Senior Software Engineer (PHP) - Developer Experience at Paddle

  • Europe Only
  • Paddle
Job Description:

The role

With our product offering continuing to grow, our Developer Experience team is dedicated to creating a consistent, feature-rich platform experience for developers to integrate with.

If you’re a product-minded Engineer that appreciates a great developer experience, you’re exactly what we’re looking for. Working in a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, technical writers and designers, you’ll be providing a DX framework for our product teams to rapidly ship cohesive products as well as building out end-to-end features that will delight our users.

What you'll do:

  • Work with colleagues across product and engineering to ensure the customer-facing developer experience we provide is cohesive, powerful and easy to deliver.
  • Develop new functionality which empower our product teams and help provide customers with everything they need to onboard, build and evolve with Paddle
  • Define and build critical architecture that scales for our product teams and customers alike
  • Drive innovation with new features that will delight developers
  • Perform code reviews and mentor more junior engineers to maximise their potential and growth
  • Help shape our team and wider engineering culture and help make sure Paddle remains an exceptional place to work

We'd love to hear from you if you:

  • Have a strong understanding of API principles and best practices
  • Have experience working with PHP, ideally with Laravel or Symfony experience (but not required)
  • Have experience building APIs in any backend programming language and ideally the infrastructure that enables them
  • Have a keen eye for good UX and DX, and a desire to provide the slickest experience you can to your users
  • Have the ability to work with stakeholders on multiple fronts to help shape and deliver the developer experience roadmap

And for bonus points you:

Have experience producing SDKs, either open source or in-house, or other developer tooling Have some Go experience (hobby projects are good too!) Have some understanding of Protocol Buffers, gRPC, message queue systems or event driven architecture Have worked with distributed systems and have solved, or have a good understanding, of the problems that you can face when doing so.

Everyone is welcome at Paddle

At Paddle, we’re committed to removing invisible barriers, both for our customers and within our own teams. We recognise and celebrate that every Paddler is unique and we welcome every individual perspective. As an inclusive employer we don’t care if, or where, you studied, what you look like or where you’re from. We’re more interested in your passion for learning and what you’ll bring to the table. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t match every part of the job ad, especially if you’re part of an underrepresented group. Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to better support you through the application process and in the workplace. We’re committed to building a diverse team where everyone feels safe to be their authentic self. Let’s grow together.

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 wellbeing 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 4 months paid family leave regardless of gender. We love our casual dress code, annual company retreats and much more. 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.

Company Benefits

  • Full remote working flexibility
  • Flexible working hours
  • Company options scheme
  • Private health insurance
  • Unlimited paid holiday
  • 45 days per year to work from anywhere in the world + Airbnb credits
  • Mental health coaching sessions
  • Remote working stipend
  • Learning budget for courses and certifications
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Season ticket loan
  • Generous family friendly policies
  • Pension employer contribution 3% (Employee 5% or more)

Interview Process

  1. 30 minute chat with Talent Partner (via Zoom)
  2. 45 minute chat with an Engineering Manager (via Zoom)
  3. Take home task (we encourage just a couple of hours to spend on this)
  4. Final technical assessment (90 minutes), followed by a 45 minute Culture and Value fit
  5. interview (separate interviews both conducted via Zoom) Offer!

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