Paddle
Engineering Manager (Platform - Application Excellence)
Remote work allowed only within certain countries or regions.
Employer listed it 3 months ago · Added 4 days ago
Been open since 3 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Work style
Async
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
Region Restricted
Remote work is allowed, but only for candidates based in United Kingdom, Portugal, Ireland.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "UK, Portugal, Ireland, Remote"
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- Applications outside the listed area are usually rejected
- Timezone overlap with the listed area is often expected
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About the role
What do we do?
Paddle offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payment 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 payment 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 5000 software sellers in 245 territories globally.
The role
We're looking for an ambitious Engineering Manager to lead our Application Excellence (AppEx) team, one of two teams in our wider Platform group, alongside SRE. AppEx exists to make Paddle's engineers faster and more effective: improving the internal developer experience, establishing golden paths and best practices, building self-serve tooling, and removing operational friction so product teams can focus on their domains. It's a high-leverage role, your work directly changes how every engineer at Paddle builds and ships.
There's a strong appetite for a better developer experience, but the specific path is open: a big part of the job is listening, gathering, and synthesizing feedback, forming a clear diagnosis, and bringing stakeholders with you before you execute. Success depends on alignment as much as delivery.
You'll report to the Director of Engineering who looks after the Platform group, a group that acts as a multiplier for the product teams, taking ownership and providing the tooling that lets them keep adding value while spending as little time as possible on operational concerns.
Tech stack
Go for our new services
PHP Laravel for our Classic system
Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL for persistent data storage
Docker in production and local development
AWS ECS Fargate for our runtime
AWS SQS for asynchronous message queues
AWS EventBridge for our event bus
Redis for key/value store
Terraform for resource management
Honeycomb, SLOs and OpenTelemetry for our observability needs
What you'll do
Lead the team to deliver initiatives to a high standard, from concept and planning through to rollout, working closely with engineers and stakeholders across the organization.
Own developer productivity and internal developer experience as outcomes you lead.
Listen across the organization, synthesize feedback, and build buy-in before committing the team to a direction, then own a clear, well-argued roadmap for sustainable impact.
Coordinate across team boundaries, including with SRE, Security, Principal Engineers, and leadership, influencing without relying on authority.
Manage and coach your engineers, enabling their personal and professional growth and high-impact team performance.
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, region restricted, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Paddle, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (Async).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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