Staff Software Engineer - Python

What do we do?

Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better.

The role:

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Integrations team, you will be a leader in solving the most interesting technical challenges and opportunities we face with our Metrics product. You will be instrumental in improving the product experience for our customers; for scaling our application to service tens of thousands of companies providing us terabytes of data; for integrating Metrics with the Paddle Core system; and for implementing our exciting new product vision of using AI and machine learning to increase our customers’ revenue — automatically.

You will lead on the technical vision of the department and work closely with product managers, engineering leads, and members of other team leads to ensure that our platform and its future are aligned with the team’s goals and the department’s vision. You will work cross-team to architect and implement solutions to our most pressing challenges. You will mentor other engineers. You will evaluate new tools to improve our platform and become an evangelist for Technology at Paddle.

Tech stack:

Python (Django) for our Retain and Metrics monolith
Docker in production and local development
Kubernetes to orchestrate our containers
RabbitMQ for our asynchronous message queues
Redis for key/value store
MySQL, Postgres and S3 for persistent data storage
Terraform for infrastructure management
Grafana and InfluxDB for monitoring

What you'll do:

Lead, facilitate and coordinate on the execution of our department’s technical vision, with good collaboration with others in the department
Be a go-to expert for technical architecture and modern design patterns using the right tools for the job
Drive idea generation for new platform capabilities and brings them to fruition
Drive the definition of a solid high-level technical roadmap that is aligned with strategic goals clearly visualizing commercial and business impact
Solicit information cross-functionally to ensure long-term technical direction is aligning with business goals
Be an evangelist for technology at Paddle and Paddle values to the Engineering & Product external community, improving our employer branding and helping attract new talent.

Why you’ll love working at Paddle

We are a diverse, growing group of Paddlers across the globe who pride ourselves on our transparent, collaborative and respectful culture.

We live and breathe our values, which are:

Exceptional Together
Execute with impact
Better than Yesterday

We offer a full suite of benefits, including attractive salaries, stock options, retirement plans, private healthcare and well-being initiatives.

We are a ‘digital-first’ company, which means you can work remotely, from one of our stylish hubs, or even a bit of both! We offer all team members unlimited holidays and enhanced parental leave. We invest in learning and will help you with your personal development via constant exposure to new challenges, an annual learning fund, and regular internal and external training.