Senior Software Engineer, Paddle
PHP/Go
+ Stock options
Payments, tax, and subscriptions solution for SaaS
Open for applications
Payments, tax, and subscriptions solution for SaaS
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help SaaS companies navigate the revenue journey at every stage.
Role
Who you are
- You have a development background with PHP
- You have some experience in Go or you are eager to learn it
- You have experience designing and building systems to handle high traffic at scale in a cloud-based environment in AWS
- You enjoy collaborating with our technical and non-technical departments
- You proactively find ways to improve the code and team processes
- You have a strong understanding of the development process - from design through to deployment, maintenance, and what that means for day-to-day development
- You take pride in what you build
- You are interested in what new tools and techniques you could introduce to us!
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer within our Payments Platform team, you'll play a key role in both maintaining and developing our critical checkout, tax, and payment systems
- You'll take the lead on tasks related to discovering new features and planning their implementation
- Additionally, you'll be actively involved in new projects, providing valuable technical expertise and shaping the future of our payments platform
- This role will involve contributing to the maintenance and evolution of our backend services
- You'll be responsible for the ongoing development and improvement of our checkout service built with Laravel and other Go services related to payments and tax
- While experience with Go is a plus, we're open to enthusiastic PHP developers who are eager to learn Go and contribute to its codebase
- Develop high traffic APIs used by hundreds of thousands users per month
- Engineer high-performance background workers for consuming queues
- Practise DevOps, you’re responsible for getting your code to production and supporting it
- Use the latest AWS services available to run your code
- Help design a stable platform to support phenomenal growth
- Mentoring and coaching other engineers
- Play a part in an agile team, either kanban or scrum as needed
- PHP and Laravel for checkout and our legacy system
- Go for our new services
- Docker in production and local development
- GRPC for internal services running on AWS Fargate
- AWS lambda for event-based services
- AWS SQS for our asynchronous message queues
- MySQL and Postgres for persistent data storage
- Redis for key/value store
- Terraform and Cloudformation for infrastructure management
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Software as a service (SaaS) is becoming the dominant way for new companies to sell their products. However, there are a number of interlinked tasks to build a great business. For example, setting up trials and licences, insights and analysis, payment gateways, taxes, and internationalisation.
Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure so that fast growth companies don't need to deal with this complicated puzzle. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, it acts as a Merchant of Record for customers, taking away the pain of payments fragmentation.
Now serving over 4,000 customers, and having entered the unicorn club in 2022, the company has clearly found its share of success. However, the assumption that pandemic-era growth could be sustained, coupled with runaway operational costs, has seen Paddle recently layoff a number of its staff. With this move, it hopes to control and reduce its spend, so as to face the effects of the economic downturn in stronger shape and sustain its future.
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
41% female employees
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Autonomy
"Paddlers are shown a lot of trust to get the job done. I've never experienced micro-management and have always been free to decide how to advance a..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2022
$200m
SERIES D
Nov 2020
$68m
SERIES C
Total funding: $291.2m
Company benefits
- Share options
- Private healthcare and mental health support
- Flexible time off
- Generous learning and development budget
- 17 weeks of fully paid parental leave for both moms and dads
- Work up to 45 days a year from a different country
- Discount annual train ticket/cycle to work scheme
- Home workstation budget
Company values
- Exceptional Together
- Better than Yesterday
- Execute with Impact
Company HQ
London, UK
Founders
Christian Owens
(Co-Founder & Executive Chairman)Founded Paddle after finishing school. A fellow of the Thiel Foundation, which gives $100,000 to young people to build businesses instead of going to university.
Harrison Rose
(Co-Founder)Founded Paddle at age 17, after finishing school, and has been both CSO and CCO at the company. Co-Founder and CEO of GoodFit.io.
People progressing
Joined as Event Manager and was promoted to Brand & Event Manager after 1 year. Bianca is now Head of Brand.
Diversity & Inclusion at Paddle
- We want to increase the opportunities for under-represented Paddlers - we are going to partner with third parties to widen our talent pools, and how we create opportunities internally for when new Padders join to give access to further careers and growth
- We’re already proud of the strides we’ve made around gender balance, especially at manager/leadership level and have a rich population of non British employees. Like most companies in our sector there is still much work to be done, but we’re ready and excited to bring about positive change
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