Data Platform Engineering Manager, Checkout.com
3+ days a week in office
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
Posted today
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
1001+ employees
Posted today
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
- Expertise in both streaming and traditional ETL data architectures
- Strong knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS S3, Athena, EMR, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Azure Data Lake, ...) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Proficiency in Python
- Proven achievements with Platform Engineering tools and methodologies including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code and self-service capabilities
- Excellent leadership, team management and project management skills
- Excellent communication skills, with the faculty to translate technical concepts into business outcomes for non-technical stakeholders
- Capacity to work in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment with a commitment to professional development and continuous learning
What the job involves
- At Checkout, we’re rethinking how we “do data”. To ensure our solutions are scalable and our data is reliable, we’re building a truly world class platform; a democratised streaming platform empowering data users across the business with easily accessible data in real-time
- We’re looking for a visionary Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead our Data Platform team; a pivotal position that will play a key role in driving this change and ensuring teams are reaping the benefits
- We take a 'Platform as a Product' approach which is currently focused on three areas: Events and Data Streaming, Data Lakes and Warehousing and GenAI use cases and the right candidate will be responsible for defining the strategy and driving the delivery of all three
- Define the Data and AI Platform Vision: Develop and communicate a clear vision for a multi-modal Data and AI platform aligned with the checkout’s strategic goals
- Data Product Strategy: Advocate for and define what constitutes a data product ensuring that teams understand how to create reusable, high-quality data assets
- Build & Lead a High-Performing Team: Be an inspirational leader and mentor for the diverse team of data and platform engineers
- Foster Innovation: Encourage the team to explore and adopt modern tools and techniques to consistently evolve the platform
- Platform as a Product: Champion this approach focusing on experience, end-to-end simplicity and usability
- Drive a Data-Driven Culture: Work closely with product, engineering, analytics, and operations teams to ensure that data products solve real business problems
- Training & Education: Lead initiatives to up-skill teams on how to work with the new platform, data tools, and streaming paradigms
- Evangelise Best Practices: Act as an internal advocate for event-driven design, data contracts, and product thinking applied to data
- Vendor and Third Party Management: Work with your third party partners to deliver exceptional service
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
Few 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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