Director of Engineering

Summary

Join Paddle as a Director of Engineering and lead a group of product engineering teams. You will drive performance, growth, and alignment, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver business impact. This role involves managing Engineering Managers, setting group strategy, ensuring effective cross-functional collaboration, and driving a culture of technical excellence. You will also be responsible for scaling the group, recruiting new talent, and aligning the group's structure with business needs. The ideal candidate is an experienced senior engineering leader with a proven track record of managing large teams and a passion for coaching and development. Paddle offers a full suite of benefits, including attractive salaries, stock options, retirement plans, private healthcare, unlimited holidays, enhanced parental leave, and a learning fund.

Requirements

• Are an experienced senior engineering leader with a track record of leading an organisation of 20-50 individuals, including managing engineering leaders
• Have an engineering background with experience in large scale, web based B2B or B2C platforms
• Have experience growing, managing and retaining high performing, healthy engineering teams
• Have hands-on programming experience as an individual contributor from earlier in your career
• Thrive when working with ambiguous problems with a high degree of autonomy
• Have experience working cross-functionally with Product, Commercial and Customer Success to optimise the output of your teams
• Have a passion for coaching and developing people
• Have excellent communication, stakeholder management and organisational skills

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the engineering managers of the product engineering teams in the group, helping them grow into stronger leaders for their teams
• Foster a high-performance culture, ensuring that teams are empowered, supported, agile and that they consistently deliver high quality software
• Build a collaborative environment where managers and engineers feel psychologically safe, valued, and able to deliver their best work
• Partner with the group Product leader to set the strategic direction, lead roadmap planning, and prioritise deliverables for the group
• Define and execute the engineering vision for the group in alignment with the overall department and company objectives
• Ensure teams are aligned on business goals, balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term technical strategy
• Ensure your teams work effectively with other groups across Product & Engineering to ensure smooth collaboration and alignment on dependencies and deliverables
• Act as a key stakeholder representative for your group in discussions with other departments, including Sales, Customer Success, and Finance
• Ensure clear communication of progress, challenges, and opportunities between the group and its stakeholders
• Drive a culture of technical excellence across the group and the wider engineering department, ensuring engineering practices and tooling are continuously improved
• Identify and address inefficiencies to optimise speed and predictability of delivery across teams
• Champion knowledge sharing and reduce silos by encouraging collaboration between teams both within your group and across the rest of the department
• Collaborate with Talent and People teams to recruit and onboard new engineers and managers into the group as it scales
• Ensure the group’s structure and headcount plans align with current and future business needs

Preferred Qualifications

Fintech experience is of particular interest, but not required or expected

Benefits

• Attractive salaries
• Stock options
• Retirement plans
• Private healthcare
• Well-being initiatives
• Work remotely
• Unlimited holidays
• Enhanced parental leave
• Annual learning fund
• Regular internal and external training