Comms Platform Engineering Manager, Liberis
£100-110k
1-3 days a week in office
A new era in embedded finance
Job no longer available
A new era in embedded finance
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£100-110k
1-3 days a week in office
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
- 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
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Employee endorsements
Autonomy
"Autonomy and independence is in abundance at Liberis! Since starting with the organisation I have had ownership of my role and I can see the value..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2021
$46m
LATE VC
Dec 2020
$66.6m
LATE VC
Total funding: $155.1m
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. We respect and empathise with one another.
- Small Businesses Matter Most. We only succeed, when small businesses succeed.
- Communicate Directly. Everyone has a voice, and we encourage them to use.
- Own Every Outcome. Great things don't happen by accident.
- Prove It. Talk is just talk without the data to back it up.
- Act Like Time is Running Out. The world moves fast, so do we.
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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