Senior Payments Engineer

Make payment, refund and reconciliation workflows understandable and dependable for restaurants and their customers.

The job

You will own engineering work where customer experience and financial correctness meet. A payment event may arrive late, a webhook may be repeated and a refund may start in a different system, so clear state modelling and traceability are essential. You will partner with product, operations and other engineers to design robust money-related workflows and support effective investigation. This is a software role.

What you would be doing

• Build and maintain payment-provider integrations for checkout, refunds and connected merchant accounts.
• Design idempotent webhook processing and explicit payment-state transitions.
• Develop reconciliation workflows that identify mismatches without silently changing financial records.
• Model monetary values, fees and rounding consistently across interfaces and storage.
• Create tests for repeated events, partial failures, refunds and delayed confirmations.
• Improve audit trails and internal tools used to investigate payment issues.
• Coordinate payment releases and provider changes with relevant engineering and operational teams.

What we are looking for

• Strong backend engineering experience on payment or other financially sensitive workflows.
• Understanding of idempotency, retries, reconciliation and reliable event processing.
• Confident SQL and data-modelling skills, including transactions and traceability.
• Ability to handle monetary calculations consistently without unsafe floating-point assumptions.
• Experience explaining complex failure modes to technical and non-technical colleagues.

Useful, but not essential

• Hands-on Stripe or Stripe Connect experience.
• Experience with multi-merchant commerce platforms.
• Familiarity with payment-security practices and minimising sensitive data exposure.

Tools you might use

• TypeScript
• Stripe
• Stripe Connect
• PostgreSQL
• Webhooks
• Integration testing

Your first 90 days

• Days 1–30Map payment and refund lifecycles and agree the most valuable correctness or visibility improvement.
• Days 31–60Deliver a scoped improvement with replayable test scenarios and useful diagnostics.
• Days 61–90Release the change, review exception handling and share a practical reconciliation-improvement plan.

The practical bits

• 2 days per week in the London office and 3 days working remotely within the UK.
• 37.5 hours per week, Monday–Friday. Core collaboration hours are agreed with the team.
• Occasional planned team or customer visits; approved expenses are reimbursed.

What we offer

• 30 days of annual leave plus public holidays
• A company pension contribution
• A £1,000 annual learning budget for courses, conferences or professional development
• A company laptop and role-appropriate equipment; engineering roles include a development setup
• Flexible start and finish times, agreed with your team around customer and collaboration needs
• Wellbeing support and regular development conversations with your manager
• Reimbursement of approved business travel and customer-visit expenses