First launch was back in 2009. So with over 15 years in the payments industry, we’ve got a story to tell.
Dojo is built to soothe customer and consumer pain points across the world for over 140,000 customers.
And today, there’s over 1000 of us in multiple locations across the UK, Ireland, Spain, and Italy.
Our mission is to empower businesses to thrive in the experience economy by creating the tools and tech that turn transactions into meaningful relationships.
We do that through sophisticated EPOS payments integrations, fast transactions, hospitality bookings, and a strong consumer restaurant app.
Our vision is to enable seamless, 24/7 transactions that feel like magic. We aspire to build a platform so extraordinary that it provides our customers with the dependability they deserve. We want transactions to be more than mere exchanges; we want them to become the backdrop for the remarkable experiences we want to offer to our customers.
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Engineer to join our Payment Authorisation area. You will operate across multiple distinct teams responsible for critical aspects of our payment flow: Authorization Gateway, Scheme Integration, Encryption and Tokenization for example. You will be a technical leader, driving strategic initiatives to enhance system quality, improve team collaboration, and deliver impactful solutions. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will serve as a peer to the Team Leads, providing support, guidance and expertise to ensure seamless and efficient processing of real-time payments. Furthermore, you will actively participate in a horizontal chapter/squad of peer Staff Engineers, focusing on the maturity of engineering practices, solution consistency, and overall technical excellence across the area.
What you will do...
- Champion best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment.
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to improve system performance and reliability.
- Proactively identify areas for improvement in the overall payment flow and propose innovative solutions.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration between the teams in your area, ensuring alignment and consistency.
- Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure backend systems.
- Drive initiatives to improve engineering maturity, solution consistency, and best practice adoption.
- Collaborate with other Staff Engineers to define and implement organisation-wide technical standards.
- Share knowledge and expertise across teams to promote technical excellence.
What you will bring...
- In-depth knowledge of Golang and willingness and experience coaching others.
- Experience working in a cloud environment, preferably GCP or AWS.
- Extensive experience working with Microservices architectures and event-driven systems.
- Leading the design of and maintaining scalable, resilient, and secure backend systems.
- Proven ability to provide technical leadership and act as a trusted advisor to Team Leads.
- Experience with providing mentorship and guidance to engineers, fostering a culture of growth.
Dojo home and away
We believe our best work happens when we collaborate in-person. These “together days” foster communication, drive innovation and spark our brightest ideas.
That's why we have an office-first culture. This means working from the office 4+ days per week.
With offices across Europe, we know a thing or two about staying dynamic. Need deep focus? Head to a quiet zone. Big ideas? Collaboration spaces have you covered. Just here for a catch-up? Our social hubs make it easy. Do work that counts, in spaces made for you.
Question: what’s curious, relentless, and customer obsessed?
If you’re keen to know the answer, you’re a third of the way to meeting our Dojo values.
If the following speak to you, let’s talk:
- You’re curious. You have a real desire to learn and create.
- You’re relentless. You keep going even when it’s easier not to.
- You’re customer-obsessed. You know how important customers are to what you do.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion at Dojo
From local bakeries to well-known eateries, Dojo payments serve over 140,000 places across the UK.
And something that’s fundamental to creating relevant, innovative products at Dojo is to build teams to reflect the diversity of the businesses we serve.
Our drive to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion is closely linked to helping employees thrive and innovating for better customer experiences.
If you care about your work, you’re curious, and you think customer-first, you have a place at Dojo.
To make sure you’re the best you can be throughout the recruitment process, let us know if you need any extra adjustments to help you thrive.
Visit dojo.careers to find out more about our benefits and what it’s like to work at Dojo, or check out our LinkedIn and Instagram pages.
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What We Do
Since launching in 2019 to address business owners’ pain points across the UK, we’ve seen incredible growth as a scaling fintech, welcoming over 150,000 customers and growing the Dojo team to 1,000+ people across five locations. In that time, we’ve also introduced Dojo Virtual Queues & Bookings and the Dojo restaurant finder app, formerly known as WalkUp and loved by 1,000 restaurants and 750,000 diners. Today, we work towards our mission to empower businesses to thrive in the Experience Economy by creating the tools and technology that turn transactions into meaningful relationships. For our business customers, that means fast funding, the fastest payments, smart integrations, and efficient virtual queues & bookings - all with instant insight across the board. For diners, that means getting seated at their favourite restaurants in just a couple of taps on the Dojo app. Whether it’s for busy business owners or hungry diners, every Dojo product is built to address real customer pain points by our dedicated teams in London, Bristol, Hull and Belfast
