Engineering Manager

Job title:

Engineering Manager

Company

Checkout.com

Job description

Company DescriptionCheckout.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 DescriptionCheckout.com, a leading fintech company, seeks an Engineering Manager to join its Merchant Services pillar. This pillar, the largest engineering and product team at Checkout.com, is responsible for the complete customer journey, ensuring a seamless experience for merchants and customers throughout a payment’s lifecycle.In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to focus on one of two key areas:

• Constructing world-class APIs: You’ll lead the development of robust APIs for payment processing, orchestration, and outcome determination at CKO. We strive to offer the industry’s most complete, easy-to-integrate, maintainable, and transparent APIs. This is as part of our Payment Routing and Pre-Processing teams.
• Shaping the Customer Experience: You’ll focus on two major objectives. First, you’ll enhance the user experience for payees by reducing friction in their checkout flow, ultimately boosting conversion rates. Second, you’ll deliver full-stack solutions that simplify integration, configuration, and compliance for our merchants across the Flow product suite.

Leadership mentality is crucial. You’ll drive an entire product component and mentor a brilliant team of engineers. We’re ideally looking for someone who is dedicated, upbeat, and truly believes in crafting clean, testable code.How you’ll make an impact

• Manage and support our multidisciplinary team of engineers working on proprietary algorithms as well as help them advance in their careers
• Support the design, development, and delivery of new product features across our multi-stack ecosystem
• Take ownership of the architecture, solutions and the delivery of projects
• Uphold high standards for our uptime and latency requirements while not sacrificing the veracity of API responses
• Participate in maintaining the team’s cohesion and healthiness
• Handle our incident response and post-incident investigation processes; participate in on-call rotations
• Make critical choices in planning for the long-term vision of our infrastructure and its quality while not overengineering
• Maintain high-quality standards for code, infrastructure, and documentation
• Support the creation and maintenance of user documentation

QualificationsWhat we’re looking for

• Passionate about leading technical teams, being a leader as well as a manager
• Experience leading a multidisciplinary technical engineering team on technically and conceptually exciting problems
• Proven experience in recruiting or building and developing a team
• Experience in crafting and leading scalable, high-efficiency, or highly available systems
• Solid understanding of SDLC principles and Architectural and Design patterns for Backend and/or Frontend components
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment using DevOps principles
• Experience with cloud-based application development (we use AWS)
• Enjoy learning new skills and using the best tools for the job
• Experience with consumer-facing products and domains would be a bonus but is not a must

Additional InformationJoin 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 statementIf 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 opportunitiesWe 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 Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/checkout_com/

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:00:39 GMT

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