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 teamβs 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 isnβt 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 Paddleβs 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