Boku Inc. (BOKU.L) is the leading global provider of local mobile-first payments solutions. Global brands including Amazon, DAZN, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Sony, Spotify, and Tencent rely on Boku to reach millions of new paying consumers who do not use credit cards with our purpose-built payment network of more than 250 local payment methods that reach 7 billion accounts across 65 countries. Every year, Boku processes over $9 billion in value for our customers. Incorporated in 2008, Boku is headquartered in London and San Francisco and has employees in over 39 countries around the world, including Brazil, China, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, and the UAE. Boku is a truly global company that takes pride in its diversity and thriving equal opportunity workplace.
Boku is looking for a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead the Merchant Settlement engineering team, whose mission is to move money efficiently and reliably and provide reporting capability for our global merchants. As the manager of this team, you will play a critical role in enhancing Boku capability to pay our merchant faster. This is a hybrid position based in London, UK, and you will lead a distributed team of Engineers, primarily based in London, with some remote.
What you’ll do:
- Manage a distributed engineering team within a globally distributed organisation.
- Partner with Product and Payment Operations to design solutions that support our business's goals, from inception to production.
- Lead the development of critical tools for Payment Operations, focusing on scalability, security, and reliability.
- Provide hands-on expertise and support to your team at every stage of the SDLC, including code reviews and system design reviews.
- Manage and participate in production support when appropriate.
- Recruiting, hiring, motivating, and retaining engineers
- Drive engineering best practices, maintaining a high level of expertise in your field.
- Project and resource planning
- Long-term planning that aligns with company goals and strategy
- Continuously collaborate with peers from other Technology teams.
- Strives to improve efficiency and sustainability of processes and product designs, and to reduce waste.
About You:
- Hands-on Technical Leader – You are excited to roll up your sleeves and work alongside your team members.
- People Leader – You care about your team members and are passionate about increasing their impact and growing their careers.
- Ownership – You are driven, self-motivated, and take ownership of your work.
- Product-minded – You enjoy working with stakeholders in solving customers' problems or building out new product capabilities through technology.
- Growth-minded – You are curious and enthusiastic to expand your skills and are willing to take on more responsibilities as opportunities arise,
Requirements:
- 3-5 years of experience managing a Technology team
- Strong technical background in Java
- Strong software design and architecture skills
- Attention to detail and strong organisation skills
- Strong experience using agile methodologies and tools
- Strong communication skills
Nice to Have:
- Experience working on high-volume and low-latency systems
- Experience working in a globally distributed environment.
- Experience working in payment or other regulated industry.
- Experience with some of the following technologies/frameworks/tools: Spring, JPA/Hibernate, MySQL, Redshift, JMS, Kafka and modern front-end frameworks such as React or Vue
- Experience with cloud technologies with AWS ecosystem & Kubernetes preferred.
What you’ll get in return
- 25 days off + 3 company days off + Christmas shutdown
- Stock options.
- Private medical insurance.
- Home Office equipment budget.
- Flexibility to work from the office or from home.
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Boku Inc. (BOKU.L) is the leading global provider of local mobile-first payments solutions. Global brands including Amazon, DAZN, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Sony, Spotify, and Tencent rely on Boku to reach millions of new paying consumers who do not use credit cards with our purpose-built payment network of more than 250 local payment methods that reach 7 billion accounts across 65 countries. Every year, Boku processes over $9 billion in value for our customers. Incorporated in 2008, Boku is headquartered in London and San Francisco and has employees in 29 countries around the world, including Brazil, China, Estonia, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Singapore, and the UAE.
