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Real Estate Tech (Proptech), SaaS

Engineering Manager, Payments

RemoteRemoteFull TimeManager / HeadPosted 1 month ago

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Required skills

Engineering Manager
Payments
fintech
full-stack web developer
payments engineering team
money-movement systems
transactional integrity
idempotency
failure-mode design
payment rails

Nice to have

enterprise software
AI

Role summary

Qualia is seeking an entrepreneurial, hands-on Engineering Manager for its Payments team. This player/coach role involves leading and redesigning the operations of a modern Engineering Payments team, with a focus on leveraging AI. The ideal candidate has a strong background in the fintech industry, experience with complex, high-liability projects, and expertise in making key architectural decisions. The Payments team is responsible for building and maintaining systems that securely and accurately process billions of dollars in annual transaction volume for real estate closings, including ACH and wire transfers, and integrating with banking partners and financial APIs. Responsibilities include implementing fraud prevention and verification controls, improving core web applications, and ensuring regulatory compliance. The role requires 5+ years of full-stack web development experience and 2+ years of managing a payments engineering team. Familiarity with money movement systems, transactional integrity, and financial compliance standards is preferred. The tech stack includes JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, React, MongoDB, Microservices, Kubernetes, and AWS. This role is based in Austin, Texas, with remote possibilities.

At Qualia, we've built the leading B2B real estate technology that transforms the home buying and selling experience into a simple, secure, and enjoyable process. Our SMB and Enterprise products bring together users from across the real estate ecosystem—homebuyers and sellers, lenders, title and escrow agents, and real estate agents—onto a single shared digital closing platform, providing greater clarity and transparency to real estate transactions. Today, through our business customers across the country, millions of consumers use Qualia to close on homes every year.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

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. 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. 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.

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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

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)

YOUR BACKGROUND THAT LIKELY MAKES YOU A MATCH

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

5+ years of experience as a strong full-stack web developer and 2+ years of experience managing a payments engineering team

Direct experience building or maintaining other money-movement systems (banking, fintech, payments processors, or similar regulated environments strongly preferred)

Strong understanding of transactional integrity, idempotency, and failure-mode design in financial systems

Familiarity with payment rails, banking APIs, or financial compliance standards (NACHA, OFAC screening, PCI, SOC 2) is a strong plus

You have made key architectural decisions for large, high-stakes projects

You have mentored junior developers

You have worked on multiple engineering teams, both small and large

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

THE TECH STACK YOU'LL USE

JavaScript / TypeScript / NodeJS

SPA Frontend libraries like React and MeteorJS

MongoDB

Microservice architecture / Kubernetes

AWS

While this role is based in Austin, Texas, we're open to exploring remote possibilities for qualified candidates. We have other physical office locations in San Francisco, California, and Concord, New Hampshire.

WHY QUALIA

Qualia is made up of incredibly bright, mission-driven coworkers who are passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems---and we're growing quickly. In order to continue building an engaging and dynamic organization, we're committed to giving everyone the support they need to do great work.

Our benefits package is designed to allow our team members to be their best selves, both in and out of the workplace. In addition to comprehensive health plans, a 401k program, and commuter benefits, we prioritize family and personal well-being through professional development, parental leave, and a flexible time off policy. Qualia offers a robust online onboarding program to train new hires, biweekly all hands meetings, and a variety of internal virtual events to keep employees connected.

We believe diverse perspectives and backgrounds are critical to building great technology, and our goal is to cultivate an environment where people feel equally valued and respected. Qualia is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, or veteran status.

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