Staff Software Engineer

Checkout.com is one of the most exciting fintechs in the world. Our mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. We’re the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Wise, The Hut Group, Sony Electronics, Sainsbury’s, Deliveroo, Adidas, Klarna and many others. Purpose-built with performance and scalability in mind, our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it’s not just what we build that makes us different. It’s how.

We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work. That’s why we’re on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and a Great Place to Work accredited company. And we’re just getting started. We’re building diverse and inclusive teams around the world — because that’s how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners. And we need your help. Join us to build the digital economy of tomorrow.

Job Description

As a Staff Engineer at Checkout.com in Operations and Compliance Services, you will be providing expert technical leadership in the design and build of cloud-based software that ensures we only serve legitimate businesses and prevent our payments platform from being used in service of financial crimes or money laundering.

You will help define the standards for our distributed architecture and work together with product and engineering leadership to define our technical and product roadmap. You are an expert in distributed systems and will act as a coach and mentor, providing technical leadership to the engineering teams.

Our product suite has a range of responsibilities including smooth merchant onboarding, secure authentication for our users and external systems, transaction screening and more.

With Checkout.com’s fast-paced growth and complex business domain, we thrive in the ongoing challenges of preventing financial crime through data availability, integrity, and scalability.

Qualifications

About you:

• Expert level experience in designing and managing large, scalable, high throughput, highly available and fault-tolerant systems
• Expert level experience in Cloud-based application development (we use AWS)
• Expert level experience using the Microsoft stack, specifically .NET Core
• Strong understanding of NoSQL database scaling and data modeling
• 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
• Solid understanding of HTTP and RESTful design
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL
• Experience with Unit and Integration testing
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment workflows
• Solid experience in Software Development, Design, and Architecture
• Excellent communication skills, ability to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborate on the architectural design for our cloud based systems
• Mentor and upskill engineers, providing technical guidance and best practise
• Research new technologies and prototype potential solutions for performance, scalability, resilience and availability.
• Look for opportunities to improve architectural design patterns, initiating change to remove complexity
• Assist in requirements identification and in producing specifications
• Collaborate with globally distributed and multidisciplinary teams
• Design, develop, and deliver new features on our RESTful API and related services
• Create and maintain a development environment for efficient testing and integration
• Support the creation and maintenance of technical documentation
• Encourage recommendations for continuous improvement of the SDLC from team members
• Contribute to the definition of coding standards, best practices, and procedures