Senior Software Engineer - Payments

Senior Software Engineer (Money Flows)

[Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] London Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home

The Engineering team at [Employer hidden] is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to play a crucial part in our team. As part of our diverse team spread across South America and Europe, the successful candidate will be entrusted with the development and optimisation of our multi-currency account systems, incoming funds, and outgoing payment processes. You'll be required to make significant contributions to our platform as we continually aim to bring it to the next level and deliver the best payment experience for our clients and operational teams.

As a Senior Software Engineer in our team, your technical knowledge and skills will be paramount to our innovation and growth. We value collaboration and commitment, operating within a distributed setup where effective working is key.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Discretionary bonus based on performance
• Being part of a dynamic environment, with global exposure
• Continued personal development through training and certification

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of the next iteration of our platform, designed to streamline cross-border payments and the international collection of funds.
• Collaborate with your colleagues and engineering leaders to design new services and components.
• Coach and mentor less experienced team members, positively changing the trajectory of the team to increase the overall effectiveness and efficiency.
• Lead product initiatives from analysis to delivery, working closely with the product and operational teams to ensure everyone is on the same page.

About you:

• You have extensive experience in developing complex software systems.
• Experience with Python, Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Kibana.
• Since you will work side by side with colleagues from different countries, you will be able to communicate clearly and concisely your ideas in English, both written and spoken.
• As we work closely with Product members, you should be able to collaborate with stakeholders to gather and clarify requirements, ensuring that technical solutions align with business objectives and user needs.
• You are adept at both constructing and managing services. As such, you should have proficiency in establishing standard APIs, incorporating monitoring systems and alerting services, along with a strong expertise in integrating external systems.
• Quality is important to us, we expect your code to be testable and well covered with unit and integration tests. We use CI Jenkins pipelines and terraform for the deployment of services and infrastructure. From time to time, you might need to contribute to it.
• In line with our 'You build it, you own it' philosophy, we expect you to take full ownership of the products you build, embracing both their development and ongoing maintenance.

If you’re excited about this job opportunity but your background doesn’t match exactly the requirements in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other positions we have.

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