Junior Software Engineer - Python

Job Description

What do we do?

Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better.

We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 3000 software sellers in 245 territories globally.

The role:

As a Junior Software Engineer on the Integrations team, you will be responsible for contributing to the development, testing, support, and maintenance of our Metrics product. This role involves working as part of a team to implement software solutions that meet business requirements, ensuring the quality and performance of the applications. You will apply foundational technical skills and knowledge to solve problems, contribute to project tasks, and support the overall software development lifecycle.

What you'll do:

• Engineer backend applications and services using Python.

• Play a part in one of our agile teams, either kanban or scrum as needed

• Working on our ever-growing microservices architecture

• Participate actively in your team’s ceremonies

• Deliver on features against estimate to a high quality, pairing with other engineers when necessary

• Test your and your teammate’s code, both manually and with unit and integration tests where applicable

• Practise DevOps, you’re responsible for getting your code to production, supporting and monitoring its performance via SLOs

• Use the latest AWS services available to run your code

• Help design a stable platform to support phenomenal growth

We'd love to hear from you if you:

• Have 1-2 years of related experience or an advanced qualification without experience

• Have experience with Python, SQL, and web development

• Happy working in a fast-moving, ever-changing environment

• Keen to develop yourself as an engineer, and want to increase your knowledge and become a valued member of the Paddle engineering team

• Proactive and enjoy finding ways to improve code and processes

• Have a good understanding of software development principles

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 craft, curiosity, passion for learning and what you’ll add to our culture. 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 will do everything we can to support any accommodations needed. 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 well-being 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 enhanced parental leave. 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.