Engineering Manager, Checkout.com
London
10%+ Bonus
3 days a week in office (Old Street)
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
Be an early applicant
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
10%+ Bonus
3 days a week in office (Old Street)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
Role
Who you are
- We're ideally looking for someone who is dedicated, upbeat, and truly believes in crafting clean, testable code
- Passionate about leading technical teams, being a leader as well as a manager
- Experience leading a multidisciplinary technical engineering team on technically and conceptually exciting problems
- Proven experience in recruiting or building and developing a team
- Experience in crafting and leading scalable, high-efficiency, or highly available systems
- Solid understanding of SDLC principles and Architectural and Design patterns for Backend and/or Frontend components
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment using DevOps principles
- Experience with cloud-based application development (we use AWS)
- Enjoy learning new skills and using the best tools for the job
- Experience with consumer-facing products and domains would be a bonus but is not a must
What the job involves
- Checkout.com, a leading fintech company, seeks an Engineering Manager to join its Merchant Services pillar
- This pillar, the largest engineering and product team at Checkout.com, is responsible for the complete customer journey, ensuring a seamless experience for merchants and customers throughout a payment's lifecycle
- Constructing world-class APIs: You'll lead the development of robust APIs for payment processing, orchestration, and outcome determination at CKO
- We strive to offer the industry's most complete, easy-to-integrate, maintainable, and transparent APIs
- This is as part of our Payment Routing and Pre-Processing teams
- Shaping the Customer Experience: You'll focus on two major objectives
- First, you'll enhance the user experience for payees by reducing friction in their checkout flow, ultimately boosting conversion rates
- Second, you'll deliver full-stack solutions that simplify integration, configuration, and compliance for our merchants across the Flow product suite
- Leadership mentality is crucial
- You'll drive an entire product component and mentor a brilliant team of engineers
- Manage and support our multidisciplinary team of engineers working on proprietary algorithms as well as help them advance in their careers
- Support the design, development, and delivery of new product features across our multi-stack ecosystem
- Take ownership of the architecture, solutions and the delivery of projects
- Uphold high standards for our uptime and latency requirements while not sacrificing the veracity of API responses
- Participate in maintaining the team’s cohesion and healthiness
- Handle our incident response and post-incident investigation processes; participate in on-call rotations
- Make critical choices in planning for the long-term vision of our infrastructure and its quality while not overengineering
- Maintain high-quality standards for code, infrastructure, and documentation
- Support the creation and maintenance of user documentation
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The payments industry has exploded in the last decade as eCommerce continues to grow as the use of cash falls. Checkout.com are building the go-to platform for all things related to payments, such as accepting transactions, processing them and detecting fraud. They've secured a steady stream of funding from top investors like Tiger Global Management, and are the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Patreon, Dashlane, Udacity, Wise, Sony Electronics, and Klarna.
They focus on large merchants and try to make their product as customisable as possible, so that companies integrate Checkout.com as an infrastructure partner in their product. This increases the stickiness of the product and creates many opportunities for them to generate revenue.
Checkout.com have high quality proprietary technology (their platform has been designed from the outset so they can easily deliver incremental services as they expand their offering) and claim to offer the most comprehensive cross-border payment solution for digital commerce.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
37% female employees
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
People of all backgrounds are welcomed
"DEIB is where Checkout.com takes it to the next level. This company is excellent at building a sense of belonging and celebrating people from all..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$1bn
SERIES D
Jan 2021
$450m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.8bn
Company benefits
- Additional day off on your birthday
- Learning scheme: 2 x Learning Days per year, financial support for external courses
- Internal employee communities and social clubs
- Employee-led community outreach, payroll giving and 2 x volunteering days
- Private comprehensive health insurance via BUPA (Medical history disregarded)
- 24 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Great Place to Work accredited in the UK and USA
- We proudly provide stock options to our high performing employees under our equity program
- Global Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Family Forming financial support in partnership with Carrot
- Leadership Development Training
- Pension scheme provided via Aegon (We match contributions up to certain amount!)
- Group Income Protection via AIG
- Private Dental Insurance provided via BUPA
- GymPass subscription
- Season Ticket Loan
- Cycle to Work Scheme (Up to £5,000)
Company values
- Aspire
- Excel
- Unite
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Guillaume Pousaz
(CEO)Previously founded NetMerchant, which sold European currencies to US merchants. Background in mathematical engineering.
People progressing
First joined as a Software Engineer, was promoted to Senior Software Engineer after 1.5 years and was then promoted to Engineering Lead 6 months later. Ignas is now a Senior Engineering Manager.
Betty joined in late 2019 as a Product Analyst. After just 8 months Betty was promoted to a Product Manager, before becoming a Senior Product Manager just 10 months later.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Checkout.com
- Our IT Infrastructure Engineer, Sheryl Lingachetti, spoke to Zoë Schulz from myGwork - LGBTQ+ professionals & allies about trans rights in Mauritius, allyship and the support she has found in her workplace community 🏳️⚧️👇 https://www.attitude.co.uk/life/business/it-engineer-sheryl-on-coming-out-at-work-support-improves-productivity-for-everyone-442696/
- CTRL-ALT-CONNECT is Tech's latest community 🔥 We've partnered with our friends at Wise to create an inclusive community for people in tech to connect over conversation, networking and drinks. Last week we hosted our first panel discussion in our London office, which centred on the topic of Growth. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/checkout_tech-community-activity-7071841326060720129-qDOt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
- Our Pride Community provides a safe and welcoming space for our LGBTQIA+ colleagues and allies to connect, learn, and advocate for change. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/checkout_lifeatcheckout-activity-7074738991102611457-u7v5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
- Our Pride Community spoke with Adel Naamneh, VP of Solutions Engineering to learn about their experiences of being a member of LGBTQIA+ community and the importance of having corporate responsibility on hiring a diverse work force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0e9WUmNdVk&t=561s
- Read an interview hosted by The Black Young Professionals Network with the leaders of our Black Community: https://byp-network.com/news/314821
- Read more about the 'FinTech for all' charter, of which we were a founding signatory. The charter aims to create a speak up culture across FinTech, eliminating harassment and bullying: https://fintech.inchorus.org/
- Read this inspiring interview hosted by SheCanCode and one of our female QA Engineers: https://shecancode.io/blog/victoria-santiago-qa-engineer
- Our Principal Product Manager Yasmin, also sat down with SheCanCode on two inspiring articles: https://shecancode.io/blog/meet-yasmin-christie-checkout-principal-product-manager-an-inspirational-tech-career-journey and https://shecancode.io/blog/14-pieces-of-practical-product-management-guidance-from-checkout-part-2
- Plus, our Senior Engineering Manager Marina tells her story with SheCanCode: https://www.shecancode.io/blog/how-to-get-the-best-from-your-team-and-your-own-career-from-one-of-checkouts-engineering-leads
- And finally, our Graduates share some insights too: https://www.shecancode.io/blog/grad-programme-insider-tips-from-checkout
- Find out more information at our Diversity and Inclusion webpage: https://www.checkout.com/diversity-and-inclusion
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