Head of Platform Engineering, Liberis
£110-140k
1-3 days a week in office
Embedded business finance solutions
Job no longer available
Embedded business finance solutions
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£110-140k
1-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Liberis is on a mission to provide small businesses with accessible and responsive finance.
Role
Who you are
- Strong technical background with a deep understanding of how platforms are normally created, maintained, and evolved in an engineering organisation
- Proven management experience on a platform style team, as well as experience in a product engineering team
- Demonstrated ability to manage and mentor the most senior engineers
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Proven experience in driving change and influencing across an organization
- Deep and compelling vision of best in class Developer Experience and its key drivers and signals of success
- Empathetic and understanding of how to embed behaviour change across a whole organisation
- Adept at making strategic decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term vision
- Strong stakeholder management skills
What the job involves
- As the Head of Platforms, you will be accountable for the impact, quality, and uptake of key internal platforms that we make available to engineering teams
- Additionally, you will take line management of our most senior Staff and Principal engineers, who operate across the organisation and are our primary lever for coordinating between teams
- This gives you a large amount of leverage to not only build a fantastic set of platforms that are aligned with what our teams need, but also to coordinate the influence, coaching, and training required to drive adoption of new technologies and new ways of working
- Accountable for driving improvements of in key organisation wide metrics including Engineer NPS, DORA metrics, and external SLAs
- Manager of Managers for platform teams. At present this is our Cloud Platform, Comms platform, and CRM - but this list is likely to grow
- Line management of a group of staff and principal engineers who take responsibility for cross-domain alignment and strategic investments into the engineering organization
- The Head of Platforms is accountable for improving Developer Experience at Liberis. You will be measured on your ability to improve the organisation wide reliability and speed of execution, and your ability to make a positive impact on the day to day experience of working at Liberis
- As you will have ownership of both platforms and Staff+ engineers, this role has the scope to make changes to technology and processes, but also the influence to align, influence, and coach other engineering teams
- Your primary customers will be Engineers, and your stakeholders will be Engineering Managers. You will report to the Director of Engineering
- The Head of Platforms role is accountable for improving Developer Experience. By owning both the platforms and the Staff+ engineers, who are the primary alignment force across the engineering org, the Head of Platforms has the scope to make changes that require a mixture of changes to technology and processes, but also require alignment, influence, and coaching inside other engineering teams
- The Head of Cloud Platforms should see the Engineers as their customers, and EMs as stakeholders
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
London-based Liberis offers small businesses a new way of securing loans. By taking an agreed % of customer credit and debit card takings, Liberis has created a brand new system of repayment, meaning small businesses no longer have to rely on traditional loans. Whilst small businesses are a cornerstone of the global economy, they are continuously turned away by traditional lenders, hence Liberis has been able to harness a crucial part of the global market whilst boosting small business.
Liberis isn't the only 'pay-as-you-earn'-style finance provider: it competes with similar schemes provided by the likes of Amazon and Paypal. Nonetheless, it has seen rapid growth, and has funded around $1B to over 23,000 SMEs across the UK, Europe, and the US. This can be accredited to the platform's use of machine learning to understand a customer's risk profile, and hence the maximum funding options available to them.
Liberis operates an impressive global partner network that consists of eCommerce platforms such as Klarna. It has raised significant funding that will enable it to grow its European presence with new and established partners, bringing flexible funding options to SMEs in new territories such as the Nordic region.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
33% female employees
60% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2021
$44.5m
LATE VC
Dec 2020
$64.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $150.2m
Company benefits
- Pension scheme - 4% employer contribution
- Life insurance at 3x your annual salary
- Performance related bonus, or generous commission scheme (role dependant)
- Expert financial wellbeing support
- Private healthcare
- Medical cash plan
- Employee assistance programme
- Wellbeing and counselling support
- 25 days holiday a year (not including bank holidays), with 3 additional days taken over the Christmas & New Year period with the option to buy or sell holiday days
- Flexible working options
- Discounts and perks with leading companies
- Help with your commute - Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work scheme
- Keep your kit up-to-date - Techscheme
- Social budget offering
- Time out - sabbatical after you’ve been with us for 2 years
- Primary carers leave from 26 weeks, entitled to 20 weeks at full pay Secondary carers leave from 26 weeks, entitled to 12 weeks at full pay Paid miscarriage support and parental bereavement leave
Company values
- Empathy Always. Inclusion fuels Liberis' success. Respect, unity, and positive intent empower us to thrive together
- Prove It. Every choice counts, so we embrace diverse perspectives, challenge opinions, and constantly question our own convictions
- Communicate Directly. Open communication drives our fast-paced culture, empowering everyone to voice their convictions without ego or defensiveness
- Own Every Outcome. Liberis thrives on relentless pursuit, overcoming challenges, and inspiring accountability for impactful outcomes
- Act Like Time is Running Out. Move fast, win big. Speed matters when competing against the clock
- Merchants Matter Most. Putting merchants first is not just our priority, it's the key to unlocking their success
Company HQ
Shepherd's Bush, London, UK
Articles
Founders
Rob Straathof
(CEO, not founder)Previously founded Taste 2. Experience as Director for Newable Business Finance Ltd, Non Executive Director for Folkefinans AS, Director for Everline Financial Services.
People progressing
Tracy joined Liberis in 2014 as a Sales Executive and has progressed to a Senior Manager leading our Global Customer Operations team. She now has team members across the UK, Sweden and the US.
Ollie joined the Product team at Liberis in September 2021, he has since been promoted twice and is now in the role of Chief of Staff, working alongside our CEO and Executive team.
Diversity & Inclusion at Liberis
- Our commitment is not just surface level. We’re on a mission to create a safe space where everyone and anyone, regardless of their background, can thrive.
- We also recognise that diverse teams perform better because we have so much to learn from one another.
- We have a hive of activity happening around the business to make sure we’re always pushing for more. Everyone is encouraged to get involved to help us to continue to build an excellent culture at Liberis.
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