Senior Manager, Applications System Development
About this role
Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.
Ready to take your career global?
Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Software Development Manager to join our ever-evolving Engineering Platform – Global API team and help lead the delivery of secure, scalable, and high-performing API-driven global payment solutions.
What you’ll own
We are looking for a technically grounded Software Development Manager to lead delivery for modern backend and API-driven solutions across our global payment processing platforms.
In this role, you will combine API domain expertise, strong people management, delivery ownership, and Agile execution. You will manage and develop engineering talent, partner with product and architecture teams, drive Scrum ceremonies and delivery planning, and ensure teams follow strong engineering practices across CI/CD, testing, security, reliability, and operational excellence.
What you’ll bring
Years of Experience: 12+ years of professional technology experience, including strong exposure to backend/API platforms and at least 3+ years managing engineering teams, delivery ownership, or people leadership responsibilities.
People Management: Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop engineers; manage performance, priorities, and career growth; build accountability; and create a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.
API and Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of API design, RESTful services, microservices, integration patterns, API gateways, authentication, authorization, security policies, and scalable backend platform delivery.
CI/CD and Engineering Practices: Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, release management, code quality controls, secure development practices, observability, production support, and continuous improvement across engineering teams.
Scrum and Delivery Management: Strong experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, dependency management, and predictable delivery tracking.
Stakeholder Communication and Ownership: Excellent communication skills with the ability to align engineering, product, architecture, operations, and business stakeholders on priorities, risks, trade-offs, timelines, and delivery outcomes.
It’s a bonus if you have
Payments or Fintech Domain: Experience working in payments, banking, fintech, or other high-volume transaction processing environments, with exposure to security, compliance, and operational resilience expectations.
Apigee and API Management Platforms: Hands-on experience with Apigee Edge, Apigee X, or similar API management platforms, including API proxy design, policies, traffic management, security, monitoring, and operational support, along with exposure to cloud-native application delivery.
Leadership and Team Development: Experience hiring, onboarding, mentoring, succession planning, improving team operating models, and helping teams adopt modern Agile and DevOps practices.
About the team
Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.
What makes a Globalpayer?
Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.
Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer. Apply now to take your career global.
Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. If you wish to request reasonable accommodations related to applying for employment or provide feedback about the accessibility of this website, please contact jobs@globalpayments.com.
Company at a glance
Global Payments (NYSE: GPN) is a leading payment technology and software company that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes worldwide. We help businesses grow with confidence by delivering innovative solutions that enable seamless payment acceptance, smarter operations and exceptional client experiences – online, in store and everywhere in between. With its global reach, local expertise and scale, Global Payments manages trillions in payments volume and billions of transactions across more than 175 countries.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Global Payments is a Fortune 500® company and a member of the S&P 500. Learn more at company.globalpayments.com and follow Global Payments on X (@globalpayinc), LinkedIn and Facebook.
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