Principal Backend Engineer

You will lead development on an organisational level. Design, implement, and operate customer experiences, complex workflows, and operational task management applications to enable multiple order of magnitude growth.

You will work with a diverse team to help shape the future of our technology. You will be part of the whole feature development lifecycle on multiple full-stack applications with direct access to a wealth of customer feedback.

You will use technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Golang to write maintainable, performant, and high-quality code. We focus on continuous deployment and iterative delivery, well-tested to ensure our code runs reliably, allowing you to focus on delivering value to merchants in a fluid manner.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for the success of the most important projects in the company.
• Solve highly complex challenges with simple solutions, often where neither the business problem nor technology strategy is well defined.
• Be a significant hands-on contributor, delivering code contributions that demonstrate best practices and set a high quality bar on a regular basis.
• Work with a community of Principal Engineers and tech leaders to be a key influencer for strategic tech decisions,
• Continually evolve our engineering practices using data insights and industry knowledge.
• Mentor and coach other engineers, fostering their professional growth of the most senior technical people.
• Lead design reviews for complex software projects and/or critical features, probing assumptions, illuminating pitfalls, and fostering shared understanding.

Your Story

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Ability to solve problems in code using data structures and algorithms and be able to analyze the time and space complexity of those solutions.
• Proven ability to document and communicate technical decisions to a diverse audience.
• Professional experience leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, scaling) of multiple new and existing systems.
• Professional experience growing peer engineers through mentorship and guidance.
• Ability to work with problems of extreme ambiguity and lead others through ambiguous situations.