Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Paddle's growing team as an Engineering Manager leading the Application Excellence team within the Platform group. You will guide initiatives from concept to rollout, mentor engineers, and contribute to the technical strategy. This role requires significant experience in software engineering, management, and building internal developer tools. You'll collaborate with other engineering leaders and improve engineering efficiency and developer experience. Paddle offers a remote-friendly work environment, unlimited holidays, enhanced parental leave, and a comprehensive benefits package including stock options, retirement plans, private healthcare, and a learning fund.

Requirements

• Have at least 5 years of experience as a senior software engineer working on complex, large-scale, cloud-based systems
• Have experience working on Platform, Internal Developer Experience or similar teams
• Have at least 2 years of management experience with several direct reports
• 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

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the delivery of initiatives to a high standard from initial concept and planning through to rollout, collaborating with engineers and other internal stakeholders
• Manage and coach the engineers on your team so that they develop personally and professionally and can perform together with impact
• Report to the Director of Engineering, who looks after the Platform group. Create a roadmap for success and ensure the team is working in the right way for maximum (and sustainable) impact
• Contribute code and code reviews every day
• Oversee the technical decisions being made in the department and provide feedback on the platform's technical strategy
• Help to continuously improve engineering efficiency and internal developer experience
• Help to continuously improve the reliability and scalability of Paddle’s high-traffic event-driven system
• Drive improvements to the group's processes and practices with the autonomy to do what you think is right and change what isn’t working
• Work with our other engineering leaders, contributing to the department's engineering principles and practices to build an industry-leading organisation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Go is a plus
• You're excited by and have specific experience building products for internal stakeholders and developers
• You're someone who enjoys getting into the details and understanding the mechanics of anything tech
• You're comfortable working closely with our SRE and Security teams to achieve a better overall platform
• You’re proactive and enjoy taking ownership, but you're also self-aware and always open to improving and pushing yourself to get better

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