Senior Platform Engineer
Super Payments
Our mission is to use data and AI to make payments free for businesses, so that everyone wins. By removing payment fees and passing savings back to customers, we are disrupting the payments industry while helping businesses increase sales and loyalty.
With Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) free for merchants and 0% card payment processing, Super gives businesses a powerful way to reduce costs, grow sales, and reward customers.
Already trusted by thousands of businesses and more than 4 million customers, Super is growing fast, supported by leading investors including Accel, Union Square Ventures and LocalGlobe, and led by Samir Desai, founder and former CEO of Funding Circle.
Our Values
- Customer obsessed: We only succeed when our customers do.
- Move fast: Build, test and improve quickly. Progress matters more than perfection.
- Own it: Be accountable, solve problems, and make it happen.
- Be open: Act with honesty and respect. Transparency builds trust.
- Win together: Collaboration beats ego every time.
Our Technology
We leverage the latest tools and technologies to create a seamless, customer-centric digital experience. Our core stack is built around Node.js, TypeScript, and NestJS, with a front-end powered by React. We deploy using AWS cloud services and Kubernetes, ensuring scalability and resilience. Infrastructure as Code is fundamental to our approach, and we use Terraform to manage our cloud resources.
Our architecture is cloud-native, event-driven, and distributed, built on Amazon EventBridge and SQS, with services exposed via REST.
We are driven by data science, machine learning, and analytics, using multi-variant testing to personalise user experiences across every digital channel.
However, it’s not just about the technology. We are passionate about continuous delivery, automation, and rapid iteration. Our deployment pipeline is fully automated, covering everything from branching, building, testing, and shipping to monitoring and alerting—allowing us to focus on delivering value to our customers.
Technology is at the heart of our business, and we value diverse perspectives. Bring your ideas, experience, and problem-solving mindset—we’ll navigate obstacles together.
Technology:
- Platforms: Kubernetes (EKS) with Istio Service Mesh
- Observability: Datadog
- Databases: PostgreSQL (Aurora), Hashicorp Vault
- IaC: Terraform via Atlantis
- CI/CD: Github, Flux, Helm
What you’ll be doing;
- Helping to shape Super’s infrastructure from design to building and maintenance
- Empowering our product teams to ship fast by building a top class developer experience
- Contributing to engineering-wide initiatives, participating in technical discussions, architecture decisions, and best practice sharing.
- Supporting the growth of our engineering community, sharing knowledge through pairing, talks, and external speaking opportunities.
We’d love to hear from you if you have the following:
- In depth experience and expertise in Infrastructure including IaC, CI/CD and Kubernetes
- Experience working with cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Ability to diagnose problems at any level with a focus on reliability & scalability
- Experience of working in Financial Services in areas like payments, wealth management, or banking.
- Knowledge of designing PCI-compliant infrastructure
- Are comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving start-up environment.
- Can work independently, tackling ambiguous challenges and driving solutions forward
*The stated experience and background is a guide and does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience, provided the requisite skills can be demonstrated.
Our Benefits - here’s a few and more to come ….
- Tax advantage Share Options
- Flexible working model
- Work from home set up
- Learning & Development opportunities
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Team lunch and social evenings
- Your birthday off, plus one Revival day
If you are excited about sharing the adventure, joining a growing team with big ambitions and you are really great at what you do, then apply now!
Super Payments is an equal opportunity employer, embracing diversity in all its forms and fostering an inclusive environment. The company will not unlawfully discriminate on grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability or age, neurodiversity status, pregnancy or trade union membership.
Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments at any point during the application and/or recruitment process.
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