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.
As a Software Engineer in the Operations Enablement team, you will be a core contributor, building critical, high-impact systems that are essential to the Customer Lifecycle. You will focus on engineering solutions that directly impact how our customers manage their products and features, drive successful retention journeys, and ensure seamless data synchronization across our multiple platform ecosystem. You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of these systems, from initial ideation and contributing to technical design to implementation, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
You will be working within a cross-functional team, mentoring junior engineers and championing engineering excellence. You'll collaborate with our Product Manager and QA Engineer to deliver high-quality, impactful products.
What You Will DoContribute to Complex Workstreams: Take ownership of complex features and components within large-scale projects, consistently delivering high-quality, impactful results for the business.
Contribute to Technical Design: Participate actively in technical design discussions for the systems you work on, applying established architectural principles to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
Drive Engineering Excellence: Produce simple, robust, and well-tested code with very few defects. You will adhere to and champion best practices, proactively identify technical debt, and suggest improvements to engineering processes that improve team efficiency and code quality.
Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing: Mentor and act as a source of knowledge for junior teammates. You will take action to help others grow by explaining the "why" behind decisions and providing regular, constructive feedback.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proactively engage with a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders (including product, QA, operations, and other engineering teams) to clarify requirements and contribute to aligned solutions.
Problem-Solving & Delivery: Turn ambiguous problem descriptions into clear, actionable execution plans and deliver effective solutions to complex problems.
What You Will Bring
Strong Technical Expertise: Solid experience as a mid-level engineer, with strong knowledge of C# and some experience with front-end frameworks like Angular or React.
System Building & Design Principles: Proven experience in building scalable, resilient, and maintainable systems, and an ability to apply design and architectural principles, including experience with relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
Mentorship & Collaboration: A track record of collaborating effectively with and mentoring junior engineers.
Cloud Knowledge: Strong understanding of how to build, deploy, and operate services in a cloud-native environment.
Problem-Solving & Creativity: A mindset that thrives on ambiguity and adversity, consistently delivering creative, impactful, and fast solutions.
Cloud platforms: Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or other major cloud providers (AWS, Azure).
Event Driven System Design: Experience with an event driven architecture or familiarity with event sourcing.
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
