What do we do?
Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better. We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 3000 software sellers in 245 territories globally.
The role:
As a Software Engineer in our Payments and Checkout Group, you’ll be developing features, testing hypotheses and rolling out changes to improve payment acceptance and checkout conversion. Working closely with your team, you will impact how our Payments and Checkout technologies perform for our customers. You’ll get to collaborate with multiple teams, alongside engineers, product managers, and designers. Getting involved in a wide range of areas which will provide you with plenty of opportunities to develop your own skills and ultimately grow your career as a valued member of the engineering team.
Tech stack:
Go for our new services
PHP/Laravel and Python/Django for our classic system
Docker in production and local development
AWS ECS Fargate and AWS EKS for our runtime
AWS SQS for our asynchronous message queues
AWS Eventbridge for our event bus
Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL for persistent data storage
Redis for key/value store
Terraform for resource management
Cloudflare for our firewall and DNS server
What you'll do:
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. Using the data, you’ll have the opportunity to influence the team's success metrics.
Develop applications using one of our supported languages; Go and PHP
Develop and work with high traffic APIs used by hundreds of thousands of users per month
Collaborate on features to a high standard, pairing with other engineers when necessary, as well as working independently
Practise DevOps, you’re responsible for getting your code to production, supporting and monitoring its performance via SLOs
Use the latest AWS services available to run your code
Test your and your team’s code, both manually and with unit and integration tests where applicable
Help design a stable platform to support continuous growth
Mentoring and coaching other engineers
We'd love to hear from you if you:
Have a solid development background with Go or PHP experience
Have experience designing and building 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
Have a proactive attitude towards finding ways to improve the code and team processes
A strong understanding of the development process - from design through to deployment, maintenance, and what that means for day-to-day development
Are someone who takes pride in what you build
Are interested in what new tools and techniques you could introduce to us!
Everyone is welcome at Paddle
At Paddle, we’re committed to removing invisible barriers, both for our customers and within our own teams. We recognise and celebrate that every Paddler is unique and we welcome every individual perspective. As an inclusive employer, we don’t care if, or where, you studied, what you look like or where you’re from. We’re more interested in your craft, curiosity, passion for learning and what you’ll add to our culture. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t match every part of the job ad, especially if you’re part of an underrepresented group.
Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to better support you through the application process and in the workplace. We will do everything we can to support any accommodations needed.
We’re committed to building a diverse team where everyone feels safe to be their authentic self. Let’s grow together.
Why you’ll love working at Paddle
We are a diverse, growing group of Paddlers across the globe who pride ourselves on our transparent, collaborative and respectful culture. We live and breathe our values, which are:
Exceptional Together
Execute with impact
Better than Yesterday
We offer a full suite of benefits, including attractive salaries, stock options, retirement plans, private healthcare and well-being initiatives. We are a ‘digital-first’ company, which means you can work remotely, from one of our stylish hubs, or even a bit of both! We offer all team members unlimited holidays and enhanced parental leave. We invest in learning and will help you with your personal development via constant exposure to new challenges, an annual learning fund, and regular internal and external training.
