Engineering Manager, Platform AppEx – Remote UK

Coinscapture; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Stock options

Private healthcare

Unlimited holidays

Learning fund

Job summary

Paddle is seeking an Engineering Manager (Platform - Application Excellence) to lead the AppEx team and raise developer productivity across our platform. You’ll listen to engineers, form a clear diagnosis, and guide a high-impact roadmap with stakeholders.

The role combines leadership, hands-on coding, and architectural influence across Go, PHP/Laravel, and distributed systems. You will mentor engineers, foster growth, and shape the Platform group’s technical strategy while ensuring robust,

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a senior engineer on complex, large-scale cloud-based systems.
• Experience managing multiple reports and developing people.
• Proven ability to build products for internal stakeholders and developers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Application Excellence team within the Platform group.
• Improve developer productivity and internal developer experience outcomes.
• Synthesize feedback, form a clear roadmap, and align stakeholders before executing.
• Coach engineers, drive high-performance teamwork, and stay technically credible.
• Oversee shared libraries and tooling, ensuring safe rollout across services.
• Drive improvements to group processes and system reliability.

Skills

Senior engineer

People management

Internal developer experience

Stakeholder management

Cloud architecture

Go

Tools

Go

PHP Laravel

Aurora MySQL

PostgreSQL

Docker

AWS ECS Fargate

AWS SQS

EventBridge

Redis

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Honeycomb

Job description

Paddle is seeking an Engineering Manager (Platform - Application Excellence) to lead the AppEx team and raise developer productivity across our platform. You’ll listen to engineers, form a clear diagnosis, and guide a high-impact roadmap with stakeholders.

The role combines leadership, hands-on coding, and architectural influence across Go, PHP/Laravel, and distributed systems. You will mentor engineers, foster growth, and shape the Platform group’s technical strategy while ensuring robust,