Manager, Software Engineering

Location: Bangalore, India

Employment Type: Full-time

Powering the World’s Payments Ecosystem

ACI Worldwide powers the payments ecosystem globally, and our people power ACI. Here, you’ll collaborate, innovate, and grow in a global technology environment where your work makes a visible impact.

As a Manager, Software Engineering, you will lead a talented engineering team supporting our Product Engineering team. You’ll combine people leadership, technical understanding, and delivery management to build secure, reliable, and high-quality software solutions.

What You’ll Do

- Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers.
- Manage engineering priorities, resources, risks, and delivery commitments.
- Support employees through regular feedback, performance reviews, career development, and training plans.
- Partner with product, architecture, quality engineering, security, and global engineering teams.
- Guide the development and maintenance of software products in alignment with business and customer needs.
- Promote strong engineering practices, automation, continuous improvement, and responsible use of AI-enabled development tools.
- Ensure product security, compliance, and secure software development lifecycle practices.
- Identify and resolve technical, operational, and delivery challenges.
- Participate in management escalation and on-call support when required.
- Follow all corporate policies, including the ACI Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- More than 12 years of technology industry experience, including at least 5 years in software development and/or design, along with proven engineering leadership experience.
- Previous people management, engineering management,



or technical leadership experience.
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and modern engineering practices.
- Experience managing delivery, team performance, stakeholder expectations, and competing priorities.
- Strong critical-thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work effectively with global and cross-functional teams.
- Knowledge of product security and secure software development practices.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Experience
- Experience developing enterprise-grade or business-critical software.
- Exposure to payments, fintech, banking technology, or another regulated environment.
- Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, cloud platforms, test automation, and observability.
- Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams.

Core Capabilities
- Ensure Accountability
- Drive Results
- Customer Focus
- Cultivate Innovation
- Collaborate
- Courage

Work Authorization Applicants must be currently authorized to work in India on a full-time basis. This position does not offer employment visa or work permit sponsorship now or in the future.

Join Us

We offer opportunities for professional growth, career development, and a competitive compensation and benefits package in an innovative and collaborative global setting.

Ready to help transform the payments ecosystem? Learn more at the ACI Worldwide website.

ACI Worldwide is a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software. Our proven, secure and scalable software solutions enable leading corporations, fintechs and financial disruptors to process and manage digital payments, power omni-commerce payments, present and process bill payments, and manage fraud and risk. We combine our global footprint with a local presence to drive the real-time digital transformation of payments and commerce.

📌 Mgr Software Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 ACI Worldwide
📍 Bengaluru