Senior Director, Engineering Payments

Who We Are:  We are a national, innovative, high-growth software company devoted to K12 education administration. Our products beat the competition by focusing on all business operations of K12 schools, including both financial and school nutrition management. We have a deep understanding of K12 school systems and regulations, with a focus on providing creative, integrated and user-friendly solutions supported by excellent customer service. Our workforce is talented, loyal, dedicated and highly enthusiastic. This is a fantastic career opportunity for the right individual.  

We offer challenging work in a team environment. We respect each other and collaborate for continuous improvement. We are the experts in our product lines and we anticipate the needs of our customers. Our customers say we work efficiently and always strive to provide the proper solution. We have achieved this by building relationships based upon: expertise, patience, attentiveness, clear positive communication, tenacity, and a calm presence.    LINQ is on a mission to empower central office heroes who make K-12 districts and schools stronger. LINQ improves efficiency, optimizes performance, and manages compliance through its suite of administrative, financial, and nutritional solutions; allowing administrators to make a bigger impact for their staff, students, and communities. LINQ is the first company to deliver a full suite of integrated solutions to manage operations at the state, district, and school levels. LINQ has helped over 30,000 schools and served over 17 million students to increase K-12 potential. 

LINQ’s Values:  • Act with Integrity & Build Trust: Trust is the foundation of our company. We operate with the highest standards of integrity, both internally and externally. We believe in transparency, honesty, and accountability. Building a culture where trust is earned and maintained.  • Deliver Excellence: We consistently exceed our clients’ expectations. In every interaction, we strive to anticipate needs, provide swift solutions, and go the extra mile to relentlessly impress our customers. We communicate clearly, consistently, and in a timely way to cultivate lasting relationships.  • Embrace Challenges: We embrace a growth mindset. Challenges offer opportunities to learn, grow, and improve. Continuous learning keeps us relevant and effective to ensure our solutions remain on the leading edge of innovation.  • Collaborate & Act as One Team: Diverse skills, ideas, and perspectives are our strength. Through open communication, shared goals, and a spirit of unity and mutual respect, we collaborate to achieve excellence, drive innovation, and propel our company forward as a cohesive force. 

About The Team: LINQ is at the forefront of EdTech where innovation meets practicality. We are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of engineering excellence and are in search of a Senior Director, Engineering on our Payments team.

About The Position: The ideal candidate will lead the strategy and execution of Payment Applications and Infrastructure for our software suite. The candidate will have deep technical acumen to oversee and expand our payment systems and the leadership skills to cultivate and direct our team of engineers. 

What You'll Be Doing: • Lead strategy and direction as well as drive excellence in the Payment Infrastructure space.  • Lead the execution of technology strategy and vision with an emphasis on delivering transformational change.  • Lead the design, development, and maintenance of payment processing systems, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability.  • Oversee the health of our payment processing environments through operational leadership of our external and internal payment platforms.  • Maintain core payment infrastructure that supports customer-facing environments.  • Manage and own both production and non-production environments for use in payment processing, debugging, and testing.  • Diagnose and correct issues related to health, reliability, and scale to address customer-impacting issues.  • Leveraging a DevOps mindset to build quality products and consistent deployments. 

What We Are Looking For: • 7+ years of experience in payment systems engineering or a related field.  • 5+ years of experience in a leadership role, managing and developing engineering teams.  • Expertise building, managing, and supporting mission-critical and high-volume cloud native applications.  • A versatile leader that can lead strategic discussions and execute technical activities in the same afternoon.  • Experience working with card networks, card processors, and payment gateways, and mobile payment services.  • Familiarity with machine learning and data analytics as they relate to payment systems and anomaly detection. 

What Will Make You Stand Out; • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar engineering discipline. • Experience with mobile payment solutions and digital wallets.  • Strong knowledge of payment processing technologies (protocols, and standards (e.g., PCI-DSS, EMV,). 

Travel Requirements: Less than 10%