Engineering Manager (Subscriptions)

Paddle
United Kingdom, Portugal, Ireland
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Coaching","Communication","Technical leadership","Bias for action","Customer focus","Ownership"]

Lead the Subscriptions engineering team that powers Paddle’s recurring revenue engine. You’ll manage and coach engineers, partner with a Product Manager to deliver the subscription lifecycle roadmap (plan changes, upgrades/downgrades, proration, trials, and billing schedules), and set the technical direction for scalable, high-traffic event-driven systems. This is a technical engineering manager role focused on reliability, metrics, and cross-functional execution.

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Paddle
Paddle
1 month ago

Engineering Manager (Subscriptions)

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Job Summary

Lead the Subscriptions engineering team that powers Paddle’s recurring revenue engine. You’ll manage and coach engineers, partner with a Product Manager to deliver the subscription lifecycle roadmap (plan changes, upgrades/downgrades, proration, trials, and billing schedules), and set the technical direction for scalable, high-traffic event-driven systems. This is a technical engineering manager role focused on reliability, metrics, and cross-functional execution.
Location: United Kingdom, Portugal, Ireland
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Facilitate delivery of initiatives from concept and planning through rollout, collaborating with engineers and non-technical colleagues.
  • •Manage and coach engineers to develop personally and professionally and perform together with impact.
  • •Partner with the Product Manager to create and execute the roadmap for success, ensuring sustainable maximum impact.
  • •Drive improvements to team processes and practices, changing what isn’t working with autonomy.
  • •Own the technical strategy for the product area, providing oversight of technical decisions (technical role; no expectation to contribute code).

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Paid LeaveLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Experience with Go or similar languages.
  • •Experience building or scaling subscription or recurring billing systems.
  • •2+ years of management experience with several direct reports, with a passion for developing people.
  • •Proven experience as a senior software engineer working on complex, large-scale, cloud-based systems.
  • •Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable leading technical discussions with engineers and non-technical colleagues.
Experience:PaymentsSubscription billingRecurring billingCloudEvent-driven systems
Skills:LeadershipCoachingCommunicationTechnical leadershipBias for actionCustomer focusOwnership
Tech Stack:Go

Company Brief

Paddle
Paddle is a merchant-of-record platform that handles payments, billing, taxes, fraud and compliance for SaaS and digital product companies, enabling sellers to manage global commerce and subscriptions through a single payments infrastructure.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2012
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