Engineering Manager, Liberis
Cloud Platform Team
3 days a week in office (White City, London)
A new era in embedded finance
Be an early applicant
A new era in embedded finance
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
3 days a week in office (White City, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
Liberis are on a mission to supercharge the power of small businesses all over the world - delivering the financial products they need to grow.
Role
Who you are
- Previous experience line managing teams
- Experience developing and managing a cloud platform (GCP preferred, Azure second, others third)
- Experience working in a start-up or scale-up. If you have experience of teams routinely (and safely) deploying code to prod within hours of writing it, that would be ideal
- Demonstrable experience collaborating across multiple teams to deliver complex initiatives
- A strong user-focused mentality (especially dev experience)
- A coding background is a nice-to-have, but not essential
What the job involves
- Reporting into the Head of Platform Engineering, you will be supporting our Cloud Platform team in designing and building our new platform on GCP, with a view to creating an excellent developer experience for our engineering teams!
- A new role to the business, you will be working on a greenfield solution, with the autonomy, independence and scope to shape the direction of the team!
- We're taking the opportunity to reassess and rearchitect (or retire) critical parts of our infrastructure, networking, and applications
- A key element of this role will be helping the team to balance our desire to do things right with our need to move quickly and show clear progress
- We don't have a central architecture team, so the onus will be on the Cloud Platform team to really understand and anticipate our user's needs, in order to deliver solutions that they want to use
- Line managing a high performing team
- Developing and managing our cloud platforms (GCP and Azure)
- Building strong, collaborative relationships with peers in other teams and users of your systems
- Implementing solutions which our internal dev teams love (and they have very high standards!)
- Assessing and improving the people, process and tech in your team and beyond (for example, upskilling teams, managing BAU processes, or adopting new tools)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
London-based Liberis offers small businesses a new way of securing financing. 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 financing. 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. It's other standout feature is its frictionless end-to-end funding experience, which uses a single API integration to accelerate the timeline from application to finance.
Liberis operates an impressive global partner network that consists of eCommerce platforms. It has raised significant funding that will enable it to grow its European and US presence with new partners as well as established ones like eBay US.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
33% female employees
60% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2021
$42.1m
LATE VC
Dec 2020
$61.1m
LATE VC
Total funding: $142.2m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday a year, with 3 additional days taken over the Christmas & New Year periods. Option to buy and sell holiday days.
- Annual Bonus Scheme. % based on a combination of company performance and your individual performance.
- Clear and transparent Commission Scheme to motivate and reward our Sales teams.
- Life Assurance at 3x annual salary.
- Learning fund. If you’ve got skills you’d like to develop, we’ll give you £1,000 a year to go for it.
- Our partnership with mental health platform ‘Spill’ offers support for a huge range of needs, from work-life balance and personal growth to counselling.
- After 2 years of continuous service you can take a sabbatical for up to 3 months.
- Pension scheme. 5% employee (option to pay more) / 4% employer contributions.
- Primary carers. 20 weeks at full pay after 26 weeks of service.
- Secondary carers. 12 weeks at full pay after 26 weeks of service, with an option to split time off within the first 12 months of birth or adoption.
- Fertility support. 2 days for partner per cycle, 5 days for woman per cycle.
- Medical cash plan. Claim money back towards the cost of your essential everyday healthcare, such as dental, optical, physio and GP appointments.
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
Leadership
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, Equity & Inclusion at Liberis
Izzy Brooman (Head of Marketing)
- The DEIB committee are the grassroots group of advocates at Liberis. We champion cultural transformation within Liberis and the wider community. And celebrate the things that make us special!
- We have a holistic approach to D&I by considering how we can make the world a better place through all aspects of our value chain: celebrating and supporting our employees, providing the best experience for our customers, encouraging D&I best practices from our suppliers & engaging with the wider community.
- 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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