Manager, Partner Engineering

Manager, Partner Engineering at Checkout.com:

Checkout.com is actively looking for a Partner Engineer & Technical Integrations Specialist, to join our fast-growing global team to support our partners and merchants on platform solutions. This partner-facing role will drive our technical relationships with partners based across EMEA from initial discovery to integration and ongoing management of our SMB focused partnerships. Today, these are Shopify, WooCommerce, Adobe Commerce (fka Magento), Prestashop, OpenCart and VisualSoft.

You will be also responsible for providing technical leadership and guidance for our merchants globally who use these platforms.

In order to be successful in this role, you will be the technical interface between partners and our internal teams, such as Partnerships, Product, Engineering, and Implementation Engineering. The ideal candidate will need to be an independent, highly motivated individual, who is able to stand out in an entrepreneurial environment and outperform goals through personal drive. It is important that this person has prior experience building and scaling platform integrations. Industry-specific platform knowledge and network is a bonus.

What you will be doing:

1. Be the technical owner throughout the partner integration lifecycle, including technical discovery with partner, selection and SOW process for System Integrators for building new integrations, and technical project management.
2. Be the interface between partnerships and product/engineering teams, both internally and externally.
3. Provide subject matter expertise on platforms for merchants, assist merchant RFPs and technical questions wherever platforms are relevant, and be the escalation point for routing issues to partner technical contacts.
4. Provide input to partnership and product teams on technology trends, integration gaps, future features and platform product roadmaps.
5. Technical evangelist for platform partners internally and externally.
6. Build integrations into tech stacks, including APIs.
7. Run debugging and UAT testing, as well as reviewing code.

Desired Candidate Profile

Qualifications

About You:

1. Experience in a Solutions Engineering, Partner Engineering, Implementation Engineering or similar role (payments industry a bonus).
2. Knowledge / experience working with eCommerce platforms, subscription management platforms, and ERPs.
3. Highly familiar with API-based integration methods.
4. DevOps experience from a technical and customer solutions point of view.
5. Strong communicator who can both explain high-level takeaways and drill into technical details with clarity.
6. Confident working closely with product and engineering teams.
7. Highly organised and able to prioritise shifting workloads and responsibilities effectively.
8. Able to thrive in a fast-paced environment.