Engineering Manager (Payments)

• We are hiring an entrepreneurial hands-on Engineering Manager to lead Qualia’s Payments team. This is a builder/player/coach role, and you won’t just run a team - you’ll redesign how a modern Engineering Payments team operates when AI can do the first pass on nearly everything we used to do by hand
• Every real estate closing ends with money changing hands: earnest money deposits, loan funding, mortgage payoffs, seller proceeds, and commissions. Qualia powers a substantial portion of U.S. residential home sales every year, totaling billions of dollars in transaction volume. The Payments team builds the systems that move those funds safely, accurately, and on time
• Our engineers are entrepreneurial, pragmatic builders who move quickly without cutting corners, and who are as comfortable owning a project end to end as they are collaborating with a team. We ship frequently, as often as multiple times a day, and work directly with design, compliance, and customer-facing teams to build payment experiences our customers depend on
• Serve as a hands-on Engineering Manager (Player/Coach) to build the payments team
• Design, build, and maintain systems that process ACH and wire transfers at scale (billions of dollars annually), including origination, settlement, reconciliation, and exception handling
• Build and harden payment-processing pipelines that integrate with banking partners, payment rails, and third-party financial APIs
• Implement controls for wire fraud prevention, transaction verification, and anomaly detection alongside our security and compliance teams
• Improve and extend core web applications (frontend and backend) that support escrow accounting and closing-day money movement
• Own architectural decisions for payments infrastructure, including data integrity, idempotency, retry/failure handling, and audit logging
• Partner with Compliance, Risk, and Accounting stakeholders to ensure systems meet regulatory and audit requirements (e.g., NACHA rules, wire fraud regulations, SOC 2 controls)
• THE TECH STACK YOU’LL USE
• JavaScript / TypeScript / NodeJS
• SPA Frontend libraries like React and MeteorJS
• MongoDB
• Microservice architecture / Kubernetes
• AWS

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision: Healthcare plans to keep your mind and body healthy.
• Competitive salary & equity: Our team builds together and benefits together.
• Flexible schedules: Our focus is on results so work at your peak hours.
• Customized workstations: It helps to build the best when your tools are the best.
• Unlimited learning: Better yourself with in-house and external courses.
• Hot meals & a stocked kitchen: Daily catered lunches so you’re always well fed.- You have experience making key architectural decisions and performing the research to back up those decisions. You’ve dealt with the consequences of your mistakes, and you know how to fight fires if necessary. You enjoy mentoring and providing support. You’ve thrived in different environments and realize that each team is unique
• As an Engineering Manager, Payments, you’ve been in the fintech industry for a while and have a proven track record of success. You are comfortable leading complex, high-liability projects
• 5+ years of experience as a strong full-stack web developer and 2+ years of experience managing a payments engineering team
• Familiarity with payment rails, banking APIs, or financial compliance standards (NACHA, OFAC screening, PCI, SOC 2) is a strong plus
• Direct experience building or maintaining other money-movement systems (banking, fintech, payments processors, or similar regulated environments strongly preferred)
• Good product sense, strong attention to detail, and a passion for building systems people can trust with their money
• Background in enterprise software and fintech preferred
• You have made key architectural decisions for large, high-stakes projects
• You have mentored junior developers
• Strong understanding of transactional integrity, idempotency, and failure-mode design in financial systems
• You have worked on multiple engineering teams, both small and large
• You’ve taken full ownership of complex, high-liability payment systems in production, and you know how to respond calmly and methodically when funds are on the line