Application Engineering Manager

ABOUT THIS POSITION

The Payments Application Engineering Manager will lead a team of highly skilled engineers focused on building and maintaining Fin Tech solutions, including real‑time payment APIs, batch processing systems, and integrations with banking and other payment processing platforms. This role combines technical leadership with people management to deliver secure, scalable, and innovative financial technology products.

Personnel Management:

• Manage day‑to‑day activities of the engineering team, including resource allocation and project timelines.
• Conduct performance evaluations, goal setting, and career development planning.
• Mentor engineers to grow technical and leadership skills; foster a culture of innovation and accountability.
• Establish training programs tailored to individual development needs.
• Manage and actively participate in the on‑call rotation to ensure timely response to production issues, maintain system reliability, and minimize downtime.

Technical Leadership:

• Oversee architecture, development, and testing of full‑stack applications and payment processing systems.
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, security protocols, and compliance requirements for financial transactions.
• Collaborate with product owners to define priorities and deliver features aligned with business goals.
• Drive continuous improvement in SDLC maturity and engineering best practices.

Cross‑Functional

Collaboration:

• Partner with Product, Operations and other cross functional teams to ensure high‑quality releases and rapid issue resolution.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to align technical solutions with strategic objectives.

Additional duties as assigned.

• 3+ years experience managing a software development team
• 5+ years programming experience (PHP, Go, Python preferred)
• 3+ years experience in Payments/Fintech industry
• Experience with Relational Databases (MySQL preferred)
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Google Cloud)
• Experience utilizing AI to increase velocity for development teams
• Experience with Unit and Integration Testing Methodologies
• Experience building highly scalable software solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment & welcome change
• Highly self‑motivated
• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience

Through a smart platform and better experience, Waystar helps providers simplify healthcare payments and yield powerful results throughout the complete revenue cycle.

Waystar’s healthcare payments platform combines innovative, cloud‑based technology, robust data, and unparalleled client support to streamline workflows and improve financials so providers can focus on what matters most: their patients and communities. Waystar is trusted by 1M+ providers, 1K+ hospitals and health systems, and is connected to over 5K commercial and/Medicare payers. We are deeply committed to living out our organizational values: honesty;

kindness; passion; curiosity; fanatical focus; best work, always; making it happen; and joyful, optimistic & fun.

Waystar products have won multiple Best in KLAS® or Category Leader awards since 2010 and earned multiple #1 rankings from Black Book™ surveys since 2012. The Waystar platform supports more than 500,000 providers, 1,000 health systems and hospitals, and 5,000 payers and health plans. For more information, visit  or follow @Waystar () on Twitter.

• Competitive total rewards (base salary + bonus, if applicable)
• Customizable benefits package (3 medical plans with Health Saving Account company match)
• We offer generous paid time off for our non‑exempt team members, starting with 3 weeks + 13 paid holidays, including 2 personal floating holidays. We also offer flexible time off for our exempt team members + 13 paid holidays
• Paid parental leave (including maternity + paternity leave)
• Education assistance opportunities and free Linked In Learning access
• Free mental health and family planning programs, including adoption assistance and fertility support
• 401(K) program with company match
• Pet insurance
• Employee resource groups

Waystar is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate, value, and support diversity and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Job Category: Technology/Engineering

Job Type: Full time

Req : R2912