Payments Backend Engineer

Playtomic; Madrid; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Restaurant tickets (63€ monthly)

Annual training budget

Job summary

Playtomic is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Payments team in Madrid. You will develop and maintain APIs and services to enable smooth frontend-backend communication and integrate third-party payment gateways to ensure secure transactions.

You will work with cross-functional teams to design innovative solutions, optimize payment processing, and uphold high performance and code quality in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with payment gateway integrations and secure transaction processing required.
• Proven backend engineer with knowledge of web stack, APIs, and scalable architectures.
• Familiarity with Spring Boot, Java, MongoDB, MySQL (Aurora) and Kubernetes preferred.
• Strong communication to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and meet timelines.
• Located in Madrid or able to travel to Madrid as needed.
• Excellent spoken and written English.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain APIs and services enabling frontend-backend communication and 3rd-party integrations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design innovative solutions.
• Integrate and optimize secure payment processing with gateways and industry standards.
• Ensure high performance and responsiveness of backend services.
• Maintain code quality through reviews, profiling, and best practices.

Skills

Payment gateways

Backend engineering

APIs design

Communication

Analytical problem-solving

Fast-paced environment

English proficiency

Travel to Madrid if required

Education

Bachelors in CS/Engineering

Tools

Spring Boot 3

Java 17

MongoDB

MySQL Aurora

Kubernetes

Job description

Your mission As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Payments team at Playtomic, you will be responsible for developing robust and scalable payments solutions for our product, ensuring high performance, consistent and secure transactions.

What you’ll be doing

• Develop and maintain APIs and their services, enabling seamless communication between the frontend and backend, and facilitating third-party integrations to enhance the overall functionality of the payments services.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, product designers and frontend/mobile engineers, to devise innovative solutions.
• Collaborate with third-party payment gateways to integrate and optimize secure payment processing, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests from the frontend.
• Maintain a high code quality by continuously optimizing and improving our backend through code reviews, profiling, and implementing best practices and company's standards.

Who you’ll be playing with

You will be part of the engineering team (+50 people) reporting directly to an Engineering Manager, working in the Payments team in daily collaboration with Product and other engineers.

Our Ideal "Player"

• Experience with payment gateway integrations and secure transaction processing is a must.
• Proven experience as a Backend Engineer. Familiarity with the whole web stack, including protocols, system architecture, database design, and web server optimization techniques. In particular, experience with Spring Boot 3, Java 17, MongoDB, MySQL (aurora), Kubernetes is preferred.
• Extensive experience in designing, developing, and maintaining APIs.
• Strong communication skills to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing technical challenges.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and dynamic work environment, with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions within specified timelines.
• Located in Madrid or able to travel to Madrid when needed
• Excellent spoken and written English is a must
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Extra points

• Proven track record in designing and implementing payment systems or financial platforms.
• Experience working with remote and partially remote and multicultural teams.
• Experience working in start-ups and scale-ups

What’s in it for you

• Social benefits (63 € a month in one of these: health insurance/tickets restaurant), flexible salary in training and kindergarten.
• Gympass discounts in several plans that include gyms, personal classes, access to free apps of wellbeing, nutrition etc.
• Annual budget for training
• Opportunity to work in a top international team
• 23 days of vacation + day off on your birthday + 2 days off for Wellness days in August.
• 1 additional day off per year worked.

Our hiring process

1st interview with People Team - 2nd interview with Playtomic's Engineering Managers, Technical Leadership and Product to assess your technical, product and communication skills.

About PLAYTOMIC

We are world’s largest racket sports App for players and clubs. Our goal is to socialize sports practice: through the app, players can book courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social community dedicated to playing. Since 2017, Playtomic has earned the trust of national and international investors, consolidating it as one of the main world players in sports digitalization. You will find +150 co-workers around the world with headquarters in Spain and offices in Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, UK, EEUU and Mexico. Take a look to our candidate playbook!

Payments Backend Engineer Madrid, Community of Madrid, ES