Senior Full Stack Engineer (Back End)

London

Who is Super Payments? We are revolutionising the traditional online payment & shopping experience. Our goal is simple: we believe that customers and retailers are underserved by the current financial system and deserve a better and fairer deal.

We are about empowering customers to shop smartly and earn instant cash back and for retailers to extricate themselves from prohibitive fees and increase their sales.

Led by former CEO of Funding Circle, Samir Desai, we have raised $30m of funding from leading venture capital and angel investors including Accel, Union Square Ventures and Localglobe, in one of the largest ever pre-seed funding rounds in Europe.

Our Values - Our culture is our DNA. It defines our mission, our goals, how we operate and communicate on a day-to-day basis, and how we attract and hire great talent:

• Be customer obsessed.

Everything begins here. We only succeed if consumers and retailers succeed.

Faster, better, cheaper for the customer.

• Move fast.

Build, iterate and learn quickly - always think of the automated solution first.

A slow decision is worse than a wrong decision.

• Own it.

Think big, start small and power through problems to get it done.

A small group of committed people can change the world.

• Be open.

Build open, honest and respectful relationships with each other.

Transparency and integrity build trust.

• Win together.

Great work cannot be achieved alone. Bring the humility and leave the ego at the door.

It’s better to have a hole than an arsehole.

Our Technology

We use the latest tools and technologies to deliver an outstanding, seamless and customer-centric digital experience to our customers. We predominantly write our software using TypeScript, leveraging libraries such as nest.js and React, and deploy on immutable infrastructure AWS cloud services and Kubernetes. We believe strongly in Infrastructure as Code via Terraform. Our system is event-based and distributed built on top of Amazon EventBridge and SQS. In addition, our services use REST APIs and GraphQL.

We are driven by data science, machine learning and analytics, from multi-variant testing, allowing us to personalise the user experience; every customer will have a unique and tailored experience just for them, across every digital channel.

It's not all about the languages and tools we use. Continuously delivering business value through rapid delivery, learning and adapting is our mantra. We use the latest modern software delivery processes with an ambition to automate everything: branch, build, deploy, test, ship, watch, monitor and alert, all fully automated, so we can focus on building an awesome experience for our customers and back office business.

Technology drives everything we do and helps make our business model unique; bring your ideas, your voice and your experience to the table and let’s navigate and explore the unknown together.

What you will be doing

• Initially you can expect to play a leading role in the design and evolution of our B2B API, and as we evolve you will work on the other parts of our payments infrastructure.

• Play an active role in our code review process, reviewing code from across the team as well as making it easy for others to review the code you write.

• Contribute to discovery, ideation and research alongside designers and other engineers to identify, prioritise and solve problems iteratively.

• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives via guilds and ADR processes.

• Gain an understanding of our business, our customers, and our domain, and use your judgement to make autonomous decisions.

• Mentoring and growing our engineering community by supporting the professional development of others by sharing your knowledge and experience - be it through pairing, talks or external speaking opportunities.

Requirements

We'd love it if you have:

• A delivery-focussed mindset and make use of agile software development practices to ensure your team’s success. We value collaboration, repeatability and continuous improvement.

• Professional experience with several different languages so that you can bring a diverse mindset to the technical problems we face.

• An interest in working with our tech stack, even the bits you don’t know and are excited to learn.

• Been responsible for the design and provisioning of cloud-based infrastructure that your applications run upon. Bonus points if this was Infrastructure as Code.

• Knowledge of application development, continuous delivery, test automation, and secure software development within a distributed-service environment.

• Worked on, and supported a publicly accessible REST API.

• A proven track record of implementing significant improvements in quality, performance, stability and scalability to code they work on.

• Comfort working in a fast-paced, constantly changing startup environment.

• Capable of working independently; there will be significant ambiguous problems that you will be responsible for exploring and providing solutions for.

Our Benefits - here’s a few and more to come…

• Tax advantage Share Options

• Choice of Laptop - Macbook or Windows

• Flexible working model

• Work from home setup

• Learning & Development opportunities

• Contributory Pension Scheme

• Team lunch and social evenings

• Your birthday off, plus one Revival day

• Referral bonus (£2,000)

If you are excited about sharing the adventure, joining a growing team with big ambitions and you are really great at what you do, then apply now!

Super Payments is an equal opportunity employer, embracing diversity in all its forms and fostering an inclusive environment. The company will not unlawfully discriminate on grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability or age, neurodiversity status, pregnancy or trade union membership.

Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments at any point during the application and/or recruitment process.