Application Manager

Technical Engineering/Application Manager

We are looking for a Technical Engineering/Application Manager to serve as the manager of our Card Installments technology team. This person will lead an agile development team focused on building Installments product capabilities that will be built on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and that provide integrations (like RESTful APIs for our customer‑facing mobile application and all back‑end systems) needed to process Installments.

• Provide technical leadership, management, and hands‑on delivery for a Java development team that builds and supports our Installments ecosystem.
  • The application is highly available and handles high‑volume installment payment origination, processing, and settlement capabilities for customer and colleague‑facing front‑end user interface applications.
• Provide technical leadership to the development team with design direction, code reviews, and unit testing direction.
• Diagnose root causes to complex technical problems such as performance, availability, internal and external application integrations, database, middleware (web server, application server, MQ), network, etc.
• Provide Level‑3 production support 24/7/365 spread across the team.
• Research and facilitate the monitoring, high‑availability, and support methodology for our production environment.
• Ensure that all development team deliverables are planned and completed, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, estimates, detailed design, development, unit/automated testing, defect fixes, implementation planning/execution, change controls, and production support/incident resolution.
• Track and report on the development team’s progress completing deliverables (code, documentation, grooming, etc.) using systems like ADO.
• Provide hands‑on development to team members to ensure deliverables are completed.
• Drive staffing decisions and activity for the development team (recruiting, engagement with HR/suppliers/vendors, interviewing, candidate selection, onboarding, etc.).
• Provide partnership and guidance to testers, analysts, and stakeholders.
• Maintain evergreen system documentation containing design content, developer guidelines, onboarding procedures, and troubleshooting guides.

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 7 years of hands‑on development using Java EE technologies that provide web services, incoming/outgoing file processing, and user interface capabilities.
• 3 years of leadership experience, including management experience.
• Hands‑on depth with Bigtable, Cloud Run, Dataflow/Apache Beam, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, CI/CD on (GCP) Google Cloud Platform or similar cloud technologies (AWS/Azure).
• Proven expertise building operational data stores, event‑driven architectures, and data quality controls.
• Strong grounding in SRE/Dev Ops practices and a security‑first mindset.

• Cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure) and/or IaC (Terraform) certifications and/or work experience.
• Payments Originations and Servicing processing background in one or more of the following:
  Debit, Credit, Installments.
• Spring Boot, GIT, Maven, Jenkins, JSON & SOAP XML.
• Excellent communication, design, documentation, analytical, and SDLC skills.
• 3 years delivering software using agile methodologies.
• Experience using monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Zenoss, Splunk, and log files to evaluate the health of mission‑critical production applications and to identify root causes for performance and functional issues.

Yes (not eligible for overtime pay).

Office. Our approach to office workplace type combines the best of both worlds: in‑office and work‑from‑home. Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. The approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter.

Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

77,000.00 –  USD annual. The compensation range represents the low and high end of the base compensation range for this position. Actual compensation may vary…