We’re reinventing payments.
In less than four years, Dojo disrupted the market to become the largest and most loved acquirer in the UK. Our payments infrastructure, purpose-built for in-person commerce, is game changing.
Now, over 150,000 customers across four countries choose to transact billions with us every year.
But we’re just getting started.
Our people are the driving force behind our success. They are our greatest investment and our ultimate competitive advantage. We hire exceptional people and give them the autonomy, trust, and ownership to thrive. The results take care of themselves.
The Role
We are looking for a strategic leader to head our Core Infrastructure team and help us define the future of our internal platform. We believe in empowering our engineering teams by removing friction and automating the heavy lifting. In this role, we want you to be the catalyst that transforms our infrastructure into a competitive advantage, ensuring delivery is sustainable, scalable, and healthy.
We are a high-autonomy team that champions the "Infrastructure as a Product" mindset. We design, build, and maintain self-service solutions that significantly reduce cognitive load for our product teams. We are passionate about fostering a culture of psychological safety, technical excellence, and continuous improvement, and we need a like-minded leader to help us grow.
What you will do
- Cultivate a high-performing environment where we nurture our talent through coaching, feedback, and autonomy.
- Champion the Developer Experience (DevEx) by deeply understanding our users' pain points and prioritising solutions that make shipping code a joy.
- Lead the design and maintenance of core infrastructure products for a self serve platform that empower product teams to move fast without breaking things.
- Drive key architectural decisions and streamline processes to ensure our platform is efficient, secure, and cost-effective.
- Partner with stakeholders and engineering teams to translate complex business needs into robust, scalable technical solutions.
- Own the delivery of impactful initiatives, balancing the need for speed with the necessity of reliability and long-term health.
What you will bring
- A product-first mindset with a relentless focus on solving real problems for internal developers (our customers).
- Experience leading Platform, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams with a focus on servant leadership and growth.
- Deep technical understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, specifically Kubernetes, Identity and Access Management (IAM), public cloud (GCP or AWS) and managed databases.
- Proficiency in designing and maintaining Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and GitOps workflows.
- Pragmatic decision-making skills, balancing trade-offs between urgency, complexity, and scalability.
- Proven experience with the modern Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for infrastructure, with hands-on expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and desirably programming skills in a language such as Golang.
Dojo home and away
We believe our best work happens when we collaborate in-person. These “together days” foster communication, drive innovation and spark our brightest ideas.
That's why we have an office-first culture. This means working from the office 4+ days per week.
With offices across Europe, we know a thing or two about staying dynamic. Need deep focus? Head to a quiet zone. Big ideas? Collaboration spaces have you covered. Just here for a catch-up? Our social hubs make it easy. Do work that counts, in spaces made for you.
Question: what’s curious, relentless, and customer obsessed?
If you’re keen to know the answer, you’re a third of the way to meeting our Dojo values.
If the following speak to you, let’s talk:
- You’re curious. You have a real desire to learn and create.
- You’re relentless. You keep going even when it’s easier not to.
- You’re customer-obsessed. You know how important customers are to what you do.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion at Dojo
From local bakeries to well-known eateries, Dojo payments serve over 150,000 places across the UK.
And something that’s fundamental to creating relevant, innovative products at Dojo is to build teams to reflect the diversity of the businesses we serve.
Our drive to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion is closely linked to helping employees thrive and innovating for better customer experiences.
If you care about your work, you’re curious, and you think customer-first, you have a place at Dojo.
To make sure you’re the best you can be throughout the recruitment process, let us know if you need any extra adjustments to help you thrive.
Visit dojo.careers to find out more about our benefits and what it’s like to work at Dojo, or check out our LinkedIn and Instagram pages.
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What We Do
Since launching in 2019 to address business owners’ pain points across the UK, we’ve seen incredible growth as a scaling fintech, welcoming over 150,000 customers and growing the Dojo team to 1,000+ people across five locations. In that time, we’ve also introduced Dojo Virtual Queues & Bookings and the Dojo restaurant finder app, formerly known as WalkUp and loved by 1,000 restaurants and 750,000 diners. Today, we work towards our mission to empower businesses to thrive in the Experience Economy by creating the tools and technology that turn transactions into meaningful relationships. For our business customers, that means fast funding, the fastest payments, smart integrations, and efficient virtual queues & bookings - all with instant insight across the board. For diners, that means getting seated at their favourite restaurants in just a couple of taps on the Dojo app. Whether it’s for busy business owners or hungry diners, every Dojo product is built to address real customer pain points by our dedicated teams in London, Bristol, Hull and Belfast
