Role overview

Backend Software Engineer [Senior] [Remote- EMEA]

Requirements and responsibilities

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What we're looking for

  • Respect. We are a global team - we value the diversity of humanity and seek the good in people. We expect you to be empathetic and cultivate respectful relationships with others.
  • Humility: We welcome open discussion and candid feedback, and expect all candidates to arrive ego-free and with a commitment to better themselves and others.
  • Flexibility: Being comfortable with fast-paced working environments is a must. We seek a highly motivated self-starter that can quickly get up to speed and rise to any challenge.
  • Willingness to learn: We search for champions of learning with a growth mindset. Mistakes are celebrated and part of our road to success.

What you will be doing

  • Design and implement highly secure, fault-tolerant APIs and distributed systems architecture
  • Collaborate in a multidisciplinary environment to rapidly iterate and prototype digital products
  • Write clean, well-organized, and fully documented code
  • Make strategic, proactive decisions on maintaining and upgrading projects
  • Work with limited oversight on iterating existing codebases
  • Working in close collaboration with infrastructure and frontend teams
  • Taking ownership of key technology decisions, building for scale and high performance
  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless deployment and integration processes
  • Conducting code reviews and continuously looking at ways of improving our ways of working
  • Develop deep payments expertise, and always looking for ways to optimize our merchant developer experience
  • Create detailed internal documentation for the projects you work on
  • Work with and lead a small group of talented engineers to create reliable and highly secure products
  • Take full accountability for project delivery and system performance in a fast-paced environment

Technical Skills & Requirements

  • A high degree of empathy and learning capacity
  • Senior experience building high-performance distributed systems and scalable architectures
  • Strong command of technologies such as, but not limited to, Django, Django Rest Framework, Postgres, Redis
  • Experience with CI/CD pipeline management and deployment automation
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Familiarity with GitOps practices and tools like ArgoCD for deployment management
  • Experience in using modern development practices such as DDD, BDD, and TDD would be highly advantageous
  • Passion for beautiful and well-tested code
  • In-depth understanding of the entire development process (design, development, and deployment)
  • Experience working in product companies, preferably in fintech or payment infrastructure
  • Experience working in a small team, fast-paced startup environment
  • Highly motivated self-starter who values autonomy and getting things done
  • Strong accountability mindset with ability to own end-to-end delivery
  • Payment infrastructure experience is a significant plus
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