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Senior Software Engineer – Go

Posted on 22 September 2026

About the role

💼 What you will do

• Join Paddle, the Merchant of Record that removes payment fragmentation for software companies, in a full-time remote role. • Build the payments and billing systems behind a financially critical platform processing hundreds of millions of dollars a month. • Take initiative within a small team, from initial concept and scoping through rollout and ongoing ownership. • Solve problems rather than just writing code. • Collaborate with Data, InfoSec, Platform, Risk, Finance and other product teams. • Work alongside engineers, designers, analysts and legal and finance experts.

📋 Job Requirements

• Bring a development background with Go. • Show experience designing and building systems that handle high traffic at scale in AWS. • Bring a strong understanding of API principles and best practices. • Understand the full development process from design through deployment and maintenance. • Find ways proactively to improve the code and team processes. • Enjoy collaborating with technical and non-technical departments. • Demonstrate a bias for action and strong customer focus. • Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Handle complex problems and ambiguity while balancing progress against perfection. • Be based in the UK, Ireland or Portugal.

🌟 Nice-to-have

• Bring experience with payments, billing or other financially critical systems. • Show experience mentoring engineers and leading technical planning. • Bring experience investigating production issues alongside support teams. • Show experience architecting for growing transaction volumes.

🎯 Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain high-throughput, highly reliable systems powering core Paddle capabilities. • Lead the implementation of key features from concept and planning through to monitoring and improvement. • Architect solutions that scale with growing transaction volumes and customers. • Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and set a high bar for engineering standards. • Lead design discussions and architecture decisions, balancing delivery against long-term sustainability. • Translate business requirements into robust technical solutions with Product, Design, Data, Risk and Operations. • Shape product direction with technical insight, trade-offs and delivery estimates. • Partner with Customer Support and Operations to investigate and resolve production issues. • Mentor other engineers and lead technical planning for team initiatives. • Drive best practices across the wider engineering community.

About Paddle

😃 What Paddle offers

• Work remotely as part of a digital-first company, or from one of Paddle’s hubs. • Take unlimited holidays. • Get 4 months of paid family leave regardless of gender. • Use an annual learning fund plus regular internal and external training. • Work on challenging problems in a financially critical system at real scale. • Join a transparent, collaborative and respectful culture.

💖 What makes Paddle unique

Paddle offers software companies a different approach to payments infrastructure, acting as a Merchant of Record so they avoid assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments apps and services. It serves over 6,000 software sellers across 245 territories worldwide, processing hundreds of millions of dollars each month. The company is backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion and 83North.

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