Software Engineer, Paddle
Payments
Plus stock options
Payments, tax, and subscriptions solution for SaaS
Job no longer available
Payments, tax, and subscriptions solution for SaaS
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
Plus stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help SaaS companies navigate the revenue journey at every stage.
Role
Who you are
- Have a solid development background with Go or PHP experience
- Have experience designing and building systems to handle high traffic at scale in a cloud-based environment in AWS
- Are someone who enjoys collaborating with our technical and non-technical departments
- Have a proactive attitude towards finding ways to improve the code and team processes
- A strong understanding of the development process - from design through to deployment, maintenance, and what that means for day-to-day development
- Are someone who takes pride in what you build
- Are interested in what new tools and techniques you could introduce to us!
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer in our Payments and Checkout Group, you’ll be developing features, testing hypotheses and rolling out changes to improve payment acceptance and checkout conversion
- Working closely with your team, you will impact how our Payments and Checkout technologies perform for our customers
- You’ll get to collaborate with multiple teams, alongside engineers, product managers, and designers
- Getting involved in a wide range of areas which will provide you with plenty of opportunities to develop your own skills and ultimately grow your career as a valued member of the engineering team
- Be a part of our Payments and Checkout group, working on projects that aim to improve payment acceptance, checkout conversion, global compliance and local acquiring. Using the data, you’ll have the opportunity to influence the team's success metrics
- Develop applications using one of our supported languages; Go and PHP
- Develop and work with high traffic APIs used by hundreds of thousands of users per month
- Collaborate on features to a high standard, pairing with other engineers when necessary, as well as working independently
- Practise DevOps, you’re responsible for getting your code to production, supporting and monitoring its performance via SLOs
- Use the latest AWS services available to run your code
- Test your and your team’s code, both manually and with unit and integration tests where applicable
- Help design a stable platform to support continuous growth
- Mentoring and coaching other engineers
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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