Manager, Engineering – Growth Platforms

Join Paystone and Lead the Future of Scalable Growth Platforms!

At Paystone, we're more than a tech company — we're building the future of customer-driven growth. Our products empower small businesses to thrive, and we're doing it by staying true to our values: thinking people first, solving impactful problems, and building a better future. As we continue to scale, we're looking for leaders who are as passionate about people as they are about technology.

Your Role: Manager, Engineering – Growth Platforms

Are you a technical leader who thrives on solving complex problems while nurturing high-performing teams? Do you get excited about scalable platforms, marketing automation, and the opportunity to lead impactful projects from concept to execution? Paystone is looking for an Engineering Manager to guide our Automated Growth and Atom engineering teams — critical to our marketing automation and payments platform.

In this role, you'll bring your leadership, technical expertise, and product-focused mindset to help shape the future of growth at Paystone.

Why Choose Paystone?

Impact: Shape core systems that power how small businesses acquire, engage, and retain customers.

People-First Flexibility: Embrace outcomes over hours — work in the way that supports your best self.

Technical Autonomy: Drive engineering practices, architecture decisions, and team culture.

Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, and GTM teams to build solutions that matter.

What You'll Do:

Lead and Inspire

• Manage, mentor, and coach software engineers and tech leads.
• Cultivate a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-minded team culture.
• Drive performance management, career development, and goal-setting for your team.
• Step in to support squads on architectural decisions, code reviews, and security matters.

Deliver with Confidence

• Ensure timely delivery of high-quality software with realistic planning and risk management.
• Champion testing strategies and quality-first development practices.
• Report on sprint performance and continuously drive process improvements.

Drive Technical Strategy

• Lead large-scale platform and infrastructure initiatives across multiple products.
• Guide adoption of scalable APIs, shared services, and AI-driven innovation.
• Prioritize and manage technical debt, system health, and platform resilience.
• Draft quarterly OKRs and engineering KPIs in collaboration with the VP of Engineering.

Collaborate Cross-Functionally

• Partner with product managers and business stakeholders to align on goals and strategy.
• Communicate progress and strategic milestones clearly across the organization.
• Establish standards for team communication, knowledge sharing, and documentation.

Who You Are:

Experienced: 10+ years in software development, with 3+ years in an engineering leadership role.

Technically Strong: Hands-on expertise with TypeScript and at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure).

Strategic & Decisive: Able to prioritize, plan, and make technical decisions that scale with business growth.

SaaS-Focused: Experience building, scaling, and maintaining SaaS platforms — bonus if you've worked in marketing tech or payments.

People-Centric: You lead with empathy, communicate effectively, and foster a culture of excellence and inclusivity.

Bonus Skills:

• Experience with platform-level architecture and reusable services
• Familiarity with AI/ML applications in product workflows
• Passion for developer experience, system scalability, and secure-by-design principles

If you're ready to lead a high-impact team, shape the future of growth platforms, and work at the intersection of people and product — we want to hear from you.

Apply now and let's grow together!