Staff Software Engineer - Backend

UK London

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Core Payments

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14 Aug 2025

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R-0004104

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 

We’re on the hunt for a Staff Backend Engineer to join one of the most business-critical orgs at DOJO: Payments. You’ll make an impact across multiple squads; and will be behind the authorisation systems that keep money moving, 24/7, across millions of transactions. You’ll help to design, build, and evolve the backbone of our payments infrastructure - and the ripple effect of your work will be felt by every DOJO customer.

Our vision? To make payments feel invisible, instant, secure, and utterly seamless. The kind of magic that allows our customers to focus entirely on their business, knowing their transactions just work. We’re building a platform that goes beyond reliability; it’s about creating trust, enabling growth, and making every exchange part of something bigger.

If you’re passionate about building resilient systems and love tackling problems that truly matter, this is your stage. You’ll shape the future of payments at DOJO!

What you will do
  • Set the technical strategy for your domain, aligning with engineers and other leaders with decisions that will directly impact our customers.
  • Proactively address challenges, identifying high-impact technical gaps and risks, and lead initiatives to address them.
  • Collaborate with EMs, PMs, and ETLs to ensure a balance between feature development and technical maturity.
  • Ensure our platform's high reliability by discovering and implementing technical solutions across the stack.
  • Drive community standards, helping to define engineering principles as a key member of the Staff Engineering community.
  • Support engineers of all experience levels and foster a collaborative and open culture.
What will you bring
  • Deep technical expertise, seen as a point of contact for engineers seeking direction.
  • The ability to guide teams through ambiguous challenges and technical discovery.
  • Strong communication skills, capable of explaining complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience working in a cloud environment, preferably GCP or AWS.
  • Hands on experience with microservices and event-driven systems using languages such as Golang/.NET/Java.
  • Experience in designing, developing and maintaining large-scale production applications.
  • Product centric thinking and pride in creating good quality and well maintained software.

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 150,000 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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