Staff Software Engineer - Experimentation & Decisioning Platform
Checkout.com2 months 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 builds a global payments platform for enterprise merchants, offering card acquiring, payment processing, issuing, and risk/fraud tools across 145+ currencies. It serves ecommerce and digital businesses and earns primarily through transaction and service fees, with direct integrations to schemes like Visa, Mastercard, and Amex. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, the privately held company counts brands such as Spotify, eBay, Uber, Klarna, and Sony among its customers.