Engineering Manager - Galactic Services

Who are we? 

Traild is a high-growth SaaS company redefining how finance teams operate, combining AI, automation, and payments infrastructure to power the future of B2B finance. 

Every year, businesses lose billions to fraud, errors, and mistakes. Traild exists to solve this at scale, helping finance teams move faster, stay in control, and operate with confidence. 

With rapid customer growth, global expansion across APAC, North America and EMEA, and continued investment in product innovation, we are at a defining stage of our journey. 

This is an opportunity to help shape the next category leader in finance automation, control and security, building technology that transforms how businesses manage, move, and protect money. At the core of this is a powerful AI-driven platform, enabling finance teams to deploy intelligent agents that do the work, surface risk in real time, and continuously improve how financial operations run. 

Traild is building the infrastructure behind modern finance, protecting and powering meaningful volumes of the world’s B2B transactions. 

If you’re excited by high growth, real ownership, and building something that matters, Traild is the place to do the most impactful work of your career. 

The Role: 

As an Engineering Manager in our Galactic Services team, you will lead a high-performing engineering squad responsible for building and evolving the shared platforms, services, and tooling that power every product engineering team across Traild.

This role combines people leadership and technical responsibility, with accountability for the growth, performance, and delivery outcomes of your squad. Working closely with Product and Engineering leaders, you will help shape the foundational services that enable our product teams to deliver faster, more securely, and at greater scale.

The Galactic Services team owns core capabilities including authentication, automated approvals, shared platform services, and a growing portfolio of greenfield initiatives. Working across C# and Go on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you'll tackle complex engineering challenges while building reliable, scalable systems that have a broad impact across our entire engineering organisation.

We operate with a high degree of autonomy and ownership, empowering teams to make decisions, move quickly, and have a direct impact on both our engineering platform and the products our customers rely on.

This role would suit an experienced Engineering Manager or a hands-on technical leader looking to take the next step in their leadership journey, with a passion for building high-performing teams, developing platform capabilities, and enabling engineering teams to do their best work.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead and drive resourcing and scoping within our development team improving both the product, the team's environment, and internal technical processes  

• Mentor and develop your team to hone their engineering skills and grow as individuals to meet the capabilities required for the team.  

• Maintain a working environment in which your team can do their best work predictably and sustainably, and with a sense of purpose  

• Ensure the team has all the information they need and the right feedback loops in place to discover and deliver valuable, usable, and buildable outcomes  

• Monitor and look to support the operational health of your team and products for resilience  

• Hire talented engineers who share our values and set them up for success from day one 

Who You Are:   

• Experience partnering with product, design, and business leads to defining team vision and roadmap, driven by a genuine understanding of customer needs. 

• Seasoned coach & mentor; utilizing software delivery, technical experience, and expertise, offer the right knowledge, at the right time in the right way - understanding why and how people learn  

• You will possess high EQ and a true growth mindset; understanding that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work. You will be self-aware, self-regulated, motivated, and empathetic, with great interpersonal skills.  

• Strong communication skills with a knack for breaking down technical details and decisions for non-technical audiences.  

• Ship fast and ship safe. 

• Strong expertise in backend and distributed systems 

• Strong collaborator with an attitude embracing growth, hands-on execution, adaptability, and the scale-up spirit 

The Perks of Working at Traild   

• Flexibility: we offer a range of remote, hybrid and flexible working options.  

• Global team: we are growing across APAC, North America and EMEA and have team all across the world.  

• We are growing at an exponential rate, this is an opportunity to get involved with a true rocket ship with all the excitement and opportunities that comes with it  

• Our team genuinely loves working at Traild: our eNPS score is 78, where anything above 50 is considered world-class. 

Please note that the final applicants for this job will be asked to consent in writing to a police check / criminal background check to the extent permitted by law in your jurisdiction of employment. Please note that Traild is an E-Verify employer.