Platform Engineering Manager

About Us:

Spreedly is the world's leading Open Payments Platform, sitting at the center of a network processing more than $50b of GMV annually. Spreedly's Payments Orchestration platform enables and optimizes digital transactions with the world’s most complete payment services marketplace. Built on Spreedly’s PCI-compliant architecture, our Advanced Vault solution combines a modern feature-set with rule-based configurations to optimize the vaulting experience for all stored payment methods. Global enterprises and hyper-growth companies grow their digital business faster by relying on our payments platform. Hundreds of customers worldwide secure card data in our PCI-compliant vault and use tokenized card data to enable and optimize over $45 billion of annual transaction volumes with any payment service.

Our vision is that the world is better with a diversified, inclusive payment ecosystem. Our mission is to accelerate commerce with an open, secure, and flexible payment platform that welcomes all payment participants. Our employees help us execute our vision by building a culture focused on autonomy, transparency, and collaboration in a dynamic, high-growth organization.

Product Offering: 

Spreedly provides an open payments platform. The platform’s connectivity provides payments performance. Key products and services include:

Payment Gateway Integration: Connects merchants, platforms, and marketplaces to multiple payment gateways and payment services.

Tokenization: Securely stores and manages payment data with a universal tokenization service.

Transaction Routing: Enables intelligent routing of transactions to optimize success rates and costs.

Payment Vault: A secure storage solution for sensitive payment information.

Fraud Tools Integration: Integrates with various fraud prevention tools to enhance transaction security.

About the Role:

Spreedly is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to join our Engineering organization. The manager will lead a team that builds and maintains the foundational platform services that power our payments solutions. This team is responsible for core software systems such as cryptography, tokenization, and data pipelines, ensuring the reliability and scalability of the services that support Spreedly’s Open Payments Platform. As a Platform Engineering Manager, you will be pivotal in setting team strategy, driving technical excellence, and ensuring alignment with broader software modernization initiatives. We value ownership, accountability, and innovation in developing the core building blocks that enable future product capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Directly manage a team of engineers responsible for Spreedly’s core platform services and data pipelines.
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to platform reliability, security, and efficiency.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and optimization of mission-critical software services, ensuring high availability and scalability.
• Support developer experience by improving internal tooling, automation, and observability across platform services.
• Foster a collaborative engineering culture, mentoring engineers and helping them grow in their careers.
• Partner cross-functionally with Security, Product, and Infrastructure teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of Engineering Management experience, leading platform engineering teams in high-growth environments.
• Proven experience building and scaling core platform services.
• Deep understanding of modern software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, CI/CD, DevSecOps) and how they apply to platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with relevant technologies such as Ruby, CockroachDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, and/or AWS
• Ability to set technical direction, manage trade-offs, and ensure execution aligns with company objectives.
• Experience collaborating across teams, translating complex technical concepts into actionable strategies for leadership, engineers, and stakeholders.
• Passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent, ensuring both team success and individual growth.

We Offer Our US-Based Employees:

• Competitive salary + Equity
• Outstanding Medical and Dental benefits, including 100% employer-paid options
• Company-paid Life and Disability insurance
• Optional vision and supplemental insurance options, and various Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Open Paid Time Off policy + 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents
• Matching 401(k) plan (5% up to $5,000 yearly)
• $1,000 annual professional development stipend
• Monthly home working/digital lifestyle stipend, new MacBook, and one-time accessory reimbursement
• LinkedIn Learning subscription
• Access to company-paid professional coaching service
• Visits to HQ in Durham, North Carolina for remote employees

#LI-AE1

Spreedly is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We actively work to drive out even unintentional discrimination in our hiring processes via practices like blindly graded work samples, structured interviews, and diversity awareness training.

Due to the sensitive nature of what Spreedly does - handling payment data - finalist candidates must complete a successful background and reference check.

At this time Spreedly is unable to provide sponsorship for employment, and we are not set up to support remote employees who reside in California or New York. In order to be considered for employment, applicants must be currently legally authorized to work in the job location country and not require future sponsorship in order to continue working in that country.

We appreciate your interest in our company. Because of the high volume of resume flow, we may only respond to those candidates that we think will be a potential fit.