Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Paddle as an Engineering Manager and lead a team in delivering high-quality initiatives, from concept to rollout. You will hire, manage, and coach engineers, collaborating with product managers and other stakeholders. Responsibilities include roadmap creation, process improvement, oversight of technical decisions, and contributing to the department's engineering principles. The ideal candidate possesses strong management experience, extensive software engineering expertise, and a deep understanding of high-performing engineering teams. Paddle offers a comprehensive benefits package, including attractive salaries, stock options, retirement plans, private healthcare, unlimited holidays, enhanced parental leave, and a commitment to personal development.

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