The Opportunity This is an opportunity to take ownership of one of the most critical engineering domains at Monoova - the technology that powers our core payments platform.

As Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a high-performing team of engineers responsible for building, enhancing and scaling the platforms behind Monoova's account-to-account, scheme, cards, digital assets and broader payment capabilities.

The role combines

people leadership, technical direction and delivery ownership . You’ll work closely with the CTO and wider Product and Technology teams to shape the technical roadmap, set engineering priorities and ensure we continue to deliver secure, resilient and scalable payment solutions.

You’ll play a key role in developing engineering capability across the team — coaching and mentoring engineers, driving high performance and creating an environment where people can do their best work.

With Monoova continuing to scale, you’ll also have the prospect to influence how we evolve our engineering practices, architecture and ways of working, including how we leverage emerging technologies such as

AI-assisted and agentic software development .

If you’re an experienced engineering leader who enjoys staying close to technology while building strong teams and delivering complex, business-critical platforms, this is an opportunity to have a significant impact on the next stage of Monoova’s growth.

Responsibilities and Key Performance Indicators

Develop, execute and operate the core payment platforms technical strategies and roadmaps by overseeing and driving delivery of a comprehensive core payments capability for Monoova's clients

Drive planning and refinement of seasonal goals,



ensuring there is alignment between the Company, group, and teams

Foster a culture of communication, bridging the communication gap between teams, internal stakeholder groups, and wider executive leadership

Invest in working with engineers on growth and development opportunities to help further their skillset and growth, with an ability to deliver relevant and timely feedback (positive & constructive) to help them to continuously improve and learn

Own and manage high-performance team including performance management, hiring.

Help to drive a high-performance and values-aligned culture within the Engineering team.

Adherence to all IT policies and procedures

Support a secure-by-design posture

Support cost management

Completion of all required compliance training and requirements

Specific additional ongoing quarterly goals as agreed with CTO and aligned to company OKRs

Training Requirements for this role

Induction

Line of Business System Briefings

IT Policies & Procedures

IT Systems, Networks & Cloud Infrastructure Security training

Core Payments/Development/Testing system training

Data Processing System training as required (SQL, NoSQL, Event Processing)

What we need from you

Self- starter who can take ownership, collaborate proactively and provide subject matter expertise





Ability to navigate high pressure environment at times

Mature stakeholder managementincluding ability to translate technical terms and outcomes in business consumable information

Organisation and attention to detail is essential to this role

Ability to drive a cross-skilled team and positively influence others.

Qualifications, Experience and Knowledge

Experience with technical and people leadership - having previously led high-performance teams incl. practice lead, engineering manager, or equivalent roles

10+ years professional experience in software development and delivery

Coding proficiency and subject matter expertise of object-oriented and service-oriented development techniques using RESTful interfaces

Expert understanding of relational and non-relational databases in the delivery of API’s and applications, especially Microsoft SQL Server and MongoDB technologies

Expert level knowledge of .NET technologies and C# as well as related testing, debugging and observability tooling/platforms

Experience with Azure cloud services supporting an event-based architecture including Azure APIM, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Service Bus, Azure Key Vault and Azure SQL.

Understanding of the requirements in designing and developing enterprise grade software, especially finance or payments systems.

Payments, banking, and financial industry experience

Experience with source control management systems and continuous integration / deployment environments/GitOps with Azure DevOps, GitHub & ArgoCD

Hands-on experience with the design, development, and deployment of payment software solutions with demons

📌 Engineering Manager (Sydney)
🏢 Monoova Group
📍 Sydney