Principal Engineer, Recharge.com
Branded alternative payments
Job no longer available
Branded alternative payments
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
Recharge's mission is to make online recharge of branded payments possible wherever it's needed in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of software development experience, with a minimum of 3 years in a principal, lead or architect role
- Experience mentoring and growing (senior) developers, preferably through convincing communication, not through reporting lines
- Excellent communication skills: demonstrated ability to use data to influence people and drive decisions
- Strong customer focus and passion for doing the right thing for the customer that also works for the business
- Deep and wide experience developing and operating business critical systems
- Proven hands-on experience in designing, building, improving and operating large scale, high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems in a fast growing environment
- Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in Service Oriented Architecture, migration and cloud
- Ability to design and solve complex business problems by writing simple, effective code
- Eager to work in multiple programming languages (e.g. php, typescript, python, Ruby on Rails) and frameworks and constantly striving to raise technical excellence
- Ability to convince, provide work direction and leadership to colleagues who do not directly report to this role
What the job involves
- Leading design of new features towards a distributed, large scale, global platform that has a direct impact on the business, and on the experience of Recharge.com's customers
- Serving as a tech lead on projects involving multiple teams across and beyond Product & Tech
- Hands-on developing proof of concepts and evaluating new technologies
- Implementing technical strategic decisions in cross functional teams
- Working closely with product managers and engineers to design, implement, and continually improve highly scalable, resilient applications and services
- Providing technical guidance to engineers of various career levels
- Maintaining a current understanding of industry and technology trends
- Communicating and enforcing technical standards
- Advising product and engineering leadership on achieving strategic business objectives
- Helping to align technical architecture directly between business needs, technical debt and resiliency
- Supporting and advising on hiring for senior engineering roles
- Strengthening the engineering community and coach senior engineers in their further development
- Driving long term technical strategy in line with long term business ambition and current realities
Application process
- 1. Apply: Want in? Let us know! Apply for a role and help us get to know your best self
- 2. Phone interview: One of our recruiters will get in touch to help you both understand if Recharge is the right next move for you
- 3. First interview: You’ll meet with your future line manager (either in person or online) to talk about you, our culture, and whether you're a fit for the job
- 4. Assignment & Second interview: Some roles involve a case study. Great! It’s your chance to shine and show us you have what it takes. You’ll present your case study to the Hiring Manager and someone from the Team
- 5. Third Interview: You’ll meet with a key member of the Management Team
- 6. Offer: You did it! There are only a few tickets available, and this one has your name on it. Welcome to the Team
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Branded payments come in the form of gift cards, mobile call credit, vouchers, or prepaid payment cards, and have been in operation for decades - but they’re experiencing something of a boom these days. They offer a great budget management strategy, as well as an anonymous way of making purchases online, and are an increasingly popular gift as smartphone penetration deepens and alternative payment methods become more popular. Recharge is a branded payments scaleup that’s taking advantage of this increased interest.
Recharge focus predominantly on partnerships with leading entertainment and telecom giants like Playstation, Netflix, Apple, and Orange, which is seeing them secure a substantial user base in their European market. They are not the only player here, however - North American behemoth Blackhawk Networks enjoys strong international reach, and with a number of major acquisitions under their belt will be sure to give Recharge a tough run for their money.
Recharge are wisely looking to capture the consumer side of the $3 trillion-valued branded payments market in order to retain an edge. The D2C model has been yielding great results across various industries in recent years, and with consumers more actively involved in branded payments than ever before, Recharge has taken the step to launch a global marketplace that will be available to 180 countries in 2023. Interestingly, Recharge.com is promoting this in tandem with its Pay Now, Buy Later scheme, subverting the traditional notions of prepaid gift cards and keeping itself relevant to consumers in the process.
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2021
$35m
SERIES B
Jun 2019
$22m
LATE VC
Total funding: $57m
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours
- MacBook Pro or PC
- Budget for noise-cancelling headphones, travel to and from the office, working-from-home and self-learning
- A daily allowance for a healthy lunch
- Regular parties, pub quizzes, bingo sessions, celebrations and other events
- Relocation packages available
Company values
- Make It Happen. If it needs to get done, it gets done.
- Act Like An Owner.
- Think Customers First.
- Make Smart Contributions.
- Focus & Embrace Change.
- Play As One.
Company HQ
Rijnbuurt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founders
Günther Vogelpoel
(CEO)A Stanford University School of Business graduate who went on to work as Executive Vice-President of Tele2 AB, and then CEO of Emesa Nederland BV.
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