Director Engineering
Nium provides global real-time payments infrastructure for businesses, banks, fintechs, marketplaces, payroll providers, and travel companies.
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About Nium Pte. Ltd.
Nium is a global payments infrastructure company that enables businesses and financial institutions to collect, hold, convert, and disburse funds across borders. Its offerings include multi-currency accounts, global payouts, foreign exchange, beneficiary account verification, physical and virtual card issuance, stablecoin-backed cards, the Nium Portal, and APIs for payment integration. Nium serves banks, money transfer operators, marketplaces, payroll providers, spend-management companies, creator-economy platforms, airlines, hotels, and online travel agencies.
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About the Role
You will lead the engineering organization for the card issuing product, owning vision, architecture and delivery across development, QA, release management, reliability and automation. You will partner with the senior technical architect, set standards for code quality and SLOs, integrate AI tools into development, hire and develop distributed teams, and manage budgets while aligning with business leaders.
Requirements
- 10+ years in software engineering with 4+ years managing engineering teams including senior leaders and managers
- Experience building and scaling mission-critical, fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Deep technical expertise (e.g. Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL/MySQL, AWS EKS, Docker/Kubernetes microservices)
- Experience managing distributed global teams
- Experience integrating AI co-pilots and developer productivity tools
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- Nice to have: fintech, card issuing or payments experience
- Nice to have: digital assets, stablecoin or cross-border payments familiarity
Responsibilities
- Partner with the senior technical architect to shape architecture and engineering vision for Card Issuing
- Build and operate mission-critical, high-availability distributed systems
- Set standards for code quality, SLOs and platform scalability
- Integrate AI co-pilots and GenAI tools into development processes
- Hire, develop and inspire engineering teams, managers and program managers across geographies
- Own the full delivery lifecycle including QA, release management and site operations
- Partner with business leaders to align engineering with company strategy
- Manage departmental operating budgets and investment planning
Benefits
- Performance bonuses
- Equity for specific roles
- Medical coverage
- 24/7 employee assistance program
- Generous vacation including year-end shut down
- Hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office)
- Role-specific training, internal workshops and learning stipend
- Company-wide social events, team offsites