Job Description

Afterpay is looking for an engineering leader to drive our Merchant APIs, products and integrations. This platform is the core engine that orchestrates billions of dollars/year between Afterpay, our merchants and our consumers. It sits at the intersection of omnichannel retail payments, risk management, and user data. 

This role requires expertise in building out mission-critical systems at scale that can evolve quickly with our rapidly growing business.  Additionally, we are looking for leaders with a proven record of building world-class engineering teams that focus on scalability, flexibility, and most importantly resilience and anti-fragility.   

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to lead the core foundational area that powers one of the world’s largest payment networks and make a direct, tangible impact on Afterpay’s growth and success.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead the technical roadmap for our Merchant engineering teams
• Architect and own large-scale and complex systems that facilitate consumer orders from our merchants
• Ensure our platform and infrastructure is scalable, reliable and extensible for both internal and external users
• Build and lead engineering teams on multiple continent
• Mentor and develop senior engineering talent
• Working closely with our cross-functional teams consisting of designers, product managers, and QA in an agile, fast-paced environment

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Engineering leadership experience
• Experience architecting and executing large-scale, performant systems that are critical to the business
• Skilled at working to build alignment, drive decision making, and communicate transparently
• Able to marry long-term thinking with short-term action
• Execution mindset and the ability to deliver with cross-functional teams that are globally distributed
• Led multiple teams and managers within a high-growth organization
• Delivered products used by millions of people
• Experience building and maintaining a culture of technical excellence, meritocracy, and accountability across large teams
• Experience leading organizations across multiple time zones and countries