Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

October 30

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Butter Payments

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Finance • Fintech • SaaS

Butter Payments is a company that specializes in optimizing payment recovery for subscription-based businesses using machine learning technology. They focus on reducing involuntary churn, increasing revenue recovery, and improving payment health. Butter Payments works with various payment processors and subscription management platforms to provide customized solutions for B2B, B2C, SaaS, and e-commerce companies. They emphasize security and compliance, offering regular vulnerability assessments and maintaining standards such as SOC 2 Type 2 and PCI DSS Level 2 compliance.

11 - 50 employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Scale the engineering team and processes to support a growing pipeline of customers, while maintaining high standards of delivery and team cohesion • Set the engineering roadmap for your product area in coordination with Product and Engineering leadership • Deliver high-impact features and operational improvements (performance, scalability, reliability) that directly drive Butter’s mission (recovering failed payments, reducing client churn) • Coach, mentor and build a strong engineering team: hire, develop engineers, establish engineering practices (code review, CI/CD, metrics) • Drive technical excellence: system design, scalable architecture, ML pipeline integration, monitoring/observability • Collaborate with Data Science, Product, Customer Success and Sales to align engineering work with business impact and client outcomes • Measure and report on team performance, product delivery outcomes, and key engineering metrics (velocity, defect rate, uptime, latency) • Foster a culture aligned with Butter’s values: 'burn the boat' (take bold bets), 'survive and advance' (resilient and curious), and 'diamond hands' (master the craft)

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years as an engineering manager (or similar leader) of software teams delivering product features into production, with 8+ total years of experience • Experience with payments, ideally at a high-growth startup, is a plus • Significant hands-on experience as a software engineer (i.e., you can still review architecture and code) • Strong track record of shipping product features, leading technical architecture, and driving measurable business outcomes • Experience working with data/ML pipelines, real-time decisioning systems or high-volume transaction systems preferred • Experience with payments, subscription business models, fintech, or SaaS is a strong plus • Proficiency with modern engineering practices: test automation, CI/CD, microservices or event-driven architecture, cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure) • Excellent communication and collaboration skills: ability to work cross-functionally (Product, Data Science, GTM) • Passion for scaling small teams into high-impact organisations, building culture, and growing engineers • Comfortable in a fast-moving, start-up environment where priorities may evolve rapidly (Butter is agile and growth-oriented)

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Equity • Benefits (to be determined per level)