Director Of Engineering

Auckland | Hybrid

• Lead multiple engineering teams through a major platform evolution

• Shape the future of payments, data, and AI-enabled product capability

• Influence technical direction at scale

Lead a high-scale product platform at the intersection of payments, data, and AI-enabled product evolution.

This is a role for an engineering leader who wants real influence — over platform direction, technical decision-making, and how an already strong engineering organisation evolves into its next phase. You’ll lead experienced engineering leaders across a platform environment where reliability, transaction integrity, product quality, and pace all matter. You’ll help shape technical direction, improve decision-making, and strengthen how Engineering and Product work together.

There is meaningful work ahead:

• evolving payments capability

• improving reporting and reconciliation experiences

• strengthening platform and data foundations for smarter product capability

• helping teams make better architectural and sequencing decisions

• supporting AI-powered customer insight and natural-language experiences

• helping engineering teams adopt modern, AI-assisted ways of working responsibly and effectively

This is an opportunity to help an already capable engineering organisation investing in what AI makes possible — in the product, in the data layer, and in how engineering works

Why this role will appeal:

You’ll have the space to:

• lead through strong managers and senior engineers

• influence architecture, sequencing, and platform evolution

• partner deeply with Product on roadmap realism and trade-offs

• support the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices without losing quality, judgement, or trust

• reduce friction, lift clarity, and improve delivery confidence

We’re looking for someone who brings:

• leadership of multiple engineering teams through other leaders

• experience in payments, billing, fintech, or other transaction-heavy platforms

• strong technical judgement across platform evolution, architecture, reliability, and scale

• real Product partnership, not stakeholder management from the sidelines

• curiosity about where software engineering is going, including AI-enabled product and engineering capability

• a calm, credible style that builds trust and alignment quickly

The kind of leader who will do well here:

You’re thoughtful, clear, and commercially aware.
You know how to guide without over-controlling.
You can challenge ideas without creating noise.
You bring enough technical depth to be respected, and enough leadership maturity to help others do their best work.

Why it’s worth a conversation:

This is a genuine chance to shape platform direction, coach excellent people, and help lead the next phase of growth in a business where engineering quality really matters.

If you’re looking for a role with real influence, strong peers, meaningful scale, and hard problems worth solving, let’s talk. 

Pushpay is a high-growth New Zealand SaaS business that is spread between offices in Auckland, NZ and the United States. We help organisations and communities come together and stay connected through our suite of mobile apps, management software and giving technology. Our teams of Software Engineers, SRE’s, QA's, UX and Product Managers work closely together to deliver value to our customers as the leading provider of mobile apps and giving technology to churches, schools, and nonprofits.

We love our culture. If you join us, there will be lots of mutual respect, brainstorming, idea generations, blameless postmortems, brainfood learning sessions, and recognition for your accomplishments and impact on our product. You will be heard, your opinion understood, your input valued, and your knowledge respected as you work with a team of high-calibre people with a drive to do-it-well.

We have a passion for making all employees feel supported. In addition to having a genuine interest in helping you do your best work and drive your career, we offer:

• Training: $3,000 annual training/conference allowance for your personal development
• Hybrid Work Model: We aim to offer a healthy work/life balance with flexible hours and the option to work from home 2 days a week
• Kiwisaver
• Parental Leave: Our paid parental leave policy offers primary & secondary caregiver leave, and we also have no leave override for those returning to work after parental leave, meaning you'll be paid at your full rate for annual holidays. 
• Sick Leave: You'll automatically get 10 days sick leave per year upon starting (no 6 month wait period!)
• Advanced gear
• Healthy food & drink options
• Free annual flu shots
• Fun on and offsite social events and Friday in-office happy hour
• Volunteering options through our employee led Pushpay Cares program

Please note: To be considered for this vacancy you must have working rights for New Zealand.