Comms Platform Engineering Manager, Liberis
£100-110k
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
£100-110k
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
- Professional experience leading a software engineering team. This might be via an engineering manager role, or a tech lead role
- Experience working in a company that builds its own technology products
- Ability to break down goals into thin slices to form a delivery plan
- Professional experience writing code in two or more programming languages. A willingness to learn our tech stack - mostly C# .net, Node, React.While you won’t be a daily contributor, you need to be able to stay close to the technical detail, take part in code reviews, and coach junior engineers
- An understanding of working with Agile methods, such as Extreme Programming, Kanban, or Scrum
- Experience mentoring junior team members
- Experience leading or working in teams that are proficient in CI/CD, DevOps, TDD
- Experience working in teams that are highly informed by customer data
- Resilience in early stage business situations, where requirements are evolving and experimentation is required
What the job involves
- Reporting to: Engineering Director
- You will be leading our Comms Platform team as Engineering Manager
- The team’s mission is to provide a fantastic platform to support all of our communications touchpoints with merchants – this includes marketing, transactional communications, and the software used day to day by our in-house sales team
- Initially, your focus will be on supporting a migration to enable one of our headline company goals: expanding our ability to fund merchants, day or night, without human touchpoints on our side
- This mission is key to driving our Time To Money metric, which we know has a big positive impact on small businesses. As this mission progresses, you will transition the team to building and owning a best in class comms platform
- Line manage a team of 3-8 software engineers and Salesforce specialists organised around a business problem
- Guide team to evolve their delivery processes to optimise for customer value
- Facilitate improvements in ways of working, including technical ways of working, to drive pace and quality
- Make responsible decisions about the cost of running your team and services
- Create job-relevant opportunities for learning and development for engineers
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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