Staff Software Engineer

UK London

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Platform

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9 Jun 2025

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R-0004002

We’re reinventing payments.
In less than four years, Dojo disrupted the market to become the largest and most loved acquirer in the UK. Our payments infrastructure, purpose-built for in-person commerce, is game changing.
Now, over 150,000 customers across four countries choose to transact billions with us every year.
But we’re just getting started.
Our people are the driving force behind our success. They are our greatest investment and our ultimate competitive advantage. We hire exceptional people and give them the autonomy, trust, and ownership to thrive. The results take care of themselves.

The Role

At Dojo, the Platform team builds the foundation that enables our engineering teams to move faster and innovate with confidence. We provide self-serve capabilities and scalable tools that empower teams to work autonomously, eliminate bottlenecks, and drive efficiency. By streamlining access to essential infrastructure and services, we accelerate the ability of teams to deliver value to our customers quickly and at scale.

The Staff Engineer on the Platform team at Dojo is a pivotal technical leadership role responsible for shaping the future of our developer platform. You will be instrumental in designing, building, and evolving the foundational services and automation that power Dojo's products and enable our engineering teams to innovate with speed, confidence, and scale. This role requires a profound depth of technical expertise, a strategic mindset, and the ability to lead through influence. You will tackle our most complex infrastructure challenges, setting technical direction, mentoring other engineers, and driving initiatives that have a broad impact across the entire engineering organisation. Your focus will be on ensuring our infrastructure is robust, scalable, secure, and cost-effective, acting as a technical pillar for the Platform team and a trusted advisor to other engineering teams.

What You Will Do

  • Technical Leadership & Vision: Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for platform infrastructure, balancing reliability, scalability, and developer experience. Lead technical initiatives that shape the service architecture, infrastructure automation, and developer workflows.
  • Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner deeply with senior stakeholders including engineering leaders, product teams, and platform engineers to align platform capabilities with organizational goals. Facilitate cross-team projects, resolve complex multi-team technical challenges, and mentor senior engineers.
  • Platform Innovation: Research, evaluate, and introduce cutting-edge cloud-native technologies, platform engineering practices, and Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Kafka, Crossplane, Terraform) to continuously evolve Dojo’s platform offerings.
  • Enhance Developer Experience: Advocate for tooling and infrastructure that enhances developer experience by reducing cognitive overhead, accelerating feedback, and streamlining workflows. Prioritise facilitating flow state and boosting engineering satisfaction, leading to higher quality and sustained productivity through a confident, efficient, and minimally disruptive work environment.
  • Operational Excellence & Reliability: Establish and promote best practices for monitoring, incident response, and platform maintenance. Drive automation of operational tasks to improve stability and developer velocity and reduction of TOIL.
  • Mentorship & Team Growth: Mentor and coach Platform engineers, promoting technical curiosity, shared ownership, and continuous learning within your area of accountability. Align your mentorship efforts with your defined responsibilities to contribute effectively to team development and success.

 

What You Will Bring

  • A strong and proven track record of designing, building, deploying, and operating complex, scalable, and reliable backend systems and infrastructure, particularly in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS).
  • Deep technical expertise in software engineering best practices, distributed system design, and cloud infrastructure, coupled with hands-on proficiency in platform engineering technologies such as container orchestration (Kubernetes), distributed systems (e.g., Kafka), and Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Crossplane, Pulumi).
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, provide technical mentorship, and make impactful contributions that advance the technical capabilities and strategic direction of an engineering organisation.
  • Exceptional software engineering and backend development skills, including strong coding proficiency in one or more languages such as Golang, Java, or .Net, applied to building robust applications within a service-oriented architecture, alongside expertise in automated deployments through declarative configurations (e.g., GitOps, blue-green).
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical solutions clearly and collaborate effectively with diverse teams and leadership to solve complex infrastructure challenges.
  • A product-led mindset focused on customer needs and business value, with a strong understanding of discovery processes for future opportunities and the delivery of strategic initiatives.

Dojo home and away

We believe our best work happens when we collaborate in-person. These “together days” foster communication, drive innovation and spark our brightest ideas.

That's why we have an office-first culture. This means working from the office 4+ days per week.

With offices across Europe, we know a thing or two about staying dynamic. Need deep focus? Head to a quiet zone. Big ideas? Collaboration spaces have you covered. Just here for a catch-up? Our social hubs make it easy. Do work that counts, in spaces made for you.


Question: what’s curious, relentless, and customer obsessed?

If you’re keen to know the answer, you’re a third of the way to meeting our Dojo values.

If the following speak to you, let’s talk:

  • You’re curious. You have a real desire to learn and create.
  • You’re relentless. You keep going even when it’s easier not to. 
  • You’re customer-obsessed. You know how important customers are to what you do. 

 

Diversity, equity, and inclusion at Dojo

From local bakeries to well-known eateries, Dojo payments serve over 140,000 places across the UK. 

And something that’s fundamental to creating relevant, innovative products at Dojo is to build teams to reflect the diversity of the businesses we serve.

Our drive to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion is closely linked to helping employees thrive and innovating for better customer experiences.

If you care about your work, you’re curious, and you think customer-first, you have a place at Dojo.

To make sure you’re the best you can be throughout the recruitment process, let us know if you need any extra adjustments to help you thrive. 

 

Visit dojo.careers to find out more about our benefits and what it’s like to work at Dojo, or check out our LinkedIn and Instagram pages. 

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Dojo is a trading name of Paymentsense Limited. Copyright ©2025 Paymentsense Limited. All rights reserved. Paymentsense Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA FRN 738728) and under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 (FCA FRN 900925) for the issuing of electronic money and provision of payment services.