Job Overview
Location
UK
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Engineering Manager
Date Posted
July 9, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • 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.
- • 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.
- • You'll 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.
- • You'll own developer productivity and internal developer experience as outcomes you lead.
- • You'll 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.
- • You'll coordinate across team boundaries, including with SRE, Security, Principal Engineers, and leadership, influencing without relying on authority.
- • You'll manage and coach your engineers, enabling their personal and professional growth and high-impact team performance.
- • You'll stay hands-on and technically credible, contributing to code and reviews, while focusing on direction, alignment, and unblocking the team.
- • You'll oversee the team's technical decisions and contribute to the Platform group's technical strategy.
- • You'll look after the team's shared libraries and tools, maintaining code relied upon by dozens of other services, leading its upkeep and safe rollout to benefit the entire engineering organization.
- • You'll drive improvements to group processes, developer experience, and the reliability and scalability of a high-traffic, event-driven system, with autonomy to change what isn't working.
🎯 Requirements
- • Significant experience as a senior engineer on complex, large-scale, cloud-based systems (Go a plus), including time on Platform or Internal Developer Experience teams
- • Management experience with several direct reports (2+ years) at at least two places, and a genuine passion for developing people
- • Excited by and have specific experience building products for internal stakeholders and developers
- • Excellent at building trust and alignment: gather and synthesise feedback, communicate a clear rationale, and bring people with you before executing; can read a room and adapt
- • Hold your plans loosely: form strong views from evidence, update them readily with new information, and are comfortable being wrong
- • Thrive in ambiguity, shaping loosely-defined problems into a clear, sequenced path while still moving at pace
- • Strong, demonstrable understanding of what makes a high-performing and sustainable engineering team
- • Proactive and take ownership, while staying self-aware and always pushing to get better
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive salaries
- • Stock options
- • Retirement plans
- • Private healthcare
- • Well-being initiatives
- • Unlimited holidays
- • Enhanced parental leave
- • Ongoing investment in learning and personal development
- • Access to new challenges
- • Annual learning fund
- • Regular internal and external training
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About Paddle.com Market Limited
Paddle provides a complete payments, tax, and subscription management platform for SaaS companies. It acts as a merchant of record, handling global payment processing, sales tax compliance, fraud prevention, and subscription billing so developers can focus on product development. The company supports multiple currencies and payment methods, offers analytics and revenue recovery tools, and integrates with existing business systems. Paddle serves thousands of software businesses worldwide, simplifying the complexity of selling software internationally.
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