About us:
Pay.com.au is one of Australia’s fastest‑growing technology scale-ups, trusted by businesses. As we continue to scale in Australia and launch into the US under PayRewards.com, our mission is to simplify and supercharge the way they pay everyday expenses. Since 2019, we’ve been transforming business payments by enabling companies—from sole traders to large enterprises.
Our unified platform lets users link their bank accounts and any major credit card, improving cash flow while unlocking powerful rewards on every transaction.
Recognised as a rapidly scaling Australian success story—with coverage in outlets like the Australian Financial Review noting our growth with a $600++ million valuation we’re reshaping how businesses think about payments, loyalty and financial efficiency.
At Pay.com.au, you’ll join a fast-growing team shaping the future of B2B payments. Our Melbourne office is a hub of creativity, collaboration, and seriously great coffee—an environment where ideas move quickly and impact is felt every day. If you want to be part of a company with momentum, this is the place to be.
Why join us?
- Be part of an exciting Tech Scale-up, with teams across Australia and the USA.
- Enjoy flexible working arrangements and a great work-life balance.
- Awarded 2025 People’s Choice Award winner at the Finder Innovation Awards, Finalist for FinTech Organisation of the Year at the 2025 FinTech Australia Finnies, Number 1 on the Smart50 list 2024, Top 3 Deloitte Tech Fast 50 & Victoria State Champion!
- Grow your career in a culture that values creativity, innovation, and collaboration.
- Access to learning budgets to accelerate your career.
Senior Engineering Manager
The Payments (Money Movement) team sits at the core of Pay’s platform, ensuring money moves reliably, securely and at scale. They operate three high-performing engineering squads responsible for building and maintaining the resilient transaction systems that power customers’ daily operations.
This role oversees the three squads within this tribe and ensures the delivery of high-quality, resilient transaction systems that power our customers’ daily operations.
As the Leader you will partner closely with Product to shape and execute the roadmap, while maintaining a deep focus on customer outcomes, system reliability, and team effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop multiple engineering squads within the Money Movement (Payments) tribe, fostering a high-performance and accountable culture
- Own delivery outcomes for the tribe, ensuring roadmap commitments are met with high quality, predictability, and speed
- Partner closely with Product Managers to define priorities, balance trade-offs, and ensure strong alignment between customer needs and engineering execution
- Drive the design and evolution of scalable, secure, and highly reliable payment systems that can support significant transaction volume growth
- Champion modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development, to improve team productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity
- Establish and continuously improve engineering rituals, metrics, and operating cadence to make delivery more transparent and predictable
- Ensure strong operational excellence, including system reliability, observability, incident management, and post-incident learning
- Hire, mentor, and grow engineering talent, building a strong leadership bench within the tribe
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Security, Infrastructure and Data to meet regulatory and operational requirements
About You
- Technical skills: Strong background in building and scaling distributed systems, ideally in payments, fintech, or other high-throughput transactional domains
- Experience: 10+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years in engineering leadership managing multiple teams or squads
- Domain knowledge: Experience with payment systems, transaction processing, financial systems, or other high-reliability platforms
- Delivery leadership: Proven ability to deliver complex systems at pace while maintaining high standards of quality and reliability
- AI & modern practices: Demonstrated interest or experience in leveraging AI tools to improve engineering productivity and workflows
- Communication: Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to align engineering, product, and business priorities
- Customer mindset: Deep empathy for customers and a track record of building systems that solve real user problems
We know not everyone will meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If you’re excited about the role and believe you can make an impact, we’re keen to hear from you.
A few more things…
Successful candidates joining the team will need to complete a National Police Record Check & work right checks.
Candidates who require adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process are encouraged to let us know. We’re happy to support you.
We’re committed to an inclusive and diverse recruitment process where everyone feels respected and supported. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, identities and abilities and ensure fair, equitable consideration at every stage.
