IT & Software

Staff Software Engineer - Experimentation & Decisioning Platform

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London · Greater London · United Kingdom

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

Reference: WJ-747_30837979

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