Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Paddle's Engineering team as the Engineering Manager of the Reporting and Analytics team. You will lead a new team responsible for enhancing Paddle's data insights and recommendations for 5000+ customers. This role involves hiring, managing, and coaching engineers, collaborating with the Product Manager on roadmaps, driving process improvements, overseeing technical decisions, and contributing to the department's engineering principles. You will ensure the reliability and scalability of Paddle's high-traffic system and work with financial, risk, and legal stakeholders. The ideal candidate has management experience, strong software engineering experience, and understands 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 strong 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

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
• Work remotely
• Unlimited holidays
• Enhanced parental leave
• Annual learning fund
• Regular internal and external training