Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway based in Spain. This is a senior engineering leadership opportunity to shape the technology behind a high-scale digital payments platform serving millions of businesses and individuals. You will own the technical strategy, architecture, and engineering roadmap across payment acceptance, payouts, commerce tools, and developer-facing capabilities. The platform processes significant transaction volumes and is expanding toward multi-currency and international markets. You will lead multiple engineering organizations through experienced managers while setting high standards for reliability, security, scalability, and engineering quality. A major focus will be creating an exceptional developer experience through APIs, SDKs, documentation, and seamless integrations. This role is ideal for a hands-on technology leader who combines deep Java expertise with strong organizational leadership and payments experience. This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway based in Spain. This is a senior engineering leadership opportunity to shape the technology behind a high-scale digital payments platform serving millions of businesses and individuals. You will own the technical strategy, architecture, and engineering roadmap across payment acceptance, payouts, commerce tools, and developer-facing capabilities. The platform processes significant transaction volumes and is expanding toward multi-currency and international markets. You will lead multiple engineering organizations through experienced managers while setting high standards for reliability, security, scalability, and engineering quality. A major focus will be creating an exceptional developer experience through APIs, SDKs, documentation, and seamless integrations. This role is ideal for a hands-on technology leader who combines deep Java expertise with strong organizational leadership and payments experience. Accountabilities: As Head of Engineering, you will provide technical and organizational leadership across a large-scale payment gateway platform, balancing long-term architecture with operational excellence and business priorities. Own the overall technical strategy, architecture, and engineering roadmap across the payment platform and its core capability areas. Lead multiple engineering teams through Engineering Managers, establishing quality standards and strengthening organizational capabilities. Own the developer experience end-to-end, including APIs, SDKs, documentation, integration workflows, and developer-facing tools. Drive the platform's evolution toward multi-currency capabilities and international market expansion. Ensure high standards of platform reliability, scalability, security, and resilience within a regulated financial environment. Guide the architecture and operation of high-throughput, distributed transactional systems. Partner with Product, Commercial, Operations, and other functions to align technical investments with strategic business objectives. Hire, mentor, develop, and retain Engineering Managers and senior engineering talent. Establish scalable engineering practices, systems, and mechanisms that improve quality and reduce organizational friction. Promote a culture of ownership, technical excellence, transparency, urgency, and customer focus. Requirements: The ideal candidate is an experienced engineering executive who combines significant hands-on software engineering expertise with a proven track record of managing engineering organizations through other leaders. 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in engineering leadership roles. 5+ years of hands-on, production-level experience writing and shipping Java code as a practicing engineer. Recent experience actively working with production Java code, rather than solely overseeing teams that use Java. At least 5 years of experience managing Engineering Managers and leading organizations through other engineering leaders. Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams within a scaling organization. Strong background in payments, fintech, or financial services, with a practical understanding of payment flows and regulatory requirements. Deep knowledge of API-first products, developer platforms, and API integrations. Strong backend engineering expertise, particularly with high-throughput, distributed, and transactional systems. Experience owning or building developer-facing products used externally through APIs, SDKs, sandboxes, or integration platforms. Experience building or operating payment infrastructure such as payment gateways, hosted checkout, payment links, or payment routing is highly desirable. Experience with technologies such as Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and AWS-based microservices is an advantage. Strong strategic thinking, organizational judgment, and ability to make clear technical trade-offs. Customer-focused, highly accountable, candid, collaborative, and comfortable operating with urgency in a fast-moving environment. Strong commitment to integrity, transparency, continuous improvement, and developing high-performing engineering teams. Benefits: Opportunity to own critical payment infrastructure supporting thousands of businesses and developers. Work on systems processing hundreds of billions of dollars in transaction value annually. High-impact role at the intersection of payments, fintech, distributed systems, and international expansion. Opportunity to shape a platform moving toward multi-currency and multi-market capabilities. Fast-paced, technically demanding environment with significant engineering ownership. Mission-driven work focused on expanding access to financial services across high-growth markets. Opportunity to lead and develop multiple engineering teams and senior technical leaders. Remote work opportunity based in Spain. How Jobgether works: We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. 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