Engineering Director

In 2018, Zettle became part of the PayPal family. Zettle is on a mission to help Small Businesses succeed in a world of giants. Millions of Small Business Owners worldwide are still being underserved by the traditional players. By giving them the tools to get paid, sell smarter and grow, we are empowering them to reach their full potential. Together, we’re extraordinary. Together, we’re made for more. Join us in putting an end to ordinary and redefine financial freedom. The best is yet to come.


We are seeking a high energy, experienced tech leader for our Seller Lifecycle Alliance, with a strong track record of leading multiple cross-functional tech teams and bringing strong people leadership skills and technical acumen. You will lead a team of 60+ people, currently across two locations (Stockholm and San Jose, USA).


Seller Lifecycle Alliance has the mission to grow the number of active sellers and to help them get more out of each step in their journey with Zettle, offering the right products, services and pricing at the right time.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to co-shape the future of amazing products and thus actively contribute to our customers’ success by empowering your teams to unleash their full potential and keep innovativeness flowing. Are you in?

A glimpse of what you would get here
By joining forces with PayPal, we’re empowered to do so much more as we share the same belief in the power of small businesses and see no limit to what we can achieve together. As our business grows, so does our tech organisation. To make the magic happen, our tech leaders play a fundamental role in leading the way forward by mentoring and challenging our teams and engineers, to grow and improve our systems, ways of working and culture.

Working together toward a common vision and challenge the ordinary. How does that sound?

Ready to swap everyday for extraordinary?
As a member of our Tech Management Chapter, you will be in charge of cross-functional teams that are part of the Seller Lifecycle Alliance and you will lead other tech managers in the alliance. On a day-to-day basis, you will cooperate with a wide variety of passionate Zettlers making sellers’ everyday experience astonishing.
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What you’ll do:

Be an engaged coach, mentor, and partner for your teams
Make sure we attract, retain and develop top talent within the tech chapter
Create an environment where your teams can perform and have the necessary skills and mandate to work in a self-organized way
Drive cross-areas ways of working and help teams to remove the impediments they are not able to manage themselves
Empower teams to make decisions on how to accomplish and prioritize tech work
Work closely with Product and Design leaders to define roadmaps and metrics with a focus on outcome and incremental delivery
Ensure ways of working and processes are in place to support technical initiatives and continuous improvements, lead teams towards our technical tenets.
Lead changes within or outside of your chapter that spark your interest and the needs of Zettle.



The skills to create thrills
At Zettle, everyone thinks that it takes originality and an open mind to start a small business. That’s why small minds have no place in ours. As a leader, you have a wide experience in inspiring and managing software engineering teams. You will work in an agile ecosystem, delivering results and leading change.

We expect our leaders to take pride and have the experience to develop and grow our engineering culture and people, our strongest asset. Furthermore you:


Are a pragmatic and solution-oriented tech leader with a clear understanding of how to get things done the best and smoothest possible way
Have experience leading, coaching and mentoring high performing Engineering teams
Are comfortable working on large-scale challenges and taking full ownership of product experience
Have situational leadership, you can focus on details without losing sight of the big picture
Have experience working with complex products and capabilities and outlining strategies to remove ambiguity and lead teams through change
Have a growth mindset and ability to learn, adapt and manage change



Does this sound like you?
If yes, we’d love to hear from you and take things further! Go on, hit apply and let's #talk!

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We are all for equality for all
Tattoo artists. Dog groomers. Cake bakers. Jewlery makers. You name them - at Zettle - we help them. And to do that well, we need our people to be as unique and diverse as they are. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and together we uphold PayPal’s One Team Behaviour, striving to be a place where everyone can benefit from equal access to professional development, bring their whole self to work and most of all, feel like they belong.