Principal Software Engineer

September 10

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Paddle

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SaaS • Fintech • B2B

Paddle is a comprehensive merchant of record and payment solution specifically designed for SaaS businesses. It provides a complete suite of products and services including billing, subscription management, pricing strategies, tax compliance, fraud protection, and more. Paddle helps software companies manage payments, streamline billing, and enhance customer retention with tools like ProfitWell Metrics and Price Intelligently. By handling sales taxes, fraud liability, and all aspects of the billing process, Paddle enables SaaS businesses to focus on growth without worrying about the complexities of global compliance.

201 - 500 employees

☁️ SaaS

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

💰 Debt Financing on 2022-05

📋 Description

• Own and articulate the long-term technical vision and architectural strategy for key parts of Paddle’s platform, aligning it with product and company goals • Define durable architectural patterns, interfaces, and platform capabilities that enable multiple teams to build consistently and safely at speed • Initiate and drive large, complex programmes of work that simplify systems, reduce operational risk, and accelerate delivery • Serve as the decision-maker on high-stakes technical choices and architectural trade-offs, ensuring durable, high-quality outcomes • Develop deep product fluency and become an expert in how our product works and how it delivers value to the business • Partner with the Product team and other stakeholders to turn ambitious ideas into feasible plans of action • Elevate operational excellence: set patterns that drive teams to be proactive, data-driven, and disciplined in how they manage their systems • Mentor Staff and Senior engineers, grow technical leadership capability across the org, and champion engineering excellence and pragmatic simplicity • Represent Paddle’s technical direction in executive and cross-functional forums, communicating complex concepts with clarity and influence

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience designing and evolving large-scale, distributed backend systems with strong foundations in architecture, performance, reliability, and data integrity • Track record of leading company-level technical strategy and delivering multi-quarter, cross-team initiatives with measurable impact • Ability to operate as an architect, strategist, and problem solver: defining clear architectural direction, connecting technology to business outcomes, and unblocking the hardest technical challenges • Comfortable collaborating and getting hands-on with code when the situation calls for it • Excel at navigating ambiguity, making sound trade-offs, and simplifying complex systems into maintainable, evolvable designs • Communicate with precision across audiences, from engineers to executives • Champion operational excellence and reliability engineering as first principles, especially in regulated or high-trust domains • Empower and uplift others through mentorship, documentation, and setting high standards for engineering practice

🏖️ Benefits

• attractive salaries • stock options • retirement plans • private healthcare • well-being initiatives • unlimited holidays • enhanced parental leave • annual learning fund • regular internal and external training