Engineering Director

About the Role

We're looking for an Engineering Director to own the technical strategy and leadership of Onerway's Payments Platform. This is a hands-on leadership role at the center of the business: you'll set the architecture and roadmap for the systems that move our merchants money, build and grow the engineering organization behind them, and partner closely with Commercial, Product, Risk, Operations and Compliance to make sure the platform scales with the business.

You'll do well here if you enjoy the mix of deep technical ownership and organizational building — standing up teams, setting standards, and staying close enough to the stack to make good calls fast.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Onerway's Payments Platform — spanning payins, virtual accounts, payouts, FX, treasury, issuing, and settlement — ensuring it scales reliably across global markets.
• Lead and grow a world-class engineering organization: manage, coach, and develop engineers and engineering leads; build a culture of ownership, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement.
• Drive technical architecture and platform excellence: set high standards for reliability, security, scalability, and developer productivity across the stack.
• Deliver with speed and accountability: set clear KPIs, implement engineering best practices and processes, and hold the org accountable for high-quality, on-time outcomes.
• Align engineering with business outcomes: partner closely with Commercial, Product, Risk, Operations and Compliance so platform capabilities directly support growth, merchant experience, and regulatory requirements.
• Champion AI-augmented development: drive adoption of AI tooling across the SDLC — coding agents, automated testing, and AI-assisted QA — to raise engineering velocity and quality.
• Maintain full-stack fluency: stay conversant across backend, frontend, security, databases, DevOps, and QA to guide architectural trade-offs credibly across the whole platform.
• Right-size delivery to the problem: know when to ship a lean MVP versus invest in a fully hardened product, and apply the right approach depending on the nature of each initiative.

Who You Are

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering leadership.
• A proven track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong product thinking, with the ability to partner closely with product and commercial stakeholders to shape roadmaps and prioritize delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to operate and deliver in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Experience in fintech, payments, or a similarly regulated industry is a strong plus.