# Engineering Manager, Payments at Qualia

- Company: Qualia
- What the company does: Qualia is the leading digital real estate closing platform. Qualia. Backed by Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.qualia.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Austin, TX
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-05
- Apply by: 2026-11-19
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/qualia/jobs/8247051?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/qualia-engineering-manager-payments/

## About the role

We are hiring an entrepreneurial hands-on Engineering Manager to lead Qualia’s Payments team. This is a builder/player/coach role, and you won’t just run a team - you’ll redesign how a modern Engineering Payments team operates when AI can do the first pass on nearly everything we used to do by hand. As an Engineering Manager, Payments, you've been in the fintech industry for a while and have a proven track record of success. You are comfortable leading complex, high-liability projects. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Serve as a hands-on Engineering Manager (Player/Coach) to build the payments team
- Design, build, and maintain systems that process ACH and wire transfers at scale (billions of dollars annually), including origination, settlement, reconciliation, and exception handling
- Build and harden payment-processing pipelines that integrate with banking partners, payment rails, and third-party financial APIs
- Implement controls for wire fraud prevention, transaction verification, and anomaly detection alongside our security and compliance teams
- Improve and extend core web applications (frontend and backend) that support escrow accounting and closing-day money movement
- Own architectural decisions for payments infrastructure, including data integrity, idempotency, retry/failure handling, and audit logging

Tags: Engineering - Core

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/qualia-engineering-manager-payments/