Senior Engineering Team Lead - Payment Engine
Location: London
Department: Core Payments
We’re reinventing payments.
In less than four years, Dojo disrupted the market to become the largest and most loved acquirer in the UK. Our payments infrastructure, purpose-built for in-person commerce, is game changing.
Now, over 150,000 customers across four countries choose to transact billions with us every year.
But we’re just getting started.
Our people are the driving force behind our success. They are our greatest investment and our ultimate competitive advantage. We hire exceptional people and give them the autonomy, trust, and ownership to thrive. The results take care of themselves.
The role
Our mission is to decouple payments from hardware by building a world-class software payment engine that allows any partner or Dojo app to accept payments, on any device, anywhere. This is the core purpose of our Payment Engine team at Dojo. The technology you will build is fundamental to the future of our in-person payments ecosystem, enabling flexibility and choice for our customers and partners.
As the Engineering Team Lead for the Payment Engine team, you will be at the forefront of this mission. You will be building the next generation of our core payment technology: a world-class software payment engine that will be distributed as a robust SDK. This is a unique opportunity to shape our in-house payment acceptance technology from the ground up, creating the engine that allows any partner or Dojo app to accept payments, on any device, anywhere. The team is mixed discipline with Backend, Android and iOS engineers. We're looking for a delivery-focused leader with a deep background in payments and experience building secure, reliable, and scalable systems. If you are passionate about mentoring engineers and solving complex challenges through software, this is your opportunity to make a huge impact!
What you will do
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of backend (Go), Android and iOS engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and engineering excellence.
- Drive the technical execution and delivery of the team roadmap, ensuring your team ships high-quality, reliable software in an agile environment.
- Own the end-to-end design and development of our core Payment Engine, the software engine that will power payments across the entire Dojo ecosystem.
- Deliver robust and reliable SDKs for both internal teams and external partners to enable them to take payments on any device.
- Tackle complex challenges in payment security, data encryption, and compliance, ensuring our software meets the highest standards of trust and reliability.
- Take technical responsibility for the entire software development lifecycle, from architectural design to deployment and operational health in a high-availability environment.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers and leads of adjacent teams to align on strategy and deliver a cohesive product offering.
What you will bring
- Proven experience leading and mentoring engineers in a cross-functional environment (Backend/Mobile).
- Strong knowledge of back-end or mobile development.
- Experience building and maintaining scalable, high-availability systems.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern DevOps practices.
- A pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset with experience in agile methodologies and a strong belief in quality, automated testing, and CI/CD.
- A passion for solving complex problems and a product-centric approach to building software.
- A strong background in and understanding of payment systems, security principles, or PCI compliance.
Dojo home and away
We believe our best work happens when we collaborate in-person. These “together days” foster communication, drive innovation and spark our brightest ideas.
That's why we have an office-first culture. This means working from the office 4+ days per week.
With offices across Europe, we know a thing or two about staying dynamic. Need deep focus? Head to a quiet zone. Big ideas? Collaboration spaces have you covered. Just here for a catch-up? Our social hubs make it easy. Do work that counts, in spaces made for you.
Question: what’s curious, relentless, and customer obsessed?
If you’re keen to know the answer, you’re a third of the way to meeting our Dojo values.
If the following speak to you, let’s talk:
- You’re curious. You have a real desire to learn and create.
- You’re relentless. You keep going even when it’s easier not to.
- You’re customer-obsessed. You know how important customers are to what you do.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion at Dojo
From local bakeries to well-known eateries, Dojo payments serve over 150,000 places across the UK.
And something that’s fundamental to creating relevant, innovative products at Dojo is to build teams to reflect the diversity of the businesses we serve.
Our drive to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion is closely linked to helping employees thrive and innovating for better customer experiences.
If you care about your work, you’re curious, and you think customer-first, you have a place at Dojo.
To make sure you’re the best you can be throughout the recruitment process, let us know if you need any extra adjustments to help you thrive.
Visit dojo.careers to find out more about our benefits and what it’s like to work at Dojo, or check out our LinkedIn and Instagram pages.
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