Software Engineer

Summary

Join Paddle's Settlements team as a Software Engineer and contribute to the development of core ledger, commission, tax, and payout systems. You will work with a range of teams, collaborating on features from concept to rollout, primarily using Go (with some PHP migration). Responsibilities include developing and maintaining financially-critical systems, collaborating with colleagues, designing a stable platform, and practicing DevOps. The ideal candidate possesses a solid development background with Go, experience with high-traffic systems in AWS, and a collaborative spirit. Paddle offers a full suite of benefits, including attractive salaries, stock options, retirement plans, private healthcare, unlimited holidays, 4 months of paid family leave, and investment in personal development.

Requirements

• Have a solid development background with Go
• Have experience designing and building critical systems to handle high traffic at scale in a cloud-based environment in AWS
• Are someone who enjoys collaborating with our technical and non-technical departments

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain financially-critical systems used by a rapidly growing global customer base, processing hundreds of millions of dollars per month
• Working primarily with our backend systems written in Go, or at times migrating legacy services from PHP, collaborate on features from initial concept and planning, right through to rollout
• Collaborate with other engineers and non-technical colleagues, as well as working independently, with excellent written and verbal communication
• Design a stable and high quality platform with your team by implementing testing strategies, 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

• Have experience with PHP
• Have a proactive attitude towards finding ways to improve the code and team processes
• Are someone who takes pride in what you build
• Are intellectually curious about payments, finance, and infosec

Benefits

• Attractive salaries
• Stock options
• Retirement plans
• Private healthcare
• Well-being initiatives
• Work remotely
• Work from hubs
• Unlimited holidays
• 4 months of paid family leave
• Annual learning fund
• Regular internal and external training