Engineering Manager
What do we do? Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payments fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better. We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 3000 software sellers in 245 territories globally. The Role: We’re changing how billing and commerce are thought of for SaaS companies which requires combining both a stable platform and a flexible and discovery based approach to building out the product. Our people are extremely important to us, so strong mentoring and personal development skills are key for our Engineering Manager role. Each of our eight product teams have a Product Manager, Engineering Manager and between 4 - 8 engineers. The teams are set up with a clear area of product ownership along with goals that give them clarity on who they’re building for and freedom to choose how best to do that. These teams are cross-functional in nature with the PM and the Engineering Manager sharing responsibility for delivery; design being involved from discovery to delivery and members from other departments being pulled in as required. Working with our other Engineering Managers and our CTO, you'll help guide the department engineering principles and you'll be involved in technical decisions with your team, ensuring the team is working in the right way and developing your team both personally and professionally. We believe a strong relationship between Engineering, Product and Design means building a better product for the customer, developing that within and outside your sphere of influence is crucial to our continued success. What you'll do:
- Own your team’s technical direction, growth and how they work;
- Develop your team personally and professionally so they are high performing and happy;
- Help drive Paddle forwards as a Product-led company;
- Have the autonomy to do what you think is right (and change what isn’t working)
- Help remove blockers for your team;
- Work with your Product Manager and Product Designer to influence Paddle’s business direction;
- Be involved in hiring and Paddle’s continued growth.
- Manage, mentor and coach a team of highly performing Engineers
- You have a software development background;
- You love developing people and product, and have experience growing engineering teams;
- You’re self aware and always open to improving and pushing on how you can get better
- You’re passionate about the discovery phase of new features;
- You can confidently have technical discussions with your team;
- You're comfortable working with non-technical stakeholders;
- You’re proactive and enjoy taking ownership;
- You understand the importance of product and design and how great products stem from these relationships