Position Summary...What you'll do...The
Senior Manager, Software Engineering leads the execution and evolution of large-scale payment platforms across multiple engineering teams. This role owns delivery, architecture, operational excellence, and technical strategy for highly available distributed systems while ensuring alignment with business priorities and roadmap commitments. The leader drives cloud-native engineering, DevOps, automation, observability, cost optimization, and payment-platform resiliency while guiding architectural decisions and engineering standards. The role also develops engineering talent, manages cross-functional stakeholder relationships, and ensures payment solutions meet scalability, security, compliance, performance, and reliability expectations in a complex, regulated transaction environment.
What you'll do: - Lead platform-level execution for highly available, distributed payment systems aligned with business priorities and roadmap milestones.
- Drive architecture for payment processing, transaction routing, authorization, retries, reversals, fallback, and resiliency.
- Oversee cloud infrastructure, shared tooling, DevOps, CI/CD, automation, telemetry, and production readiness across multiple teams.
- Partner with product, architecture, security, operations, and payment stakeholders to deliver complex initiatives while meeting compliance and certification requirements.
- Guide architectural decisions for scalability, fault tolerance, performance, security, and cost optimization.
- Mentor engineers, strengthen technical ownership, lead operational improvements, and establish metrics for availability, transaction success, latency, recovery, and platform health.
What you'll bring: - Proven engineering leadership experience delivering large-scale, highly available distributed platforms in payments, fintech, retail, or transaction-intensive environments.
- Strong understanding of the payment lifecycle, including authorization, capture, reversal, refund, settlement, reconciliation, and exception handling.
- Experience with payment routing, orchestration, failover, idempotency, gateways, processors, acquirers, issuers, card networks, tokenization, and PCI DSS.
- Deep knowledge of cloud-native architecture, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence.
- Demonstrated ability to guide architecture, manage production incidents, optimize cloud costs, mentor engineers, and enforce security and quality standards.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across product, business, compliance, security, operations, and external payment partners in complex, regulated environments.platforms across multiple engineering teams.
Benefits:Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
The annual salary range for this position is $132,000.00 - $264,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
- Stock
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Minimum Qualifications...Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
2 years' supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications...Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart's accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Primary Location...10900 Ne 4th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, United States of America
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