a key contributor to hiring processes
- Propel the business and engineering org forward by leading high-impact projects end-to-end in an iterative, data-driven, scaleup environment
- Shape the technical roadmap for the team, contribute to product roadmap and OKR discussions, and drive the engineering agile processes for the team
- Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and growth, ensuring team members excel with oversight and mentorship, are working on projects at the intersection of interest, experience, and business impact, and have concrete opportunities for growth
- Drive high release quality and cadence by completing code reviews, ensuring tests are written, and sustainable yet pragmatic development practices are followed
- Strategically contribute technically - write important design docs, tackle particularly intricate components / features or services, jumping in as an individual contributor when appropriate
- Contribute to cross-team technical meetings and discussions, and opportunities to improve engineering productivity and processes
Out Technology:
- We use a state of the art architecture powered by Node and Python microservices and React frontend
- We use Postgres for storage, Redis for caching, and Snowflake for our data warehouseWe use Gitlab for version control and CI/CD, and our infrastructure is hosted on AWS, making use of Kubernetes, RDS, etc
- We invest heavily in monitoring and automated alerting using Datadog
- We use Amplitude, Hotjar, and LogRocket for client-side metrics and experimentation
- We use Material-UI and maintain our own component library, using Figma for mock-upsWe integrate with a multitude of third-parties to support our compliance, risk, and security policies
Who we're looking for:
- 4+ years software development experience, including 1+ years of either formal management
- Coding: senior technical depth in Python. Also, at least intermediate depth on frontend development using a modern frontend framework (ex. React/Vue/Angular)
- Strong knowledge of modern web technologies and system design & architecture
- Been a technical lead for shipping major features/projects
- Been involved in hiring & interview processes
- Experience working in an agile setting
Bonus points for:
- Working experience across a breadth of our stack (React, Python, Gitlab, AWS, Docker, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, Amplitude, and Snowflake)SQL / analytics know-how, and experience with devops concepts
- Experience in a startup/scaleup environment
- Worked closely with business stakeholders, and experience spearheading agile processes
We’ve got you covered
- We are remote first: You have the flexibility to work from around the world and the hours that make sense for you– so that you can do your best work while living life on your own terms
- Other perks include: unlimited PTO, recharge days, travel discounts on Travel, Weekly UberEats credit, annual company offsites
- We welcome new family additions with generous parental leave and a flexible return-to-work plan
- Competitive salary packages, equity options, great benefits from day one, wellness budgets, as well as personal and team-level development budgets
- This is just scratching the surface– see our careers site for a more detailed overview of our perks & benefits
We Believe in Equal Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If needed, please notify our Talent Acquisition Partner.
Top Skills
Amplitude
AWS
Datadog
Fastapi
Gitlab
Kubernetes
Postgres
Python
React
Redis
Snowflake
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