Engineering Manager (Payments Platform).
Engineering Team Manager – iGaming Payment Platforms
- Form part of an international iGaming organisation
- Lead high-impact engineering teams across the payment platform
- Drive technical strategy, scalability, and product excellence
- Hybrid in Stockholm
- Full-time, Permanent
- Salary: Circa €100K (depending on experience)
A leading and well-established iGaming company is seeking an Engineering Team Manager to oversee technical strategy and execution across platform and payment domains. This is a senior leadership opportunity for someone who thrives in high-traffic, performance-critical environments and is passionate about building resilient systems, scalable architectures, and high-performing engineering teams.
This role combines hands-on technical competence with strategic leadership. You will shape technical direction, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate closely with product, compliance, and payment stakeholders to deliver best-in-class gaming experiences.
Your Role
- Set the technical vision and engineering roadmap across multiple product and payment platform verticals
- Lead, mentor, and scale engineering teams across backend, integration, frontend, and DevOps
- Guide teams responsible for secure, stable, and compliant payment flows across markets and providers
- Partner closely with senior product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, high-availability technical solutions
- Drive excellence in code quality, architecture, test automation, and operational reliability
- Establish engineering best practices across development, testing, deployment, and incident management
- Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders and external payment partners
- Promote a culture of accountability, ownership, continuous improvement, and technical innovation
- Oversee hiring, capability development, and performance management for hybrid and distributed teams
What You Bring
- 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including at least 2+ years in technical leadership or engineering management
- Strong understanding of payment integrations, APIs, and transaction-processing systems (advantageous but not mandatory)
- Proven ability to manage and scale engineering teams in complex, high-availability environments
- Deep knowledge of modern engineering practices, including microservices, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and event-driven architecture (Kafka, Redis, or similar)
- Experience working within agile, product-led organisations
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and business domains
- Structured, proactive mindset with a drive to simplify, optimise, and improve engineering processes
- Background in iGaming, fintech, sports betting, or other high-throughput transaction systems is strongly preferred
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