Backend Engineer, Proton

Payments

Salary not provided

+ Stock Options

PHP
SQL
React
Kubernetes
TypeScript
JavaScript
Redis
iOS
Linux
Android
Kotlin
Swift
Ansible
MySQL
Rust
Puppet
JIRA
Confluence
Symfony
REST API
Mid and Senior level
Barcelona
London
Paris
Proton

Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services

Open for applications

Proton

Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services

501-1000 employees

B2CB2BPrivacyCyber Security

Open for applications

Salary not provided

+ Stock Options

PHP
SQL
React
Kubernetes
TypeScript
JavaScript
Redis
iOS
Linux
Android
Kotlin
Swift
Ansible
MySQL
Rust
Puppet
JIRA
Confluence
Symfony
REST API
Mid and Senior level
Barcelona
London
Paris

501-1000 employees

B2CB2BPrivacyCyber Security

Company mission

To fight for a better internet that is secure and private by default.

Role

Who you are

  • This particular team requires someone who is a strong generalist, who thrives with ambiguity
  • Proven experience with back-end development
  • Expertise in building scalable, high-performance solutions
  • Proficiency with profiling techniques and performance optimization tools
  • Experience leading a team initiative from discovery to production
  • Strong understanding of SQL (MySQL preferred) and data modeling best practices
  • Familiarity with Redis or other caching technologies for performance optimization
  • Knowledge of security best practices and experience implementing secure software solutions
  • In-depth understanding of HTTP/REST, including both the development and consumption of web-based APIs
  • Solid grasp of cryptographic concepts, including key exchange, and the distinction between symmetric and asymmetric encryption

Desirable

  • Experience within the payments domain
  • Experience with iOS or Android app development
  • Experience with managing Linux servers, including infrastructure as code (Puppet, Ansible) and containerization
  • Experience with frontend design and development (JavaScript, React and Typescript)

What the job involves

  • The goal of the Payments team is to enable revenue generation for the entire Proton ecosystem
  • This comes in the form of introducing new payment methods for users to architecting our client libraries
  • This team has impact across all of Proton's products and is critical to the success of the business as a whole
  • As Proton is a global Company, the Payments Team works to continuously expand the possibilities for users to pay with various payment methods, beyond just plain credit cards or Paypal
  • The team works in tight collaboration with the Account Team (responsible for the Proton user lifecycle), the Proton Finance team, and every single Business Unit to ensure that plans, promotions and pricing meet user expectations
  • The mission of the team is to empower anyone in the world who wish to use Proton services, to become a Proton subscriber by building enticing interfaces, being able to progressively reach global markets, by providing the methods and tooling allowing users to pay, and for the Proton organization to properly being able to measure growth, and to follow the relative financial regulations
  • With payments being the backbone of any subscription business, we have ambitious plans to expand the team to cover a wide breadth of topics ranging from demystifying payment performance data across regions/products, to thinking about the holistic strategy of product catalogs, and everything in between
  • Build features in all of Proton's products
  • Close interactions with products and engineers across the company
  • Build scalable software architecture through software engineering best practices
  • Optimise user experience and design
  • Hiring at Proton is highly selective, with less than 1% of candidates hired. We believe smaller teams of exceptional talent will always prevail over larger teams with lower talent density. You will have the opportunity work with many of the world's top minds in their fields, ranging from former international math and science olympiad winners to chess champions

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Top investors

12% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • These vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events, and team-building activities.

Our take

Proton is a Geneva-based startup founded by former CERN worker and internet privacy advocate Andy Yen. It provides internet users with encrypted webmail, calendar, drive, and VPN services.

Proton maintains its pro-privacy ethos using a Swiss VPN, protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. In essence, it has established a connection between the personal and the political, smartly utilising the country’s national laws to benefit people and organisations globally. Proton also funds charities and movements such as the World Wide Web Foundation and Netblocks, further cementing it as an influential NGO.

Perhaps Proton’s most important quality is its determination to maintain independence from advertisers and companies. Originally founded on donations, Proton has funded itself via grants rather than venture capital so that all of its customer's data is never at risk of being mined. One effect of this is that to keep up with the increasing competition in the data privacy sector, Proton has expanded its services to allow more cross-selling and simultaneously has more products to offer, such as drive and calendar privacy.

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