Senior Frontend Engineer - OCS Activation

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Company Description

Checkout.com is one of the most exciting and valuable fintechs in the world, with our Series D taking our valuation to $40 billion. Our mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. We're the strategic payments partner for some of the best-known fast-moving brands globally such as Wise, Hut Group, Sony Electronics, Homebase, Henkel, Klarna, and many others. Purpose-built with performance and scalability in mind, our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it's not just what we build that makes us different. It's how.

We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate, and do their best work. That's why we're number 15 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and on Glassdoor's list of Top 10 fintechs to work for. And we're just getting started. We're building diverse and inclusive teams around the world - because that's how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners. And we need your help. So, join us to build tomorrow, today.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic Operations & Client Services (OCS) Pillar. As a crucial team member, you will play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining software to scale our processes and facilitate a seamless onboarding experience for our merchants, whether they're just starting with us, or a longstanding customer activating additional Checkout.com products.

The ideal candidate is curious, spirited, lives and breathes Agile and the DevOps philosophy, and is passionate about working in a team that focuses on building products to achieve the company's strategic goals.

You'll get to work with teams from across Checkout.com's portfolio of products and services, as well as gain valuable insights from our commercial teams to deliver solutions that add value to them and our merchants.

We're part of an important area within the company - as we often form part of the initial interaction with merchants - and we're looking for individuals who have strong ownership, attention to detail and are comfortable converting big problems into smaller iterations to deliver value constantly.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct detailed code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers
  • While also being able to take onboard feedback from others
• Partner with stakeholders both inside and outside of your core team to identify and refine requirements and specifications for key deliverables
• Organise and run planning sessions with your team, ensuring everyone is on the same page
• Take ownership and drive the delivery of strategic deliverables
• Create and maintain pipelines to support automated builds, tests, and deployments
• Support the creation and maintenance of technical documentation
• Supporting and mentoring more junior members of the team
• Contribute and adhere to our coding standards, best practices, and procedures

Qualifications

Essential Skills:

• At least 5-6 years of Experience building modern single-page web applications using JavaScript frameworks such as Next.js or React
• Extensive experience in web application design and state management solutions
  • Strong knowledge of building scalable and reusable React components.
  • Ability to design and implement component-based architectures.
• Expert understanding of core web programming technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, HTML, CSS)
  • Our codebase is a monorepo built with Turborepo using TypeScript with a Node.js backend and a React front-end.
• Experience working with and contributing to design systems and component libraries
• Understanding of HTTP, TLS, and interacting with RESTful web services
• Superb communication skills, ability to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams

Desirable:

• Experience with writing automated tests from unit tests to e2e suites using tools like Jest, React Testing Library, and Playwright
• Understanding of common security vulnerabilities and performance issues in web applications, and knowing how to debug them
• Strong customer focus, you build accessible applications with a great UX

Additional Information

Hybrid Working Model:

All of our offices globally are onsite 3 times per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). We've worked towards enabling teams to work collaboratively in the same space, while also being able to partner with colleagues globally. During your days at the office, we offer amazing snacks, breakfast, and lunch options in all of our locations.

Apply without meeting all requirements statement

If you don't meet all the requirements but think you might still be right for the role, please apply anyway. We're always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.

We believe in equal opportunities

We work as one team. Wherever you come from. However you identify. And whichever payment method you use.

Our clients come from all over the world - and so do we. Hiring hard-working people and giving them a community to thrive in is critical to our success.

When you join our team, we'll empower you to unlock your potential so you can do your best work. We'd love to hear how you think you could make a difference here with us.

We want to set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable. We'll be happy to support you.

Take a peek inside life at Checkout.com via

• Our Culture video https://youtu.be/BEwnpHuadSw
• Our careers page https://www.checkout.com/careers
• Our LinkedIn Life pages bit.ly/3OaoN1U
• Our Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/checkout_com/