Engineering Manager, Proton
Payments
+ Stock Options
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
Open for applications
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fight for a better internet that is secure and private by default.
Role
Who you are
- Past experience as a backend developer, possibly in PHP, and working with REST API at scale
- Database and data modeling knowledge (we use MySQL)
- Experience with payment processing, billing systems, financial reporting a strong plus
- Experience leading large and complex projects as a backend engineer
- Experience managing a team of engineers and coaching them on their career development
- Familiarity with agile and scrum best practices
- Experience breaking down large initiatives into smaller, user-centric milestones
- Experience communicating with product owners and stakeholders to ensure team alignment with business objectives
- Bachelor's or master’s degree in a relevant field of study
What the job involves
- The goal of the Payments team is to enable revenue generation for the entire Proton ecosystem. This comes in the form of introducing new payment methods for users to architecting our client libraries
- This team has impact across all of Proton's products and is critical to the success of the business as a whole
- As Proton is a global Company, the Payments Team works to continuously expand the possibilities for users to pay with various payment methods, beyond just plain credit cards or Paypal
- The team works in tight collaboration with the Account Team (responsible for the Proton user lifecycle), the Proton Finance team, and every single Business Unit to ensure that plans, promotions and pricing meet user expectations
- The mission of the team is to empower anyone in the world who wish to use Proton services, to become a Proton subscriber by building enticing interfaces, being able to progressively reach global markets, by providing the methods and tooling allowing users to pay, and for the Proton organization to properly being able to measure growth, and to follow the relative financial regulations
- Differently than many other stacks at Proton, the Payments stack depends largely on external services such as payment providers, tax-information providers, currency-conversion providers... As such it is critical, for the success of the service, to build with resilience
- Internally our backend code is in general based on PHP/Symfony, our frontend is based on React, our mobile code is based on Kotlin (on Android) and on Swift (on iOS), with a growing shared codebase in Rust
- All our client-code is open-source and GPL3
- We are migrating our infrastructure to Kubernetes
- Everything runs on premise in Proton's data-centers
- To organize our work we use classic tools such as Jira and Confluence
- With payments being the backbone of any subscription business, we have ambitious plans to expand the team to cover a wide breadth of topics ranging from demystifying payment performance data across regions/products, to thinking about the holistic strategy of product catalogs, and everything in between
- This particular team requires someone who is a strong generalist, who thrives with ambiguity. There's huge potential for growth no matter the domain, and the outcome for any candidate is an in-depth view into how money moves globally
- As an Engineering manager for our Payments team you will contribute technically and lead the team. While your primary focus is to help deliver new features and also overseeing overall software design and supporting the development of team members
- Work with product and engineering stakeholders to build short and long-term roadmaps with user-centric milestones
- Manage each engineer's performance and career by providing actionable and timely feedback and distributing opportunities fairly across the team
- Drive the hiring and onboarding of new team members by providing them with a clear plan and ensuring quick integration into our organization
- Build a highly collaborative environment where opportunities are regularly discussed and everyone's voice is considered for improving the status quo
- Promote a team of resiliency by eliminating knowledge silos and rotating scrum and project management duties across the engineers and product owners
- Participate in design documents, proposals, and code reviews to unblock the team and shorten feedback loops
Our take
Proton is a Geneva-based startup founded by former CERN worker and internet privacy advocate Andy Yen. It provides internet users with encrypted webmail, calendar, drive, and VPN services.
Proton maintains its pro-privacy ethos using a Swiss VPN, protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. In essence, it has established a connection between the personal and the political, smartly utilising the country’s national laws to benefit people and organisations globally. Proton also funds charities and movements such as the World Wide Web Foundation and Netblocks, further cementing it as an influential NGO.
Perhaps Proton’s most important quality is its determination to maintain independence from advertisers and companies. Originally founded on donations, Proton has funded itself via grants rather than venture capital so that all of its customer's data is never at risk of being mined. One effect of this is that to keep up with the increasing competition in the data privacy sector, Proton has expanded its services to allow more cross-selling and simultaneously has more products to offer, such as drive and calendar privacy.
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12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- These vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events, and team-building activities.
Company values
- People first - Whether serving the Proton community or the broader world, Proton puts people first. it will always put making a positive impact before profits. Proton is independent, neutral, employee-controlled, and does not have venture capital investors.
- Do what is right - Proton believes doing what is right is a competitive advantage. Proton's culture empowers it to do what is right and to do work that it can truly be proud of. It aims to be a tech company with a conscience.
- Science is our foundation - Proton was founded by scientists, and science is part of its DNA and culture. It believes in technical excellence, rigor, and peer review. Integrity, honesty, and transparency are core values.
- We believe in privacy - Proton believes that privacy is a fundamental right and an essential part of being human. Without it, there can be no freedom. Privacy is a deeply held belief that guides all that Proton does.
- Together it’s possible - Proton believes in collective strength. Its mission can only be accomplished by working together with its community. Together, Proton is building a better internet for future generations.
Company HQ
Plan-les-Ouates, GE
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Leadership
Andy Yen
(CEO)Previously PhD Researcher at CERN
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