• Join Paddle, the Merchant of Record that removes payment fragmentation for digital product companies, in a full-time remote role.
• Lead the Subscriptions team, the product at the core of Paddle’s recurring revenue engine.
• Build the tools customers use to manage the full subscription lifecycle, from plan changes and proration to trials and flexible billing.
• Shape a product that powers the recurring billing operations of thousands of companies each month.
• Lead a cross-functional team of 4 to 6 engineers alongside a Product Manager.
• Take a technical leadership role, though writing code is not expected.
📋 Job Requirements
• Bring experience with Go or similar languages.
• Show at least 2 years of management experience with several direct reports.
• Bring a genuine passion for developing people.
• Show proven experience as a senior software engineer on complex, large-scale cloud systems.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of what makes a high-performing, sustainable engineering team.
• Communicate excellently, leading technical discussions with engineers and non-technical colleagues.
• Bring specific experience building products that handle payments, transfers and financial reconciliation.
• Enjoy getting into the mechanics of money movement.
• Work comfortably with financial, risk and legal stakeholders.
• Handle complex problems and ambiguity while balancing progress against perfection.
• Be based in the UK, Ireland or Portugal.
🌟 Nice-to-have
• Bring experience building or scaling subscription or recurring billing systems.
• Show experience with high-traffic event-driven architectures.
• Bring experience contributing to a company-wide data or metrics strategy.
• Show experience shaping engineering principles across a department.
🎯 Responsibilities
• Lead the delivery of initiatives from concept and planning through to rollout.
• Manage and coach your engineers so they develop personally and perform together with impact.
• Partner with the Product Manager to create a roadmap for sustainable impact.
• Drive improvements to team processes and practices, with autonomy to change what is not working.
• Oversee technical decisions and own the technical strategy for the product area.
• Contribute to the role of metrics within Paddle’s wider data strategy.
• Improve the reliability and scalability of a high-traffic, event-driven system.
• Work with other engineering leaders on department-wide principles and practices.
About Paddle
😃 What Paddle offers
• Work remotely as part of a digital-first company, or from one of Paddle’s hubs.
• Take unlimited holidays.
• Get 4 months of paid family leave regardless of gender.
• Use an annual learning fund plus regular internal and external training.
• Lead a product at the core of Paddle’s recurring revenue.
• Join a transparent, collaborative and respectful culture.
💖 What makes Paddle unique
Paddle offers digital product companies a different approach to payment infrastructure, acting as a Merchant of Record so they avoid assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments apps and services. It processes millions of payments globally and makes thousands of payouts across multiple currencies each month, while remitting taxes accurately in every jurisdiction. The company is backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion and 83North.
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