Staff Software Engineer - Experimentation & Decisioning Platform
Checkout.com11 days ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsStaff+
Responsibilities
- Drive the long-term technical direction and strategy for the Experimentation and Optimisation platform.
- Align multiple engineering teams on architectural priorities and unblock complex distributed-systems challenges.
- Collaborate with Data Science, Platform, and ML Engineering teams to shape platform development.
- Coach and mentor engineering teams while raising engineering standards and promoting continuous improvement.
- Translate requirements and architecture initiatives into clear, actionable engineering roadmaps.
- Champion best practices in code, architecture, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience building, operating, and scaling complex cloud-based distributed systems.
- Excellent programming skills in Go with deep knowledge of concurrent, memory-efficient, and low-latency backend architectures.
- Proven experience implementing, owning, and scaling experimentation systems, feature-flagging infrastructure, or similar data-intensive backend systems.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, cross-team influence, coaching, and mentorship.
- Strong presentation, communication, collaboration, and multidisciplinary technical communication skills.
- A detail-oriented, data-driven, proactive, and accountable approach to infrastructure engineering where accuracy and low latency are critical.
- Experience with adaptive experimentation machine learning, contextual bandits, Bayesian optimization, or reinforcement-learning-based allocation is a bonus.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model with three days per week in the office.
- A culture emphasizing ownership, meaningful work, professional growth, accessibility, and collaboration.
About Checkout.com
Checkout.com processes payments for thousands of companies that shape the digital economy. Our global digital payments network supports over 145 currencies and delivers high-performance payment solutions across the world, processing billions of transactions annually. In 2025, Checkout.com processed more than $300bn in ecommerce payments volume. We help enterprise merchants boost acceptance rates, combat fraud, and turn payments into a major revenue driver. Headquartered in London and with 19 offices worldwide, Checkout.com is trusted by leading brands such as Spotify, HelloFresh, eBay, Uber, Pinterest, Vinted, Klarna, Financial Times, and Sony. Checkout.com. Where the world checks out.