Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Paddle as an Engineering Manager to lead a team developing payout, settlement, tax, and ledger products. You will facilitate project delivery, manage and coach engineers, collaborate with the Product Manager on roadmaps, and drive process improvements. This is a technical leadership role focusing on a high-traffic, event-driven system. The ideal candidate has management experience, extensive software engineering experience, and a strong understanding of high-performing engineering teams. 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

• Have a passion for developing people and bring at least 1 year of management experience with several direct reports
• Have at least 5 years of experience as a senior software engineer working on complex, large-scale, cloud-based systems
• Have a strong and demonstrable understanding of what it means to be a high-performing and sustainable engineering team
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and are comfortable leading technical discussions with engineers and non-technical colleagues
• Are excited by, and have specific experience in, building products that handle payments, transfers, and financial reconciliation
• Are someone that enjoys getting into the details and understanding the mechanics of money movements
• Are comfortable working closely with financial, risk, and legal stakeholders, ensuring systems are reliable, compliant, and can scale
• Are proactive and enjoy taking ownership, but self-aware and always open to improving and pushing on how you can get better

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the delivery of initiatives to a high standard from initial concept and planning through to rollout, collaborating with engineers and non-technical colleagues
• Hire, manage, and coach the engineers in your team so that they develop both personally and professionally, and are able to perform together with impact
• Partner with the team’s Product Manager to create a roadmap for success, make sure the team is working in the right way for maximum (and sustainable) impact
• Drive improvements to the processes and practices of the team with the autonomy to do what you think is right and change what isn’t working
• Have oversight of the technical decisions being made in your team, and responsibility for the technical strategy within the product area that the team owns
• Help to continuously improve the reliability and scalability of Paddle’s high-traffic event-driven system
• Work with our other leaders across Engineering, contributing to the department's engineering principles and practices to build an industry-leading organisation

Preferred Qualifications

• Are excited by, and have specific experience in, building products that handle payments, transfers, and financial reconciliation
• Are someone that enjoys getting into the details and understanding the mechanics of money movements
• Are comfortable working closely with financial, risk, and legal stakeholders, ensuring systems are reliable, compliant, and can scale
• Are proactive and enjoy taking ownership, but self-aware and always open to improving and pushing on how you can get better

Benefits

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