Engineering Manager (Internal Developer Experience & AI Tooling)

Responsibilities

• Lead the team to deliver initiatives to a high standard, from concept and planning through to rollout, working closely with engineers and stakeholders across the organization.
• Own developer productivity and internal developer experience as outcomes you lead.
• Shape Paddle's AI software factory: agents working across the SDLC, from ticket to merged PR, with the guardrails, golden paths and quality gates that keep it safe. Measure its impact on cycle time and quality, not just adoption.
• Listen across the organization, synthesize feedback, and build buy-in before committing the team to a direction, then own a clear, well-argued roadmap for sustainable impact.
• Coordinate across team boundaries, including with SRE, Security, Principal Engineers, and leadership, influencing without relying on authority.
• Manage and coach your engineers, enabling their personal and professional growth and high-impact team performance.
• Stay hands-on and technically credible, contributing to code and reviews, while focusing on direction, alignment, and unblocking the team.
• Oversee the team's technical decisions and contribute to the Platform group's technical strategy.
• Look after the team's shared libraries and tools, maintaining code relied upon by dozens of other services, leading its upkeep and safe rollout to benefit the entire engineering organization.
• Drive improvements to group processes, developer experience, and the reliability and scalability of a high-traffic, event-driven system, with autonomy to change what isn't working.

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