Platform Engineer II

Location: London

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Company Description

We’re Checkout.com – you might not know our name, but companies like eBay, ASOS, Klarna, Uber Eats, and Sony do. That moment when you check out online? We make it happen.

Checkout.com is where the world checks out. Our global network powers billions of transactions every year, making money move without making a fuss. We spent years perfecting a service most people will never notice. Because when digital payments just work, businesses grow, customers stay, and no one stops to think about why.

With 19 offices spanning six continents, we feel at home everywhere – but London is our HQ. Wherever our people work their magic, they’re fast-moving, performance-obsessed, and driven by being better every day. Ideal. Because a role here isn’t just another job; it’s a career-defining opportunity to build the future of fintech.

Job Description

We are a team responsible for maintaining and evolving a Payment Orchestration Platform called ProcessOut.

This platform was acquired by Checkout.com in March 2020 and is already powering many large and famous brands like Glovo, NordVPN, and Bolt (with many more that we can’t name and even more to come).

We are a self-sufficient team that operates in a fully agile way. Our Product and Engineering teams support us, and we all build and evolve our product together.

Our backend services are written in Go, backed by multiple data stores (Redis, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, Postgres…), and our platform spans multiple AWS regions. We run multiple Kubernetes (EKS) clusters per region, fronted by Envoy edge proxies routing globally. We use Terraform for Infrastructure as Code. Datadog is extensively used for monitoring and alerting.

We are experiencing constant growth in the number of handled transactions, new clients and integrations. That’s why we pay close attention to the elegant design and scalability of the platform. We are looking for dedicated engineers with a drive to own and improve solutions who want to join us on our journey.

About you

• Have experience with AWS and it’s services

• Have experience with running and managing Kubernetes

• Have experience with service mesh, i.e preferably Istio & Envoy

• Proficient in a programming language, we use Golang

• Have experience of implementing CI/CD pipelines and best practices around it

• Care about writing clean, modular, and tested infrastructure-as-code (terraform).

Bonus points for

• Good knowledge of cloud network infrastructure design and troubleshooting

• Instrumentation experience with Datadog

• Load and chaos testing

• Security-first mindset and past experience in reviewing and improving security and best practices. 

What will you be doing

• Collaborate with passionate technologists across multiple disciplines while evolving our platform and increasing security, resiliency and scalability.

• Work to create and distribute best practices for future-proof service development to the rest of the team.

• Continuously evaluate the team’s workflow and contribute to its improvement and automation.

• Join an on call rotation which is shared between team members.

Bring all of you to work 

We create the conditions for high performers to thrive – through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one.

Here, you’ll move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and be recognized for the impact you deliver. It’s a place where ambition gets met with opportunity – and where your growth is in your hands.

We work as one team, and we back each other to succeed. So whatever your background or identity, if you’re ready to grow and make a difference, you’ll be right at home here.

It’s important we 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.
 

Life at Checkout.com

We understand that work is just one part of your life. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection.

Curious about what it’s like to be part of our team? Visit our Careers Page to learn more about our culture, open roles, and what drives us.

For a closer look at daily life at Checkout.com, follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram