Software Engineer (Go)

What do we do?

Paddle offers digital product 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 10,000 software sellers in 245 territories globally.

The Role:

As a Software Engineer within our Billing group, you will play a key role in developing core areas of our new billing platform. You’ll provide world-class experiences to thousands of customers who use and trust Paddle every day. You'll take the lead on discovering new features, planning their implementation, and contributing your technical expertise to shape the future of our billing platform.

You’ll collaborate with multiple teams—engineers, product managers, and designers—working across a wide range of areas that will give you plenty of opportunities to develop your skills and grow your career as a valued member of our engineering team.

What you'll do:

• Independently deliver on milestones that may span across multiple systems within Billing.

• Make changes with care and precision, recognising the importance of correctness when working with financial data.

• Contribute to systems designed for scale, reliability, and security, following established architectural patterns.

• Write clear, well-structured, and well-tested code that meets team standards.

• Participate in code reviews, both giving and receiving constructive feedback.

• Work closely with other engineers, product managers, and designers to understand requirements and deliver solutions.

• Break down larger pieces of work into manageable tasks and estimate your own work with guidance.

• Help monitor and support production services, investigating and fixing issues as they arise.

• Contribute to shaping our team and wider engineering culture to ensure Paddle remains an exceptional place to work.

• Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Data, Risk, and Operations to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.

• Help shape product direction by providing technical insights, trade-offs, and delivery estimates.

• Partner with Customer Support or Operations teams to investigate and resolve production issues.

We'd love to hear from you if you:

• You have a development background with Go.

• Have experience designing and building systems to handle high traffic at scale in a cloud-based environment in AWS

• Are someone who enjoys collaborating with our technical and non-technical departments

• Have a proactive attitude towards finding ways to improve the code and team processes.

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

• A strong understanding of API principles and best practices.

• A proven track record of bias for action and strong customer focus.

• Solid communication and collaboration skills, you should be comfortable working alongside both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Are someone who takes pride in what you build.

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’re a diverse, growing group of Paddlers who pride ourselves on our transparent, collaborative and respectful culture.

We live and breathe our values, which are:

• Paddle Together - “None of us, is as smart as all of us”

• Paddle Simply - “Simple can be harder than complex: you have to get your thinking clean to make it simple”

• Paddle for others - “We can realise our wildest dreams, so long as we help enough other people to realise theirs”

We offer a full suite of benefits, including attractive salaries, stock options, unlimited holidays, enhanced parental leave, retirement plans, private healthcare and well-being initiatives.

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.

Connecting at Paddle

We’re a ‘digital-first’ company, which means our Paddlers always have the freedom to choose where, when and how they work within our hub locations.

We recognize that where our Paddlers do their best work is unique to them and we provide trust and autonomy for everyone to work in a way which fits them best. We also value the power of connection and have invested in global hubs which help local communities flourish and bring us together for focused collaboration.

Our Paddle hubs:

• In Europe: UK (London headquarters), Portugal (Lisbon hub), Netherlands and Ireland (Dublin hub)

• In North America: Austin, TX (USA) and Toronto (Canada)

• In APAC: Singapore

Our hub philosophy creates an engaging experience for all Paddlers, wherever, whenever and however we choose to work.

To support this, we focus hiring within our hubs and will always openly share the available locations for each open position on our job description.