Engineering Manager - AI Payments App
BjakInsurance Comparison company
United KingdomManager
BASS Investment
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead a high-performing engineering team building and scaling AI-powered payment applications.
- •KIRA's mission is to make money smart, reliable, and within reach for everyone, expanding into spending, saving, investing, and more with AI-driven tools.
- •They are seeking talented individuals passionate about building next-generation financial applications.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead and manage a team of engineers across frontend, backend, and full-stack development.
- •Own engineering delivery for major product areas, ensuring speed and quality.
- •Drive technical architecture and engineering decisions across various systems.
- •Develop engineers through feedback, coaching, and performance management.
- •Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, speed, and technical excellence.
- •Requirements Strong software engineering background with experience building production systems.
- •Experience leading or managing software engineers and owning engineering delivery.
- •Strong technical depth across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
- •Comfortable reviewing technical designs, challenging engineering decisions, and debugging complex issues.
- •Strong people leadership with the ability to coach engineers and build high-performing teams.
Required skills
Engineering ManagementPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsReactPostgreSQLAWSDockerKubernetesGitLinuxREST APIOpenAI APIAnthropic API
Nice-to-have skills
Gemini APILangChain
Domain expertise
fintechai
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsReactPostgreSQLAWSDockerKubernetesGitLinuxREST APIOpenAI APIAnthropic APIGemini APILangChain