Senior Backend Software Engineer

SUPER PAYMENTS Our mission is to use data and AI to make payments free for businesses, so that everyone wins. By removing payment fees and passing savings back to customers, we are disrupting the payments industry while helping businesses increase sales and loyalty. With Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) free for merchants and 0% card payment processing, Super gives businesses a powerful way to reduce costs, grow sales, and reward customers. Already trusted by thousands of businesses and more than 4 million customers, Super is growing fast, supported by leading investors including Accel, Union Square Ventures and LocalGlobe, and led by Samir Desai, founder and former CEO of Funding Circle. OUR VALUES * Customer obsessed: We only succeed when our customers do. * Move fast: Build, test and improve quickly. Progress matters more than perfection. * Own it: Be accountable, solve problems, and make it happen. * Be open: Act with honesty and respect. Transparency builds trust. * Win together: Collaboration beats ego every time.   Our Technology We leverage the latest tools and technologies to create a seamless, customer-centric digital experience. Our core stack is built around Node.js, TypeScript, and NestJS, with a front-end powered by React. We deploy using AWS cloud services and Kubernetes, ensuring scalability and resilience. Infrastructure as Code is fundamental to our approach, and we use Terraform to manage our cloud resources. Our architecture is cloud-native, event-driven, and distributed, built on Amazon EventBridge and SQS, with services exposed via REST. We are driven by data science, machine learning, and analytics, using multi-variant testing to personalise user experiences across every digital channel. However, it’s not just about the technology. We are passionate about continuous delivery, automation, and rapid iteration. Our deployment pipeline is fully automated, covering everything from branching, building, testing, and shipping to monitoring and alerting—allowing us to focus on delivering value to our customers. Technology is at the heart of our business, and we value diverse perspectives. Bring your ideas, experience, and problem-solving mindset—we’ll navigate obstacles together. WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING * Spearheading the design and evolution of our B2B API, personalisation and payments infrastructure. * Collaborating with UX and product teams in discovery, ideation, and problem-solving. * Contributing to engineering-wide initiatives, participating in technical discussions, architecture decisions, and best practice sharing. * Developing a deep understanding of our business, customers, and domain—applying your judgement to make autonomous decisions. * Mentoring and supporting the growth of our engineering community, sharing knowledge through pairing, talks, and external speaking opportunities. We’d love to hear from you if you: * Have at least 8 years of experience in software engineering. * Have worked on any one of the following areas: * Financial Services in areas like payments/wealth management/banking * The payments infrastructure at a large eCommerce site * High-volume transaction scale-up (e.g., betting, gaming, or streaming) * Have a delivery-focused mindset, using agile practices to drive team success. * Bring experience with a variety of programming languages. * Are willing to work with Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, and AWS cloud technologies. * Have experience designing and provisioning cloud-based infrastructure, using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). Ideally, have worked with Kubernetes and understand the fundamentals of containerized deployments. * Have built and supported publicly accessible REST APIs. * Understand application development, continuous delivery, test automation, and security within distributed services. * Have a track record of improving code quality, performance, stability, and scalability. * Are comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving start-up environment. * Can work independently, tackling ambiguous challenges and driving solutions forward. To learn more about about engineering at Super Payments follow this link. https://gist.github.com/sam-super/9c40d3d23fa577ed2e96f2ca68f1d639 *The stated experience and background is a guide and does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience, provided the requisite skills can be demonstrated. Our Benefits - here’s a few and more to come …. * Tax advantage Share Options * Flexible working model * Work from home set up * Learning & Development opportunities * Contributory Pension Scheme * Free Team lunch (Tues & Thurs) and social evenings * Comprehensive PMI & x4 Life Insurance * Your birthday off, plus one Revival day 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.

P-1127 At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central to their own missions. Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms. The fleet consists of millions of virtual machines, generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day. At our scale, we regularly observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above. The Delta DML team owns the core write-path operations for Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer behind the Databricks Lakehouse. Our mission is to deliver industry-leading performance and a seamless user experience at massive scale, with most data written in Databricks flowing through our platform.  We drive performance innovations like Low Shuffle Merge and Deletion Vectors and actively contribute to open source efforts to unify Delta and Iceberg formats. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our backend team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend systems that power Databricks workspaces. You will build the next-generation platform for serving workspace assets, ensuring high QPS, low latency, reliable, and performant systems, proactively addressing the future growth challenges. Additionally, as a senior member of the team, you will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, contributing to the overall improvement of team coding practices and system designs. The Impact you will have: * Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering. * Low level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters. * Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects. * Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services. * Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues. * Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company. * Contribute as a technical team lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning. What we look for: * 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems. * Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables. * Motivated by delivering customer value and impact. * Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases. * Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction. * BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.   About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.