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Director Engineering at Nium in Malta
Job Description
Nium provides global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments. We were founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. Our platform enables banks, fintechs, and global businesses to move money instantly, everywhere.
Co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore with offices in 14 markets worldwide, we are entering one of the most exciting chapters in our journey. In March 2026, we delivered the largest month in our 11-year history with record revenue, record volumes, and EBITDA profitability. Today, Nium moves nearly $60B in payments annually, almost entirely for enterprises, while continuing to strengthen an already healthy balance sheet.
It is an incredible time to join us, and we are only just getting started.
Our payout network spans 190+ countries and 100 currencies, with 100 + corridors in real time. We power seamless transfers to accounts, wallets, and cards, support local collections in 35 markets, and as a principal card issuer on Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and UATP, Nium issues over 50 million card tokens every year. Backed by regulatory licenses in 40+ markets, we make it simple for our partners to onboard, integrate, and scale globally. This scale and innovation have earned us recognition as one of CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025, winner of Best Cross-Border Payments Solution at the PayTech Awards, and inclusion in FXC Intelligence’s Top 100 Cross-Border Payments Companies list.
In 2024, we raised US$50 million in Series E funding at a US$1.4 billion valuation to accelerate network expansion, product innovation, and talent growth. With the B2B payments market projected to hit US$175 trillion by 2030, Nium offers ambitious builders the chance to shape the future of global money movement with the scale of a leader and the energy of a high-growth company.
About the Role
As the Director of Engineering for Card Issuing, you will lead the engineering organization that builds and runs our card issuing product. You will own engineering vision, architecture and delivery across product development, quality assurance, release management, reliability engineering and process automation.
You will be a key strategic partner to our Global business, shaping how we build and deliver software and growing the people who do it. You will work closely with product, business and customer-facing leaders to make sure engineering stays aligned with where the company is going.
What You Will Do
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Architect for Scale & Reliability: Partner with our senior technical architect to shape our architectural direction and engineering vision for Card Issuing. Build and operate foundational, mission-critical, high-availability distributed systems, ensuring fault tolerance and operational excellence at every layer.
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Elevate Engineering Rigor: Raise the bar for technical excellence. Bring deep technical expertise to architectural design discussions, setting standards for code quality, SLOs, and platform scalability.
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Modernize Development: Champion and integrate modern development processes, heavily leveraging AI co-pilots and GenAI tools to accelerate engineering velocity, automate testing, and improve overall operational efficiency.
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Lead Distributed Teams: Hire, develop, and inspire high-performing engineering teams, first-line engineering managers, and program managers distributed across multiple global geographies.
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End-to-End Ownership: Be accountable for the full delivery lifecycle: from architecture through production, QA, release management, and site operations (you build it, you run it).
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Drive Strategic Alignment: Balance long-term architectural vision with near-term market needs. Partner with business leaders to keep engineering fully aligned with company strategy, stepping into product discussions when necessary.
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Optimize Execution: Cultivate a culture of high standards, innovation, and execution. Ensure every part of the engineering organization runs at peak productivity, managing departmental operating budgets and investment planning.
What You Bring
Must-have
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10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 4+ years managing and growing engineering teams, including senior leaders and managers.
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Proven experience designing, building, operating, and scaling mission-critical, high-availability, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
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Uncompromising focus on technical excellence and deep technical expertise—you are highly comfortable guiding hands-on technical work, collaborating on long-term architecture (e.g., Java , Spring Boot, PostgreSQL/MySQL, AWS EKS, and Docker/Kubernetes microservices), and framing technical trade-offs.
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Track record of successfully managing, motivating, and scaling engineering teams across distributed global geographies.
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Deep familiarity with modern software lifecycles, including a proven history of integrating AI co-pilots and developer productivity tools into the engineering workflow.
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An innate "startup hustle"—you thrive in fast-paced, high-stakes environments and operate with a deep sense of urgency to drive outcomes.
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Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business outcomes for non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
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Direct experience in fintech, specifically working on card issuing platforms, payments infrastructure, or other highly regulated environments.
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Experience building and formalizing engineering practices in a rapidly scaling company.
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Familiarity with digital assets, stablecoin integration, or cross-border payment flows.
We know that great candidates don't always check every box. If this role excites you and you bring part of what we're looking for, we'd encourage you to apply.