Engineering Manager

Your role

What you'll be doing

Engineering Manager

What We Need

Corpay is currently looking to hire an Engineering Manager within our Alpha division.

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will lead a team of Software Engineers responsible for designing, developing, and evolving the cloud-native applications, backend services, and event-driven systems that underpin Corpay's eMoney and FX platforms.

This team focuses on delivering software that improves operational efficiency, enables business capabilities, and provides reusable technical solutions across the organisation. The systems your team develops automate business processes, connect systems through event-driven architectures, and enable scalable, reliable software that supports Corpay's global payments ecosystem.

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for building and leading a high-performing engineering team while ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions. You will work closely with Product Managers, Architects, and fellow Engineering Managers to balance technical excellence with business priorities, fostering an engineering culture built on collaboration, ownership, continuous improvement, and delivery.

Although this is a people leadership role, you will remain technically engaged, contributing to architectural discussions, technical decision-making, solution design, and engineering best practices while empowering your team to own implementation and delivery.

At Corpay, we value leaders who create environments where engineers can thrive. We encourage servant leadership, continuous learning, technical excellence, and open collaboration, enabling our teams to build reliable, scalable software that supports the wider engineering organisation.

How We Work

As an Engineering Manager, Corpay will set you up for success by providing:

A collaborative and supportive engineering environment based in our Chennai office

Company-issued equipment

Formal onboarding and leadership support

Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development

Exposure to modern cloud-native technologies and engineering practices

Opportunities to collaborate with globally distributed engineering, product, architecture, and leadership teams

Role Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the role will include:

Engineering Leadership

Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers.

Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

Conduct regular one-to-one meetings, performance reviews, coaching sessions, and career development conversations.

Support recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, and retention of engineering talent.

Identify skill gaps within the team and create development opportunities through mentoring, coaching, and knowledge sharing.

Technical Leadership

Provide technical leadership across the team's cloud-native applications, backend services, APIs, and event-driven systems.

Collaborate with Architects and Senior Engineers to shape technical direction, solution design, and architectural decisions.

Ensure engineering standards, coding practices, security principles, and software quality expectations are consistently applied.

Remain technically engaged, contributing to design discussions, technical reviews, and engineering decision-making where appropriate.

Encourage engineering best practices including testing, observability, maintainability, scalability, and secure software development.

Delivery & Execution

Partner with Product Managers to translate business objectives into achievable engineering roadmaps and delivery plans.

Ensure successful delivery of high-quality software through effective planning, prioritisation, estimation, and execution.

Remove delivery blockers and help the team navigate technical and organisational challenges.

Balance short-term business priorities with long-term technical sustainability and platform evolution.

Monitor delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and technical debt, ensuring proactive communication with stakeholders.

Operational Excellence

Support the design and evolution of scalable cloud-native applications that improve operational efficiency and enable business capabilities across Corpay.

Encourage the development of reusable backend services, event-driven architectures, and scalable system integrations.

Drive continuous improvements across engineering processes, software quality, developer experience, and operational performance.

Work closely with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to ensure applications are resilient, observable, secure, and operationally reliable.

Promote a culture of learning through retrospectives, technical discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Collaboration & Communication

Build strong working relationships with Product Managers, Architects, Engineering Managers, and business stakeholders.

Communicate engineering progress, technical risks, delivery updates, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.

Foster effective collaboration across globally distributed engineering teams.

Qualifications & Skills

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Minimum of 10 years of professional software engineering experience designing and building scalable backend systems and cloud-native applications.

Minimum of 3 years of people management experience leading software engineering teams.

Strong experience developing applications using C# and modern .NET .

Strong experience designing cloud-native applications using AWS and serverless architectures.

Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and event-driven architecture.

Strong experience designing and developing event-driven applications using messaging and event streaming technologies such as Amazon EventBridge, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS/SNS, or similar.

Experience designing reusable backend services, workflow automation, business process orchestration, and system integrations.

Experience defining cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, including AWS CloudFormation.

Good understanding of Kubernetes and modern cloud deployment environments.

Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability practices for production systems.

Strong understanding of secure software development principles and cloud security best practices.

Demonstrated ability to lead technical delivery while coaching and developing engineers.

Experience managing engineering delivery, balancing technical priorities with business outcomes.

Strong stakeholder management, communication, and organisational skills.

Ability to analyse complex business processes and guide teams in designing scalable software solutions that improve operational efficiency.

Excellent leadership, coaching, mentoring, and decision-making skills.

Nice to Have

Experience within financial services, payments, banking, or other regulated industries.

Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Clean Architecture, and modern software architecture patterns.

Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as Redis.

Experience contributing to CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.

Experience leading distributed or geographically diverse engineering teams.

Benefits & Perks

Earned leave, sick leave, casual leave, national holidays, maternity, paternity, bereavement, and adoption/surrogacy leave.

Group medical insurance for employees and eligible dependents.

Personal accident insurance.

Wellness allowance and annual health check-ups for employees and their families.

Broadband reimbursement and meal card support.