Senior Frontend Engineer (12-month FTC)

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:

You’ll be working closely with product managers, designers and engineers across teams to create a world-class user experience for our customers. Dashboard team owns the seller dashboard, customer portal and other frontend applications, which require new features and improvements as we scale to serve a rapidly growing number of sellers. The team is part of the Billing group, which is responsible for transaction processing, subscriptions, customer data and more. We often work with a range of other teams, including Payments, InfoSec, Platform (SRE) & DX.

What you'll do:

• Work on critical frontend applications used by a global network of sellers

• Develop greenfield products and enhance our existing front-end architecture

• Collaborate closely and pair with product designers

• Provide engineering advice for team issues, and be involved in wider technical decisions that positively impact the department and company

• Collaborate with backend engineers on API specifications and integration

• Improve the seller & customer experience in gradual, frequent iterations

We'd love to hear from you if you:

• Have strong technical skills with: React, TypeScript, CSS, React Testing Library/Vitest, Playwright.

• Implemented performant, responsive front-end applications in agile Product teams.

• Have substantial experience working closely with product designers during discovery and implementation phases of projects.

• Have a strong understanding of the development process from design through to deployment and maintenance and what that means for day-to-day development.

• Have worked with AWS & Terraform or other cloud services & infrastructure-as-code tools.

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.