Company Description
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 Merchant Services, you will provide expert technical leadership in the design and build of cloud-based software that ensures the best possible experience for Merchants and Customers across our Acquiring and Payout products and services.
You will help define the standards for our distributed architecture and collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to shape our roadmap. As an expert in distributed systems with a strong commitment to exceptional user experiences, you will act as a coach and mentor, providing technical leadership and guidance to the engineering teams.
Our product suite encompasses a diverse set of responsibilities, including ensuring seamless payment checkout experiences across web and mobile platforms, enhancing payment security through robust authentication flows, empowering merchants to manage chargebacks effectively, and continuously evolving the Dashboard, our merchant-facing portal, among many other features.
With Checkout.com’s fast-paced growth and complex business domain, we thrive in the ongoing challenges of empowering businesses through exceptional performance, actionable insights, seamless UX, and scalable systems.
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
Additional Information
Join Us Today!
If you're passionate about technology, innovation, and making a real impact in the world of digital payments, we want to hear from you. Join our engineering department at Checkout.com and be part of a team that's shaping the future of payments for generations to come.
Apply now and let's embark on this exciting journey together!
Hybrid Working Model: All of our offices globally are onsite 3 times per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). We’ve worked towards enabling teams to work collaboratively in the same space, while also being able to partner with colleagues globally. During your days at the office, we offer amazing snacks, breakfast, and lunch options in all of our locations.
Apply without meeting all requirements statement
If you don't meet all the requirements but think you might still be right for the role, please apply anyway. We're always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.
We believe in equal opportunities
We work as one team. Wherever you come from. However you identify. And whichever payment method you use.
Our clients come from all over the world — and so do we. Hiring hard-working people and giving them a community to thrive in is critical to our success.
When you join our team, we’ll empower you to unlock your potential so you can do your best work. We’d love to hear how you think you could make a difference here with us.
We want to set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable. We’ll be happy to support you.
Take a peek inside life at Checkout.com via
- Our Culture video https://youtu.be/BEwnpHuadSw
- Our careers page https://www.checkout.com/careers
- Our LinkedIn Life pages bit.ly/3OaoN1U
- Our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/checkout_com/
Checkout.com Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Checkout.com and has not been reviewed or approved by Checkout.com.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, employer-paid life/AD&D, an Employee Assistance Program, and wellness initiatives spanning classes, awareness sessions, and mental health champions. Pet insurance and discounted gym options further reinforce health and wellbeing support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes substantial vacation allowances, dedicated sick time that covers mental and physical health needs, a paid volunteer day, and a birthday day off. A hybrid working model and flexible arrangements complement the leave structure to support work-life balance.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee share buyback program provided liquidity and explicitly recognized employee contributions. Equity eligibility alongside performance bonuses is referenced as part of total rewards.
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What We Do
We’re Checkout.com. We work with global companies like eBay, ASOS, Klarna, Uber Eats, and Sony, to power their payments from behind the scenes. With a global digital network and extensive expertise, our mission is to help businesses thrive with high-performing payments. Because when payments just work, businesses grow, customers stay, and no one stops to think about why. We have the energy of a start-up on a global scale, with 19 offices across six continents and a HQ in London. All of our people are driven, ambitious, and performance-obsessed, because working here is a chance to grow faster than anywhere else, and build the future of fintech. Find out more about our team here: https://www.checkout.com/careers
Why Work With Us
We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work.
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