Director of Engineering - Payments
About the Role
We’re looking for a Director of Engineering, Payments to lead the teams that power Storable’s cross-product payment platform and related shared services used by products across our ecosystem.
Strategy & Ownership
Own the engineering strategy and roadmap for payments used by the Storage vertical, aligned to company and product goals.
Define and drive a platform-first approach: build shared capabilities once and scale them across products and verticals.
Partner with Product, Architecture, and Security to define long-term Architecture and Design.
Delivery & Execution
Lead multiple teams to deliver high-impact initiatives across the payment verticle
Establish clear execution plans, milestones, and success metrics; ensure teams hit commitments while managing risk and trade-offs.
Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to design integration patterns, migration plans, and rollout strategies that minimize customer disruption.
Engineering Excellence & Operations
Own the operational health of platform services (availability, performance, incident response, SLAs)
Drive secure-by-default engineering practices and are financially compliant (e.g., payments-adjacent, PCI-impacted, SOC2 expectations)
Raise the bar on reliability, observability, and resilience, including on-call practices, runbooks, and post-incident learning.
Partner with Security to evaluate and mitigate platform risks, including abuse, privilege escalation, and integration misuse.
People Leadership
Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing group of engineering managers and senior ICs, including career growth, coaching, and performance management.
Build a healthy, inclusive team culture that values accountability, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.
Shape hiring plans and partner with Talent/HR to recruit exceptional engineering talent in both US and international locations.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Act as the primary engineering counterpart for Product and PMO on Payment.
Represent Payment in architecture reviews, quarterly planning, and portfolio trade-off discussions, clearly articulating impact, risk, and dependencies.
Communicate status, risks, and decisions to executive stakeholders in a clear, concise, and data-informed way.
What We’re Looking For
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in engineering leadership (managing managers and/or multiple teams).
- Proven track record owning platform or shared services in a multi-product B2B SaaS environment (e.g., payments, identity/SSO, permissions, access control, security-sensitive services).
- Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-team migrations or platformization efforts (e.g., consolidating multiple legacy services into a shared platform).
- Strong technical background in modern cloud architectures (microservices, APIs, event-driven systems) and familiarity with secure coding practices.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience working directly with senior product and business leaders.
- Experience working with AI tooling (i.e. Claude Code, Github CoPilot)
Preferred Experience
- Experience in payments-adjacent, compliance-heavy, or security-sensitive domains (e.g., PCI, SOC2, HIPAA-like environments).
- Background working with multi-tenant enterprise customers, particularly around enterprise SSO, delegated administration, and granular permissions.
- Experience leading distributed teams (onshore/offshore) and scaling organizations through change.
- Prior experience in property management, fintech, or similar vertical SaaS is a plus, but not required.
Benefits and Perks
- Generous health coverage for you and your family, including fully paid short- and long-term disability coverage and two-times base salary life insurance.
- 401(k) match after 60 days, 100% vested after 1 year.
- Employer contribution to your HSA, plus an HRA to help offset your deductible.
- Instant access to flexible vacation. We trust you, so we have a 'take what you need' vacation policy.
- Be More – company rewards and recognition that add up and can be redeemed for personalized gifts and experiences!