Google

Software Engineering Manager, Google Payments

Google$207K — $300K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development, specifically in front-end, mobile, or full-stack applications.
  • 3 years of experience in managing software engineering teams, including hiring and coaching.
  • Experience in designing and delivering user-facing features or platform UIs.
  • Experience leading system design, architecture reviews, and enforcing engineering quality standards.
  • Experience working alongside Product Management and UX Design teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of 10 software engineers, focusing on hiring and performance management.
  • Own and manage the Cards UI and Tokenization roadmap to drive outcomes in conversion, latency, and reliability.
  • Build and enhance critical card experiences such as verification and tokenization.
  • Guide architecture and design reviews, while raising the quality of engineering deliverables.
  • Collaborate with diverse teams, including Product Management and UX, to align technical strategies and execute complex initiatives.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare and wellness programs.
  • Retirement savings plan with employer contributions.
  • Paid time off and flexible work schedules.
  • Employee development programs and continuous learning opportunities.
  • Access to various employee resource groups and support networks.
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Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with software development, building front-end, mobile, or full-stack applications.
  • 3 years of experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring and coaching.
  • Experience designing and delivering user-facing features, platform UIs, or web/mobile customer experiences.
  • Experience leading system design, architecture reviews, and engineering quality standards.
  • Experience collaborating with Product Management and UX Design teams.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
  • Experience managing teams that build user-facing product features on Android, iOS, or web.
  • Experience in payments, fintech, commerce, checkout, or other conversion-sensitive user-facing flows.
  • Experience with A/B experimentation, funnel analysis, and building a metrics-driven engineering culture.
  • Experience leading large-scale platform migrations or shipping to global audiences with regulatory and compliance constraints.


About the job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

Join the Forms of Payment (FOPs) UI organization to lead and grow a high-performing team of 10 software engineers.

In this role, you will drive the people and technical direction for Cards UI and Tokenization-the foundational payment experiences powering Google Play, Ads, YouTube, Cloud, and Wallet globally. You will foster an experimentation-first, data-driven engineering culture, balancing strategic technical leadership with direct development expertise to deliver seamless, secure transaction flows to hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

Whether it is paying online with Autofill, using tap and pay in stores, or using the Google Pay app, the Payments team at Google is focused on making payments simple, seamless, and secure. In addition to consumer payment technologies, the Payments team also powers the money movement between Google and its consumers and businesses.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of 10 software engineers, overseeing hiring, career development, and performance management.
  • Own the end-to-end Cards UI and Tokenization roadmap, driving measurable outcomes across conversion, latency, and reliability.
  • Build and optimize critical card experiences, including acquisition, display, verification (3DS2, CVN), and DPAN tokenization flows.
  • Guide system architecture and design reviews, raise engineering quality bars, and lead platform migrations onto next-generation payments infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with Product Management, UX, and partner engineering teams across Google to align technical strategy and execute complex initiatives.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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156,500 employees
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Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
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Revenue
$182.5 billion
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