Engineering Manager (Reporting)

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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.
• 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.

Responsibilities:

• 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.