PayIt is a fast-growing GovTech company on a mission to modernize how residents interact and transact with government, improving the customer experience and helping our client agencies more efficiently and effectively achieve their missions. Our easy-to-implement platform consolidates government services and payments into one connected experience and enables our clients to drive resident trust, collect revenue quickly, and redeploy their staff to more important challenges. This innovative approach to government service delivery has garnered significant recognition in both the public and private sectors, including our inclusion in the GovTech 100 every year since 2017. PayIt solutions cover services including hunting and fishing licensing, DMV, courts, property tax, utilities, tolling, and more.
Our culture welcomes people who exhibit what we call “PayIt DNA”: High integrity, drive, grit, high aptitude, and team orientation. We are collaborative and passionate about the work we do to improve the lives of our government clients and the end users they serve. We have ambitious scaling goals, and we look for team members who are ready to roll up their sleeves, solve problems, and find new opportunities to win with our clients. And we have a lot of fun together.
About The Role:
Directors of Software Engineering at PayIt are smart, mission-driven, and afforded a high degree of responsibility and autonomy. We hold ourselves to high standards, always looking to improve our skills, our platform, and our offering to our clients. We are driven by the fact that we’re building a meaningful product and solving exciting technical challenges that impact the lives of everyday people like you and me. Directors of Software Engineering are expected to expertly lead teams to meet commitments, grow individuals in their careers, and be highly collaborative with adjacent product, design, and client-facing teams.
This role is ideally based out of our Kansas City WHQ; however, highly qualified remote candidates in AZ, AR, FL, GA, IA, IL, KS, MI, MO, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI will also be considered.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Build and maintain an organization of 3 or more Software Engineering teams, including high-performing managers and individual contributors.
- Consume top-level organizational goals and lead the development of Engineering objectives and key results to align and support the business.
- Work closely with engineering, product, and senior leaders to define and execute on the product and technical roadmaps, balancing speed of delivery with quality, security, and observability.
- Lead development of engineering strategy to include technical roadmaps and intentional decisions around vendor and tech stack selections.
- Guide Engineering Managers through the process of screening, interviewing, and hiring new talent.
- Set goals with and provide regular, constructive feedback to Engineering Managers and mentor them in doing the same for their team members.
- Collaboratively set and ensure adherence to Engineering standards and processes.
- Coach teams to think strategically and make informed recommendations on how to prioritize and solve complex problems.
What You’ll Need To Have:
- 10+ years experience working on distributed software systems.
- 6+ years of experience leading teams and managing individual contributors.
- Intrinsic motivation to develop people and influence outcomes.
- Outstanding communication, presentation, and teamwork skills.
- Strong emotional intelligence and ability to manage conflicts with individuals and teams.
- Deep understanding of best practices and industry standards for performance, encryption, security, scalability, accessibility, and availability in distributed systems.
- Proven ability to influence decisions while respecting individual motivations and business objectives.
- Interest in innovating within the global payments industry.
Bonus Points For:
- A proven history of managing successful, autonomous development teams.
- Experience managing remote and/or hybrid engineering organizations.
- An ability to attract talented engineers from an established network of professionals
- Experience with financial, accounting, or payments systems.
- Experience building reliable systems that handle large transactional volume.
Why Work For Us:
- Our mission matters. Your work will make life better for our government agency clients and the millions of residents they serve.
- You’ll do some of the best work of your career here. We tackle complex challenges that are interesting to solve, and you’ll grow a ton working at PayIt
- People are our most important resource. Everyone has a voice. Collaboration is our default setting. And we have fun together.
- We #payitforward with our corporate volunteer program, serving the communities where we work and live.
- Competitive salaries, excellent benefits, flexible working arrangements, and all the resources you will need to do your best work.
What We Care About:
We hire high aptitude, high integrity people who are great communicators and want to be part of a growing team.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
PayIt is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law.
PayIt is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an email to the People Operations Team and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
NOTE: U.S. Citizens and all those authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to provide sponsorship in the United States at this time. PayIt participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here. Canadian Citizens and those authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship are also encouraged to apply.
To all recruitment agencies: PayIt does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our careers’ alias, PayIt employees or any other company location. PayIt is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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