Staff Software Engineer - Experimentation & Decisioning Platform
Checkout.com · London, England ·
Overview
As a Staff Software Engineer in the Payments Performance pillar, you will steer long-term technical direction for high-scale experimentation and optimization systems. You’ll align multiple engineering teams to architectural priorities, unblock obstacles, and balance technical excellence with pragmatic impact. You’ll coach engineers, shape cross-functional solutions with Data Science and ML teams, and drive continuous improvement for reliable, low-latency backend systems. This is a chance to influence global payments infrastructure at scale and contribute to a fast-growing fintech platform.
Pay / Benefits
- hybrid working model
- three days per week in the office
- opportunity for growth and impact
- recognition for delivering results
- collaborative culture and strong team support
- focus on owning meaningful challenges
Responsibilities
- Define and drive long-term technical direction for the Experimentation and Optimisation platform to scale impact
- Collaborate with Data Science, Platform and ML Engineering teams to shape what is built
- Mentor engineering teams and solve complex distributed systems challenges in Go
- Elevate engineering standards and foster a culture of continuous improvement
- Translate requirements into clear engineering roadmaps and architecture decisions
- Promote engineering excellence through code, architecture, and operational best practices
Key requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience building, operating and scaling cloud-based distributed systems (AWS)
- Excellent Go (Golang) programming skills with understanding of concurrent, memory-efficient, low-latency architectures
- Proven track record implementing and scaling experimentation systems or similar data-intensive backends
- Strong coaching and mentorship abilities to raise engineering standards
- Clear communication and collaboration skills across multidisciplinary teams
- Data-driven, detail-oriented approach to infrastructure with low latency
- Accountability to internal customers and engineering colleagues
- coaching and mentorship
- clear communication
- collaboration across teams
- Go (Golang)
- AWS
- distributed systems
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