Senior Engineering Manager- Payment Experience

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><p>We are on a mission to pioneer the world’s next era of play. As we grow across Europe and Latin America, we’re building The Playstack - the technology powering the next generation of sports, gaming, and fan experiences. Join us, and help make it the most widely used platform in the world! From operations, to marketing, to product, we are looking for talented people who will shape how millions of customers play, watch, and connect every day.</p></div><div class="p-rich_text_section"> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Senior Engineering Manager – Payment Experience&nbsp;</strong></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">As&nbsp;<strong>Senior Engineering Manager – Payment Experience</strong>, you will lead two stream-aligned squads — Cards Experience and Cashier Experience — within the Transact tribe, working towards one vision: "Right payment. Right method. Right moment." This is a full-stack leadership role spanning card PSP integrations and 3DS routing through to frontend performance and native release trains, sitting at the centre of customer trust and conversion, where speed, approval rates, and reliability matter as much as feature delivery. Cards Experience owns end-to-end card journeys representing close to half of global deposit volume, whilst Cashier Experience owns the Player Cashier platform that every payment squad builds on.</p> <h4 class="text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold">What the role involves</h4> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Lead two cross-functional squads across backend, frontend, native iOS/Android, and QA, delivering the card payment experience and the Player Cashier platform while keeping ownership boundaries clear and dependencies low.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Drive predictable delivery and strong engineering hygiene across web, native, and backend release paths, including definition of done, testing expectations, and release readiness.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Own and evolve the full-stack systems behind both squads, guiding Cards decisions across PSP integrations, card token vaulting with 3DS, 3DS strategy, traffic routing management, fraud integration boundaries, and decline-recovery flows.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Guide Cashier decisions across the Player Cashier frontend platform, the "golden development path", web performance and TTI optimisation, embedded micro-cashier journeys, native alignment, and personalisation foundations.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Establish and operate a pragmatic RFC/ADR process for architectural changes, ensuring decisions are documented, reviewed, and reversible where possible.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Own production excellence across the domain, including observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Sentry; end-to-end payment-journey traceability; incident management and post-incident reviews; and reporting pipelines to Snowflake/DWH for approval-rate, cost, and conversion reporting.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Champion safe delivery across environments from Dev to QA, Stage, and Prod, with clear rollout plans, feature-flagging, and verification for continuous frontend deployment and native release cadences alike.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Partner with adjacent Transact squads and functions, including Alternative Payments, Payment Platform, Core Wallet, and Fraud tea

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