Principal Software Engineer

Your Team

You will work with a diverse team to help shape the future of our Engineering Department. You will shape the technology of the company while solving business problems and incorporating customer feedback.
You may use technologies such as Go, Java, Python, Kotlin, C#, to write maintainable, performant and high-quality code. We focus on continuous deployment and iterative delivery, to ensure that our code runs reliably on our infrastructure, allowing you to focus on delivering value to merchants in a fluid manner.

Your Mission

On a regular day as a Principal Software Engineer with us:

• You are a key influencer for strategic decisions in the company. You bring technology and industry context to business decisions;
• You are adept at building consensus and driving closure on contentious topics;
• You guide the career growth of the most senior technical talent in the company. You participate in performance evaluations and advocate for the careers of others;
• You write clean, secure, and well-tested code to solve business problems;
• You build tools and integrate systems to scale the effectiveness of products across the business;
• You collaborate and communicate effectively within the team and across the organisation to achieve the team’s goals;
• You identify intrinsically hard problems (e.g., major bottleneck or existing architectural complexity that slow down or prevent innovation, pose a critical business or security risk, undefined opportunity with potentially high impact.)
• You lead by example; you recognize that every solution you produce will be used as a role model for others;
• You create positive and lasting change on the architecture and technical abstractions of the company. You guide decisions to be intentional, incremental, and aligned toward long-term goals for the company.

Your Story

• You have 8+ years of experience as a software engineer leader;
• You have experience motivating colleagues at all levels;
• You have experience growing and scaling teams;
• You enjoy serving as a mentor and supporter for fellow developers and team-mates;
• You have experience with relational and non-relational databases;
• You are well-versed in using Containers for packaging your application;
• You can set up effective CI/CD pipelines;
• You can effectively use Git or other distributed SCM;
• You have previous experience in the Payments Industry would be a plus;
• You can operate services that the team builds while identifying opportunities for improvements and keeping to the agreed levels of service.

The Perks

• We trust you, so we offer flexible working hours, as long it suits both you and your team;
• Health Insurance;
• Meal Allowance;
• 25 days of Annual leave (+ Bank holidays);
• Public Transportation Card;
• Frequent team events & activities in the office and outside;
• Possibility to visit other company offices to meet colleagues in instances when travel is safe and appropriate;
• Competitive salary and enrollment in the Universal Stock Option Plan (USOP) from your first day. The USOP gives all employees the chance to be fellow company owners;
• Office snacks every day;
• Friendly, comfortable and informal office environment;
• We want to have the best people by our side - we can sponsor work visas and relocation processes for qualified professionals.