Temp Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Missouri

The Engineering Manager will lead the technical direction, team development, and delivery of payment integration solutions, ensuring systems remain scalable, secure, and reliable while supporting global business needs.

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and performance development.
• Define and drive the technical strategy for payment integrations, APIs, and backend systems.
• Own architectural decisions related to integration patterns, microservices, event-driven systems, and payment infrastructure.
• Guide engineers through complex technical challenges and provide hands-on support when needed.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices around API design, testing, security, performance, and maintainability.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Backend, Payments, and other cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business objectives.
• Ensure systems are scalable, resilient, well-documented, and capable of supporting enterprise-level transaction volumes.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, technical planning, and engineering decision-making.
• Improve engineering processes by introducing effective agile practices and delivery frameworks.
• Drive the adoption of AI-assisted development practices, including automated testing, code generation, and LLM-based engineering workflows.
• Support the team in building secure payment solutions that meet reliability and compliance expectations.
• Act as a technical leader who balances business priorities, engineering quality, and long-term platform evolution.

The ideal candidate is an experienced engineering leader with strong backend development expertise, payment infrastructure knowledge, and the ability to build and scale distributed engineering teams.

• Proven experience managing and developing engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to make architectural decisions and prioritize competing initiatives.
• Experience working in payments, fintech, financial infrastructure, or teams responsible for payment integrations.
• Deep understanding of payment systems, including PSP integrations, transaction flows, network tokens, routing, and optimization strategies.
• Strong backend engineering background with experience in Java, Golang, Kotlin, or similar programming languages.
• Solid knowledge of microservices architectures, APIs, event-driven systems, and integration design patterns.
• Experience working with SQL and relational databases.
• Understanding of secure software development practices and OWASP principles.
• Experience establishing standards for AI-assisted software development, automated testing, and LLM-powered engineering workflows.
• Experience delivering software in agile environments with a pragmatic approach to processes.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Advanced English proficiency required.
• Strong ownership mindset, problem-solving ability, and passion for building reliable systems at scale.

• Fully remote opportunity with the flexibility to work from anywhere in Europe.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Home office allowance to help create an ideal remote workspace.
• Company-provided work equipment.
• Stock option program.
• Health insurance coverage regardless of location.
• Flexible paid time off and adaptable work schedule.
• Opportunity to work on global payment infrastructure and solve complex engineering challenges.
• Collaborative international environment with strong ownership and autonomy.