A natural match if you have 10+ years in quality engineering and experience leading distributed teams.
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Original posting from Boku via Greenhouse
Build the payment infrastructure powering global commerce.
Boku connects billions of consumers to the payment methods they prefer, one market at a time. Our platform connects the world’s leading digital businesses to the local payment methods their customers already use. Spotify, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix and Tencent already run on Boku’s payment infrastructure. We operate across 60+ countries, support 200+ local payment methods and reach 7.5 billion consumer accounts.
With headquarters in London and San Francisco and colleagues working across markets around the world, Boku is global by default. From London to Mumbai, São Paulo to Singapore, our teams collaborate across time zones, markets and cultures to build products for customers around the world.
Join us to solve complex, real-time payment challenges at global scale. We share knowledge freely, take ownership of complexity and look for people who question how things are done and find better ways to build.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced and technically strong Quality Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team of SDETs responsible for delivering quality engineering across critical payment and settlement platforms. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex engineering challenges, leading talented teams, influencing stakeholders across the business, and driving quality at scale. You will operate in a fast-paced environment where priorities evolve, multiple initiatives run in parallel, and collaboration across Product, Engineering, Operations, Security, and Platform teams is essential.
The successful candidate will combine strong people leadership with technical credibility, enabling them to guide automation strategy, make informed decisions in ambiguous situations, and advocate for quality throughout the software development lifecycle. This role requires someone who is comfortable navigating ambiguity, making decisions with incomplete information, and leading teams through rapidly changing priorities.
What You'll Be Doing
Lead and Develop High-Performing Teams
Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of SDETs
Create an environment focused on accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence
Support career development, coaching, performance management, and hiring activities
Drive Quality Engineering Excellence
Define and evolve testing strategies, automation frameworks, and quality practices
Partner with Engineering and Product teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle
Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, automation effectiveness, reliability, and release confidence
Review technical approaches and provide guidance on automation, testing architecture, and quality risks
Manage Complex Programs and Stakeholders
Lead quality initiatives across multiple concurrent projects and workstreams
Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Operations, Security, and Platform teams, influencing decisions and driving alignment
Balance competing priorities and make effective decisions in dynamic, fast-changing environments
Communicate risks, trade-offs, and delivery expectations clearly to stakeholders
Drive Continuous Improvement
Establish and track quality metrics, test effectiveness, automation coverage, and delivery performance
Champion process improvements and engineering best practices
Drive adoption of modern testing approaches, including AI-assisted quality engineering and automation
What We're Looking For
10+ years of experience in Software Testing / Quality Engineering
3+ years of people management experience leading SDET or QA teams
Proven experience leading quality engineering teams within product-based organizations
Strong technical background in test automation, quality engineering, and engineering best practices
Hands-on experience with Java and automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, or similar
Experience testing distributed systems and microservices-based applications
Proven ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities
Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and drive outcomes
Experience with CI/CD, cloud technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS is a plus
FinTech, Payments, Banking, or Settlement domain experience is preferred
Why Join Us?
Work on large-scale global payment platforms
Lead a talented and growing quality engineering team
Influence engineering practices across the organization
Solve complex technical and business challenges
Work in an environment where you can influence strategy, challenge the status quo, and drive meaningful change
If you're a technically credible people leader who thrives in complex environments, enjoys influencing stakeholders, and is passionate about building high-performing teams, we'd love to hear from you.
Source: Boku careers (Greenhouse)