[Hiring] Payments Backend Engineer @Playtomic

Role Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Payments team at Playtomic, you will be responsible for developing robust and scalable payments solutions for our product, ensuring high performance, consistent and secure transactions.

• Develop and maintain APIs and their services, enabling seamless communication between the frontend and backend, and facilitating third-party integrations to enhance the overall functionality of the payments services.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, product designers and frontend/mobile engineers, to devise innovative solutions.
• Collaborate with third-party payment gateways to integrate and optimize secure payment processing, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests from the frontend.
• Maintain a high code quality by continuously optimizing and improving our backend through code reviews, profiling, and implementing best practices and company's standards.

Qualifications

• Experience with payment gateway integrations and secure transaction processing is a must.
• Proven experience as a Backend Engineer.
• Familiarity with the whole web stack, including protocols, system architecture, database design, and web server optimization techniques.
• Experience with Spring Boot 3, Java 17, MongoDB, MySQL (aurora), Kubernetes is preferred.
• Extensive experience in designing, developing, and maintaining APIs.
• Strong communication skills to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing technical challenges.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and dynamic work environment, with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions within specified timelines.
• Located in Madrid or able to travel to Madrid when needed.
• Excellent spoken and written English is a must.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Requirements

• Proven track record in designing and implementing payment systems or financial platforms.
• Experience working with remote and partially remote and multicultural teams.
• Experience working in start-ups and scale-ups.

Benefits

• Social benefits (63 € a month in one of these: health insurance/tickets restaurant), flexible salary in training and kindergarten.
• Gympass discounts in several plans that include gyms, personal classes, access to free apps of wellbeing, nutrition etc.
• Annual budget for training.
• Opportunity to work in a top international team.
• 23 days of vacation + day off on your birthday + 2 days off for Wellness days in August.
• 1 additional day off per year worked.

Company Description

We are world’s largest racket sports App for players and clubs. Our goal is to socialize sports practice: through the app, players can book courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social community dedicated to playing.

• Since 2017, Playtomic has earned the trust of national and international investors, consolidating it as one of the main world players in sports digitalization.
• You will find +150 co-workers around the world with headquarters in Spain and offices in Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, UK, EEUU and Mexico.