Remote Senior Software Engineer, Payments Team

Paidy is looking for experienced Scala Engineers to join our new Payments Engineering team.

We are creating a dedicated team to support the continued growth of Paidy's payment systems. The team will be taking ownership of the existing payment systems, and will further develop and maintain them. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, working with other teams on identifying requirements, and delivering new functionality.

You will work on the API gateways and backend services that are used by Paidy’s users and merchants to create and manage payments. You will be involved in all stages of the development cycle. You will be able to share best practices and set standards for your team and other teams in Paidy's engineering organization. You will be able to leave your mark on the engineering culture as well.

The Payments Engineering team is part of the Mega Merchants Engineering department.

The Mega Merchants Team

This team designs, builds and maintains the solutions that enable seamless integrations for Paidy's merchants.

We work together with the Product team from early stages, and collaborate with other departments and teams. We solve new and unique engineering challenges, for example, to support SLAs for APIs.

About you

You are passionate about getting things done and into production. The code that you write is functional. You have experience with the Typelevel ecosystem (for example, cats, cats-effect). You are comfortable working with existing Scala code bases. Consistency across services and projects is important to you.

You enjoy the interactions with your peers, and look for mentoring and growth opportunities.

Key responsibilities

Design, develop, and deliver new features on our RESTful API gateways and backend services.

• Collaborate with distributed and multidisciplinary teams
• Assist in requirements identification and in producing specifications
• Contribute and adhere to coding standards, best practices, and procedures

Required

• Knowledge of Functional Programming, Scala, and the Typelevel ecosystem
• Understanding of software architecture and design with the ability to align the overall service architecture
• Experience with building distributed systems, scalability and high throughput software
• Experience with maintaining and further developing existing code bases
• Comfortable with knowledge sharing, working on a team and building relationships
• Shows interest in the organization’s engineering strategy, product development strategy and how that aligns to the overall business strategy
• Ability to define task outlines and deliverables
• Demonstrates a sense of urgency when required
• Ability to manage some ambiguity and exercises good judgement when needed
• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback tactfully upstream and downstream

Nice to have

• Experience with Akka Cluster, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka
• Experience with Event Sourcing and CQRS
• Understanding of JVM internals and performance optimization
• Experience with CircleCI, AWS, Fargate, Terraform, Datadog
• Experience working on a payment platform or other fintech field