Company Mission
Payhawk is a leading global spend management solution for scaling businesses. Headquartered in London and combining company cards, reimbursable expenses and accounts payable into a single product; its future-facing technology enables finance teams to control and automate company spending at scale.
The Payhawk customer base includes fast-growing and mature multinational companies in 32 countries including LuxAir, Quantive, and Wagestream. With offices in New York, London, Berlin, Munich , Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, Vilnius and Sofia; Payhawk is backed by renowned investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks, QED Investors, Bek Ventures and Eleven Ventures.
Our values include supporting flat hierarchies, taking ownership and responsibility, seeking and providing feedback, managing constructive critique, and speaking our minds. We understand that the best ideas don’t all come from the same place, so we encourage diversity and inclusion in all areas of our work.
The future of fintech is about more than money, and we believe in work-life balance, continual learning, and empowered teams. We’re also on a journey to measure and improve our environmental and social impact. From virtual cards to digital subscriptions, our software and automation help take paper out of the equation for our customers, too.
We’re changing the world of payments, and we’re looking for an exceptional team to help us.
About the Role
To achieve our visionary goals, we are scaling up our robust engineering team and looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to meet the compelling challenges we face. Our product consists of many services that are not limited to a single technology so it’s important that you are technology agnostic and eager to learn new stuff. You’ll be responsible for delivering entire, highly complex features to production. As part of a team of talented and highly experienced individuals, you’ll have the opportunity to shape everything. Our goal is to produce the best solution for our customers.
Being part of the Payhawk team means that you’ll be developing a world-class product in the fast-growing fintech industry. We deliver an exceptional solution, and to continue doing so, we seek out the top 1% engineering talent.
Responsibilities
- Lead the build of new product features, as well as the enhancement and maintenance of existing ones.
- Participate in the entire software development lifecycle and play a key role in effective architecture design and implementation.
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to capture requirements and gain a strong business perspective on the features being implemented.
- Write highly scalable, high-performance, and maintainable code.
- Ensure code testability, code coverage, continuous integration, and backward compatibility.
- Contribute to the entire software development lifecycle, including frontend, backend, testing, deployment, as well as to the development of LLM-based functionalities where applicable.
Requirements
- Advanced programming experience and superior knowledge of programming languages and technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud, React, React Native, Apache Kafka.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field).
- 3+ years of relevant work experience.
- Experience with agile processes, continuous delivery, and continuous integration.
- Ability to multitask, organize, and prioritize work.
- Exceptional integrity and work ethic.
- Nice to have: Experience working with LLMs, AI-driven architectures, and autonomous agents, including vector databases, embedding models, and MLOps practices.
Company Benefits
- Competitive compensation package based on experience
- 30 days holiday paid leave
- One week exchange policy to another Payhawk office (London, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam)
- Flexible working hours and opportunity to work from home
- Regular team-wide events
- Additional medical care
- MultiSport card fully funded by us
- Company office massages
- Personal assistant service
- Opportunity to use the Payhawk product (that is, essentially, built by you)
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What We Do
Payhawk is one of the leading spend management solutions for domestic and international businesses throughout Europe, the US, and the UK. Combining company cards, reimbursable expenses, accounts payable, and seamless accounting software integrations into a single product, Payhawk makes business payments easy — for everyone. Payhawk helps customers in over 32 countries to maximise efficiency, control spending at scale, and stay agile. With offices in London, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, Vilnius, Sofia, and New York, Payhawk’s diverse customer base includes top names like LuxAir, Babbel, Vinted, Wallbox and Wagestream.
