Engineering Manager – Fintech

About the role

Highway is a fintech company building banking products, and its Engineering Manager leads engineering teams while taking full responsibility for end-to-end delivery of critical initiatives. The role combines technical depth with strong people management and delivery skills, ensuring products are scalable, secure and compliant with fintech standards.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and grow the engineering team, mentoring and supporting professional development
• Ensure technical excellence through code quality, security and compliance with fintech regulations
• Collaborate with architects and senior engineers to design scalable, secure and resilient systems
• Create a culture of ownership and collaboration; run regular 1:1s, conduct performance assessments, set goals and create development plans
• Own end-to-end delivery of initiatives, working with Product and Project Managers on priorities, roadmaps and deliverables
• Track delivery metrics, anticipate risks, remove blockers and act as the main engineering point of contact for stakeholders
• Embed agile practices, champion automation, CI/CD and DevOps, and lead post-mortems and retrospectives

Required profile

• 7+ years of software engineering experience and at least 3+ years in an engineering management role
• Strong delivery management experience, ideally in fintech, banking or payments
• Deep understanding of the SDLC and agile methodologies applied at scale
• Strong people leadership, communication and strategic thinking skills

Required skills

• 5+ years with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g. SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
• Deep technical foundation such as .NET, APIs, microservices and cloud-native systems

What we offer

• Hybrid schedule: 52 remote days per year (one day per week)
• Health insurance, gym package and paid time off (6-8 days per year)
• Performance reviews, referral bonuses, training and development programs, celebration gifts and team activities