Engineering Manager

Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail capable of issuing, sending and accepting digital value at scale.

Banking and card payment infrastructure still struggles to serve low-volume, high-velocity payments both locally and globally. Businesses send over $20 trillion in refunds, rewards, or remittances to consumers, employees, or freelancers every year, wasting thousands of hours, incurring costs of up to 50% per transaction, and leaving the people they serve waiting days to receive their money.

Runa is transforming the payouts landscape with a new digital payments infrastructure that enables businesses to send digital value to anyone, anywhere instantly, free of charge for senders and recipients. Recipients can immediately spend the value they receive on the Runa network including 4000+ payout types across 37 countries, completely independently of the legacy card rails. Hundreds of leading companies rely on Runa to power instant, flexible global payouts to tens of millions of consumers including Sodexo, TopCashback, Perkbox, Sweatcoin, Coinbase, and Globetopper.

The Role

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading and mentoring a team of engineers to deliver clean, scalable, and reusable code that will have a huge impact on our revolutionary platform and our customers. In addition to providing technical direction, architectural and systems design, you will manage team performance, mentor the team, and support the hiring and training of new team members.

Our Tech

We have Python, TypeScript, and JavaScript services running mostly on Lambda functions. We use Step Functions extensively to orchestrate our workflows. Our persistence layer is largely Aurora (Postgres), DynamoDB, MemoryDB (Redis), and Timestream.

However, we understand the dynamic nature of technology and recognize that skills in any programming language are a valuable asset, which is why we are open to engineers from any programming background.

What Excites You

• Managing a high-performing engineering team to design, deliver, and deploy large scale, complex projects from end to end, which will have a significant impact on customers.
• Leading the overall architecture, systems design, and software practices whilst remaining hands-on.
• Sharing your expertise on technology and domain-specific problems to upskill the team, enabling them to build services from end to end.
• Analysing new technology choices.
• Improving responsiveness and overall performance of our web services.

What Excites Us

• Ideally, 6+ years of Software Engineering experience with a background managing teams of backend or full-stack engineers.
• Experience owning design architecture and scaling teams working on highly scalable and complex software solutions that are used heavily.
• A passion for following and guiding teams on software engineering best practices, including engineering and operational excellence to deliver well-tested, high-performing, and quality code.
• Enthusiasm to manage a team of highly talented engineers, passionate about working cross-functionally with product and operations teams.

Even if you do not meet all of the above requirements but still think you would be a good fit for the role, we would still encourage you to apply.

What's in it for you

We have a hybrid structure with the requirement of 1-2 days a week at our London Office (Aldgate East).

£1,000 annual L&D allowance to invest in mastering your craft, including accredited studies. Plus 5 days of study leave per year.

25 days holiday + public holidays.

Runa Reset Days - Runa closes on the first Friday of each quarter for a well-deserved Reset Day.

Summer Hours - In the month of August, we log off at 3pm on Fridays.

Work from anywhere for up to 45 calendar days a year.

Participation in the Employee Options pool giving you ownership in Runa.

Private Medical + Dental Health Insurance with Bupa.

Enhanced parental leave for all new parents, up to 16 weeks full pay.

We are currently working towards salary transparency; however, we are not there just yet, so our talent team will discuss this during the initial call to ensure that the right expectations are given.

The Interview Process

1. Call with Talent Partner.
2. Manager Behavioral Interview.
3. System Design Interview.
4. Coding Interview.
5. Values Interview.

See our blog which gives more information on what to expect and how to prepare for these interviews!

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to providing a hiring and working experience in which all people feel they are equally respected and valued regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.