Senior Engineering Manager, Checkout.com
Data Platform
3 days a week in office
Payment services to power performance
Posted today
Payment services to power performance
1001+ employees
Posted today
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses thrive in the digital economy.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading and growing a team of data professionals
- Experience as a data or software engineer, preferably in a fast-paced growing company
- Be able to partner with Product Management to assess technical feasibility, provide capacity estimates, and balance new features with architectural health
- Excellent time management and proactive problem-solving skills
- Experience designing and implementing batch and stream data processing systems
- Experience with Datadog, SQL, Terraform, Docker, AWS (ECS, Kinesis, SQS, Cloudwatch), GCP (BigQuery)
- Knowledge of Airflow, Kafka, Flink, dbt, Kubernetes is highly beneficial
- Good understanding of AI platforms, experience building the infrastructure for LLM orchestration (e.g., Vector DBs, RAG pipelines, or GPU scaling) is a significant plus
What the job involves
- Checkout.com is looking for an ambitious Senior Engineering Manager to join our Data and AI Platform Team
- Lead the team in establishing and validating their understanding of technical architecture and design end-user centric systems and tools
- Lead technical delivery and operational reliability by automating processes including monitoring and alerting, meeting SLAs/SLO, and minimising toil to ensure high-performance, scalable engineering excellence
- Manage a team of Junior and Senior Data Engineers while also being hands-on when needed. Cultivate an environment where every team member feels included while mentoring team members in their career development and interpersonal skills. Make a good team great
- Ability to oversee quarterly execution of roadmap delivery, ensure the team is focused on the right priorities, efficiently managing through dependencies and other cross-functional hurdles
- Collaborate with Engineering and provide solutions to internal clients for data platform use cases
- Build and improve on strong relationships with engineers, managers, and product leads across multiple teams
- Being in a highly regulated financial space, you’ll need to ensure compliance with various control frames - both from internal stakeholders such as InfoSec and Internal Audit - as well as external requirements from auditors and regulators. Experience working in regulated industries is critical
- Oversee AI use-cases and lead the team to develop the underlying infrastructure and tooling required to support AI governance and scalable GenAI production environments
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 is building the go-to platform for all things related to payments, such as accepting transactions, processing them and detecting fraud. Its secured a steady stream of funding from top investors like Tiger Global Management, and is the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Patreon, Dashlane, Udacity, Wise, Sony Electronics, and Klarna.
It focuses on large merchants and try to make its 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 the company to generate revenue.
Checkout.com has high quality proprietary technology (its platform has been designed from the outset so it can easily deliver incremental services as it expands its offering) and claim to offer the most comprehensive cross-border payment solution for digital commerce.
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Insights
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 values
- Aspire: With big dreams and a long-term focus, we embrace ambition, driving our Aspire value
- Excel: By constantly pushing ourselves and each other to do our best work, we embody the spirit of Excel
- Unite: We come together as one team, rallying to make wins happen, forming the foundation of our Unite value
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Guillaume Pousaz
(Founder & 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.
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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