Senior Backend Engineer

About Us

Founded in 2015, MishiPay ( https://mishipay.com/ ) brings the best of the online checkout experience to physical stores. We do this with our Scan, Pay and Go technology. Using our native apps on Android or iOS, or our web app available on the user s browser, customers scan the products they wish to buy in store using their own phone, pay instantly and can then simply exit the store with their items. As the leading Scan and Go provider, we work with some of the world s largest retailers including MUJI , Virgin Megastore , Flying Tiger Copenhagen , Paradies Lagard re , Dubai Duty Free , Grandiose Supermarket . What s more, we are backed by fantastic investors including American Express, Nauta Capital and United Ventures.

MishiPay is growing at a very fast pace with our users increasing by over 600% year-on-year. The work is challenging and requires you to be on top of your game but if the adventure and journey excites you then this is the place for you. We want to make sure that in exchange for this commitment from our team, we offer them the best package possible in terms of options, salary and bonus linked to the success of the business. You ll also quickly see the impact of your work in the real world as MishiPay is live in 14 countries across the globe.

About The Role

We are looking for a Sr Backend Developer to join our talented engineering squad. The team is responsible for our main infrastructure and delivering the necessary tools to create the best in-store experience possible.

You ll work closely with the Director of Engineering and other squad members, alongside the Product, Payment, Security and Delivery teams achieving the roadmap which has been set against our top business priorities. You ll work on getting rid of tech debt, deploy best in class systems and architecture and ensure that we can scale to 1000s of stores while maintaining system performance at over 99.9% at the push of a button.

You should have experience building microservices from scratch that have over time scaled to Millions of requests. Experience working with retail systems such as inventory, promotions, ERP, EPOS, loyalty programmes or payments in a physical or online retail environment is a huge plus for this position. If youre a startup enthusiast who is passionate about solving complex problems and wants to learn something new everyday, wed absolutely love to speak to you!

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver stability of over 99.95% across MishiPay s key platforms
• Achieve ability to scale the infrastructure so it can handle up to 100k transactions a day
• Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/add enhancements improve performance of large scale services.
• Actively work to clear tech-debt as we continue developing new technology.
• Coach and mentor junior team members
• Prepare high quality technical documentation
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Required Experience

• 3 to 5 years development experience using Python programming language (preferably also knows NodeJS)
• Experience with at least one relational like PostgreSQL, MySQL also one NoSQL database like MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB
• Hands on experience with at least one major cloud provider like AWS, Azure or GCP (Azure preferred)
• Hands-on experience with at least one of the deployments-orchestration technologies like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm etc
• (bonus) Hands-on experience with event-driven services and technologies like Kafka, Amazon SQS, Apache Spark etc
• (bonus) Worked in a startup that has seen scale or coming from an entrepreneur background
• (bonus) Experience of fintech, retail-system and technologies

Why MishiPay

You ll work with an inspirational multi-cultural team, based in our central London HQ, the US and Bangalore, who are redefining the retail industry globally. We offer a tight-knit, collaborative and exciting work environment, coupled with the opportunity to see the apps we develop live in action within some of the world s largest retailers, impacting the lives of millions of shoppers.