Senior Software Engineer, Checkout.com
Golang, Payment Performance
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Old Street, London)
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
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Old Street, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a candidate who shows curiosity, friendliness, willingness to learn from others and takes responsibility in mentoring others
- The ideal candidate is curious and passionate about working in a team that focuses on building products to achieve the company's strategic goals
- We’re looking for individuals who have strong ownership, attention to detail and are comfortable converting big problems into smaller iterations to deliver value constantly
- Strong experience in designing, testing, implementing and documenting APIs and event based systems using Golang programming language
- Experience with monitoring of production systems, logs, events and analysis of them for maintenance and resolution of issues
- Enjoy learning new skills and researching the best tools for the job
- Knowledge of microservice architecture and design patterns
- Understanding TDD practices
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS
- Proven track record of translating business requirements into scalable software systems
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment workflows
- Superb communication skills, ability to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams
Desirable
- Proven ability to lead development efforts
- Solid understanding of HTTP, gRpc and RESTful design
- Payments or financial knowledge
- Knowledge of Docker and how to deploy using containers
- Strong customer focus, you build accessible applications with a great UX
- Understanding of common security vulnerabilities and performance issues in web applications, and knowing how to debug them
What the job involves
- We are seeking a skilled Backend Software Engineer to join our recently formed Payment Performance Pillar
- As part of our team, you will play a key role in developing and maintaining software that increases the overall number of successful payment attempts
- You'll be part of a team developing a suite of software products dedicated to enhancing payment performance
- This includes crafting optimization engines for payments as well as designing APIs to provide performance insights
- The projects heavily rely on data, bolstered by a dedicated team of data scientists
- Collaborating closely with them is integral to the role, ensuring seamless synergy between data-driven insights and project execution
- You’ll get to work with teams from across Checkout.com’s portfolio of products and services, as well as gain valuable insights from our commercial teams to deliver solutions that add value to them and our merchants
- Conduct detailed code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers. While also being able to take onboard feedback from others
- Partner with stakeholders both inside and outside of your core team to identify and refine requirements and specifications for key deliverables
- Organize and run planning sessions with your team, ensuring everyone is on the same page
- Take ownership and drive the delivery of strategic deliverables
- Create and maintain pipelines to support automated builds, tests, and deployments
- Support the creation and maintenance of technical documentation
- Supporting and mentoring more junior members of the team
- Contribute and adhere to our coding standards, best practices and procedures
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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