Company DescriptionWe’re Checkout.
You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day.
We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers.
Whether you want to book a holiday, order food, renew a subscription, or check out online, there’s a good chance our tech powers the payments behind the scenes.
Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale.
If you want to do career-defining work, you’ve come to the right place.
We move fast, think globally, and believe great teams are built by hiring exceptional people with conviction, curiosity, and the desire to make an impact.
With 20 offices across six continents and London as our HQ, we’re shaping the future of fintech – and we’re just getting started.
The roleThis role sits in our Payment Performance team - Payment performance means that we work to make payments have a higher probability of succeeding when they come through us -- thus ensuring higher revenues to all of our merchants.
We do this by combining ML/RL and manual knowledge to make routing algorithms that modify a payment’s parameters in real-time.
This makes for an exciting technical challenge: we have to combine high performance (<100ms), reliability (99.
99%), and live machine learning, which requires us to be ahead of the market in terms of technology.
How you’ll make an impactDrive and support our software and infrastructure engineers working on proprietary algorithmsUphold high standards for our uptime and latency.