About the Job
Director, Engineering – Merchant & Payments
Deep experience leading large scale engineering organisations across payments, merchant platforms or digital commerce, with expertise in modern payments architecture.
Shape the future of payments and AI powered commerce, leading the technology strategy behind one of Zip's most critical platforms.
Required Skills & Abilities
Zipsters work on a broad range of initiatives, and our skills and experiences all look a little different. What really matters to us is that you're a great fit with our four Values, and have a desire to learn and grow.
So whether you meet some or all of the desirable attributes below, we'd still love to hear from you.
Extensive leadership experience building and scaling engineering organisations within fintech, payments, digital commerce or marketplace businesses.
Deep expertise across modern payments architecture, including payment orchestration, tokenisation, acquiring, fraud, trust, clearing and settlement.
Experience defining technology strategy that balances long term platform evolution with commercial outcomes.
Strong knowledge of cloud native architectures and distributed systems, with experience guiding engineering organisations at enterprise scale.
Experience applying AI to improve customer experiences, merchant capabilities or engineering productivity.
Demonstrated success leading Engineering Managers and senior technology leaders while building inclusive, high performing cultures.
Strong commercial acumen with the ability to influence executive stakeholders across Technology, Product and the broader business.
Experience working with modern engineering technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes and microservices architectures.
A passion for innovation, continuous improvement and building engineering teams that thrive through change.
A mindset that embraces AI and new tools to adapt, learn and grow.
An aptitude for identifying and managing risks. Whether you are a People Manager or an Individual Contributor, we are all leaders at Zip, therefore effective risk management is important to how we run our business and part of all our roles.
Our values in your DNA: Customer First, Own It, Stronger Together and Change the Game
As we write this next exciting chapter in our story, we will continue to move at pace and embrace change. For you, this might mean opportunities to learn new skills with hands-on experience, broader responsibilities, or the buzz of seeing your work impact customers faster.
Zip is a place where you’ll get out exactly what you put in. When you join the team, we'll do our best to make sure you can be yourself and surround yourself with smart, friendly colleagues and leaders who have your back, so that you can make the big things happen.
Zipsters tell us these are just some of the best things about working here. You’ll also receive:
25 days paid leave annually, including birthday leave and quarterly wellbeing days
16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers, and 4 weeks for supporting carers
Family support policies including miscarriage bereavement leave and domestic violence leave
Mental health and wellness initiatives, including $299 annual wellbeing allowance, free access for you and family members to our EAP service Sonder, discounted private health insurance, and great rates on fitness sessions through ClassPass
2 days paid volunteering leave per year
Access to the Flare Benefits Hub and Novated Leasing for savings across lifestyle, essentials and wellbeing
Fee-free Zip products, and discounts with Zip merchant partners
Team social events, epic offices, free breakfast daily, and weekly free lunches
