Staff Software Engineer, Checkout.com
Financial Experiences
3+ days a week in office
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
Job no longer available
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
Role
Who you are
- Expert level experience in designing and managing large, scalable, high throughput, highly available and fault-tolerant systems
- Dealing with data on high volume in a high availability production systems
- Expert level experience in Cloud-based application development (we use AWS)
- Strong understanding of NoSQL database scaling and data modeling
- Solid understanding and appreciation for software design and architecture
- Fluent with SQL
- Strong knowledge and appreciation for software design and architecture
- Enthusiastic about delivery and experience working in a fast-paced agile environment
- Desire to work on an exciting product suite within a fast scaling technical business
- Excellent practical knowledge of OOP concepts and SOLID principles
- Excellent communication skills, ability to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams
- Experience with financial technology or financial services or is a plus
- You lead the technical direction of a product/engineering pillar by having a deep understanding of the needs of the organization around you
- You influence this direction through a consensus based approach using your people leadership skills and technical expertise. You have a passion for designing and delivering high throughput distributed systems to solve critical business needs
- You take the long view towards the needs of the organization, seeing beyond the immediate requirements or timeframe. You are able to articulate this vision in a clear and concise manner that removes ambiguity
- You are able to identify and proactively take steps to raise the engineering standards of the product engineering pillar. You influence this through coaching, teaching and mentoring. You are a role model for other engineers
- You have excellent communication skills and an ability to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams
- You have experience working on financial systems and a basic understanding of finance and treasury
- You have experience of building cloud-based solutions
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer at Checkout.com in Financial Experiences, you will be providing expert technical leadership in the design of our cloud-based finance platform
- Help define the standards for our distributed architecture and work together with product and engineering leadership to define our technical and product roadmap
- Act as a coach and mentor, providing technical leadership to the engineering teams
- Financial Experiences is a product/engineering pillar responsible for providing funds management capabilities for value stored on the Checkout.com platform
- Working as part of a cross-functional product team to develop solutions
- Taking ownership for and leading on technical and architectural decisions
- Gathering requirements and scoping out projects with the rest of the team
- Mentoring and developing other members of the team
- Actively promoting innovative thinking, designing processes that encourage more ideation
- Acting as a filter balancing risk and reward in measurable ways
- Driving continuous improvement in the team
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
The payments industry has exploded in the last decade as eCommerce continues to grow as the use of cash falls. Checkout.com are building the go-to platform for all things related to payments, such as accepting transactions, processing them and detecting fraud. They've secured a steady stream of funding from top investors like Tiger Global Management, and are the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Patreon, Dashlane, Udacity, Wise, Sony Electronics, and Klarna.
They focus on large merchants and try to make their product as customisable as possible, so that companies integrate Checkout.com as an infrastructure partner in their product. This increases the stickiness of the product and creates many opportunities for them to generate revenue.
Checkout.com have high quality proprietary technology (their platform has been designed from the outset so they can easily deliver incremental services as they expand their offering) and claim to offer the most comprehensive cross-border payment solution for digital commerce.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
37% female employees
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
People of all backgrounds are welcomed
"DEIB is where Checkout.com takes it to the next level. This company is excellent at building a sense of belonging and celebrating people from all..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$1bn
SERIES D
Jan 2021
$450m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.8bn
Company benefits
- Additional day off on your birthday
- Learning scheme: 2 x Learning Days per year, financial support for external courses
- Internal employee communities and social clubs
- Employee-led community outreach, payroll giving and 2 x volunteering days
- Private comprehensive health insurance via BUPA (Medical history disregarded)
- 24 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Great Place to Work accredited in the UK and USA
- We proudly provide stock options to our high performing employees under our equity program
- Global Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Family Forming financial support in partnership with Carrot
- Leadership Development Training
- Pension scheme provided via Aegon (We match contributions up to certain amount!)
- Group Income Protection via AIG
- Private Dental Insurance provided via BUPA
- GymPass subscription
- Season Ticket Loan
- Cycle to Work Scheme (Up to £5,000)
Company values
- Aspire
- Excel
- Unite
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Founders
Guillaume Pousaz
(CEO)Previously founded NetMerchant, which sold European currencies to US merchants. Background in mathematical engineering.
People progressing
First joined as a Software Engineer, was promoted to Senior Software Engineer after 1.5 years and was then promoted to Engineering Lead 6 months later. Ignas is now a Senior Engineering Manager.
Betty joined in late 2019 as a Product Analyst. After just 8 months Betty was promoted to a Product Manager, before becoming a Senior Product Manager just 10 months later.
Diversity & Inclusion at Checkout.com
- Our IT Infrastructure Engineer, Sheryl Lingachetti, spoke to Zoë Schulz from myGwork - LGBTQ+ professionals & allies about trans rights in Mauritius, allyship and the support she has found in her workplace community 🏳️⚧️👇 https://www.attitude.co.uk/life/business/it-engineer-sheryl-on-coming-out-at-work-support-improves-productivity-for-everyone-442696/
- CTRL-ALT-CONNECT is Tech's latest community 🔥 We've partnered with our friends at Wise to create an inclusive community for people in tech to connect over conversation, networking and drinks. Last week we hosted our first panel discussion in our London office, which centred on the topic of Growth. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/checkout_tech-community-activity-7071841326060720129-qDOt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
- Our Pride Community provides a safe and welcoming space for our LGBTQIA+ colleagues and allies to connect, learn, and advocate for change. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/checkout_lifeatcheckout-activity-7074738991102611457-u7v5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
- Our Pride Community spoke with Adel Naamneh, VP of Solutions Engineering to learn about their experiences of being a member of LGBTQIA+ community and the importance of having corporate responsibility on hiring a diverse work force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0e9WUmNdVk&t=561s
- Read an interview hosted by The Black Young Professionals Network with the leaders of our Black Community: https://byp-network.com/news/314821
- Read more about the 'FinTech for all' charter, of which we were a founding signatory. The charter aims to create a speak up culture across FinTech, eliminating harassment and bullying: https://fintech.inchorus.org/
- Read this inspiring interview hosted by SheCanCode and one of our female QA Engineers: https://shecancode.io/blog/victoria-santiago-qa-engineer
- Our Principal Product Manager Yasmin, also sat down with SheCanCode on two inspiring articles: https://shecancode.io/blog/meet-yasmin-christie-checkout-principal-product-manager-an-inspirational-tech-career-journey and https://shecancode.io/blog/14-pieces-of-practical-product-management-guidance-from-checkout-part-2
- Plus, our Senior Engineering Manager Marina tells her story with SheCanCode: https://www.shecancode.io/blog/how-to-get-the-best-from-your-team-and-your-own-career-from-one-of-checkouts-engineering-leads
- And finally, our Graduates share some insights too: https://www.shecancode.io/blog/grad-programme-insider-tips-from-checkout
- Find out more information at our Diversity and Inclusion webpage: https://www.checkout.com/diversity-and-inclusion
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