Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Paddle's Payments and Checkout Group as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to improving payment acceptance and checkout conversion. You will develop features, test hypotheses, and roll out changes impacting our customers. Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers across multiple teams. This role offers opportunities for skill development and career growth within a high-traffic, event-driven system. You will be responsible for the entire development lifecycle, from design and deployment to maintenance and monitoring. Paddle offers a full suite of benefits, including attractive salaries, stock options, retirement plans, private healthcare, unlimited holidays, enhanced parental leave, and a learning fund.

Requirements

• Have a solid development background with Go
• Have experience designing and building systems to handle high traffic at scale in a cloud-based environment in AWS
• A strong understanding of the development process - from design through to deployment, maintenance, and what that means for day-to-day development

Responsibilities

• Be a part of our Payments and Checkout group, working on projects that aim to improve payment acceptance, checkout conversion, global compliance and local acquiring
• Contribute high-quality Go code in a large codebase, in both existing and brand new services
• Collaborate on features to a high standard from initial concept and planning, right through to rollout, with other engineers and non-technical colleagues, and with excellent written and verbal communication
• Level-up the team’s engineering practices through mentoring other engineers, and by leading the technical planning of team initiatives
• Help to continuously improve the reliability and scalability of Paddle’s high-traffic event-driven system
• Improve the team’s software quality by implementing automated tests, and also by having an eye for edge-cases and system design
• Practise DevOps: you’re responsible for getting your code to production, supporting and monitoring its performance, and helping to keep our AWS infrastructure efficient

Preferred Qualifications

• Are someone who enjoys collaborating with our technical and non-technical departments
• Have a proactive attitude towards finding ways to improve the code and team processes
• Are someone who takes pride in what you build
• Are interested in what new tools and techniques you could introduce to us!

Benefits

• Attractive salaries
• Stock options
• Retirement plans
• Private healthcare
• Well-being initiatives
• Remote work
• Unlimited holidays
• Enhanced parental leave
• Annual learning fund
• Regular internal and external training