Senior Data Platform Engineer, Checkout.com
Streaming
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3+ days a week in office
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
Open for applications
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone who can go deep on a few of the components, but have (or can acquire) a wide working knowledge of the rest
- Strong engineering background with a track record of implementing and owning components of a data platform
- Experience working with stream technologies, ideally Kafka, but Kinesis, Pulsar or similar would also be applicable
- Experience designing and implementing stream processing applications (kStreams, kSQL, Flink, Spark Streaming)
- Experience with Data Warehousing tools like Snowflake / Bigquery / Databricks, and building pipelines on these
- Experience working with modern cloud-based stacks such as AWS, Azure or GCP
- Excellent programming skills with at least one of Python, Java, Scala or C#
- You’re a mentor, raising the bar for your colleagues
- You’re a collaborator, always ready to dive in and partner to solve tough problems
- You’re a listener, and seek to understand the underlying problems, before pitching solutions
- You are outspoken and able to drive through best practices by taking teams and organisations as a whole with you
- You are a thought leader, so we’d love to see articles, podcasts, meetups or conference talks if you’ve done them
What the job involves
- Checkout.com is looking for an ambitious Senior Data Platform Engineer to join our Data Platform Team
- Our team’s mission is to build a world-class data platform that powers our products and analytics
- The Data Platform team is here to ensure internal stakeholders can easily collect, store, process and utilise data to build reports or products aiming to solve business problems
- Our focus is on maximising the amount of time business stakeholders spend on solving business problems and minimising time spent on technical details around implementation, deployment, and monitoring of their solutions
- You’ll work as part of the team to build enablement components across the platform, as well as monitor and support the capabilities we offer
- Develop and maintain documentation for data systems and processes
- Participate in code and design reviews and provide constructive feedback
- Wherever possible, automate workflows and processes, we’re aiming for the platform to be as self-sustaining as possible
- Stay up-to-date with the latest data and streaming engineering technologies and trends
- Use that knowledge and subject matter expertise to mentor the more junior members of the team, and work with other “application” teams to provide guidance and best practice
- Build light weight tooling and associated reference patterns to foster the adoption of the platform by enabling upstream teams and systems to easily publish and manipulate data and deploy applications using industry best practices
- Implement all the necessary infrastructure to enable end users to build, host, monitor and deploy their own applications
- Provide consultancy across the technology organisation to drive the adoption of the platform and unlock use-cases
- Promote data quality and governance as a first class citizen of the platform
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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