Engineering Manager - Melbourne, Australia - LittlePay

LittlePay

Verified Company

Melbourne, Australia

1 week ago

Posted by:

Olivia Brown

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Description

Engineering Manager

We're Littlepay - a growing fintech headquartered in Melbourne with operations in the UK, EU, LATAM, USA, and more recently, Australia.

Our payments platform enables our customers to pay for public transport using any payment card, mobile wallet, or wearable device.

Processing over 100 million transactions in 13 countries and continuing to expand globally, we're proud to move more people through better payment experiences.

Our Littlepay values:

Trust and be trustworthy
Embrace challenge
Solve problems, together
Deliver with speed and agility
Be candid and kind

About the opportunity

We're looking for a talented Engineering Manager to help build and lead three burgeoning Engineering teams (comprised of approximately 20 people).

As an Engineering Manager you will work closely with Partners, Product Managers, Technical Leads and Delivery Leads to deliver solutions that add value to internal and external customers.

You will need to be curious, self-sufficient, detailed and intrinsically motivated.

You will work with colleagues who:

are passionate about collaborative solutions development & technology

- care about quality and writing clean, maintainable and well-tested code
- are strong advocates of best practices and continuous improvement
- take end-to-end ownership for delivery and operations
- enjoy solving complex and interesting problems in an Agile team setting

About our platform tech:

Java/Spring/Go microservices
Open source and AWS technologies (ECS/RDS/DynamoDB/S3/SQS/APIGateway/Lambda), IaC (Cloudformation)

Reporting to the Head of Product Engineering, the Engineering Manager will:

work with Engineers, Technical Leads and Delivery Leads to establish career plans, review promotions & coach

- manage your groups resource planning, recruitment and headcount needs
- participate in technical discussions and own outcomes for all of your teams
- establish and monitor metrics that help to increase performance and quality
- balance delivery, quality and technical excellence
- collaborate closely with senior leadership to plan and execute multiple organisational initiatives
- build performant and maintainable solutions
- create an environment for all group members to help solve challenging problems
- track and report progress towards agreed delivery milestones, escalating as needed

Requirements:

Ideally, you'll have:

At least 7 years of hands on software engineering experience, with (at least one of) Java or C#
At least 3 years experience of being responsible for people management

- experience developing software in a cloud-hosted environment (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- the willingness to experiment, fail, and try again
- a strong sense of curiosity and self motivation, and the willingness to participate in all areas of engineering
- experience across the whole software development lifecycle, including running what you build
- the desire to share your knowledge and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical people
- the ability to comprehend, coordinate, and communicate effectively
- experience in building and maintaining a collaborative team culture
- experience in raising the profile of and promoting, team achievements
- a track record of successful delivery and leading happy teams

Bonus points for having:
- a fintech and payments background
- experience managing other managers

Our recruitment process

If you've been shortlisted for the role, you'll first have a chat with our Head of Talent, who will set up an interview if the stars align.

A short workplace preferences questionnaire will also be sent to help us learn more about the way you prefer to work.

Following a successful first interview, you'll meet with a second set of Littlepay folks, and be invited to participate in the final stage before being presented with an offer.

Ultimately, being part of our small but mighty team means you'll have the opportunity to learn about micropayments, and have a hand in the provision of services that impact millions of people.

You'll help us deliver on our revolutionary product roadmap and help scale our platform as we continue to expand across the globe.

Benefits
We love to look after our people.

At Littlepay, you'll be part of an inclusive and diverse team that celebrates the differences and unique gifts we each bring to work.

You'll have access to:

A high trust working environment, with usage of cloud collaboration tools like Notion, Slack, Miro, Gmail and Jira that help us work together effectively
Paid professional development (including conferences, courses, learning subscriptions, etc.)
Harrison Assessments our talent management provider that facilitates continuous professional development
A variety of flexible leave options (including annual, personal, volunteer, parental, grandparental, gender affirmation, and more)
Superannuation contributions on all paid parental leave payments
A companywide paid day off
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