Senior Staff Software Engineer

Why Recharge

At Recharge, we're revolutionising prepaid payments! From call credits to gaming, entertainment and more, we make online recharge easy, anytime, anywhere.

Join us in our exciting journey of an ambitious scaleup in a state of rapid growth & make a real impact. Together, we believe we can create something extraordinary.

Let's skip the corporate talk and get to the good stuff: we offer 15,000+ products, have secured $70 million in funding and achieved over 20% growth in 2023. Our goal? €75 million in revenue by 2024. With 1.1 million app downloads last year, 5 million active customers, a presence in 180 countries and a diverse team of 160+ employees from 40+ nationalities, we’re just getting started.

We’re searching for passionate and driven individuals to join our mission. If this sounds like you, consider this your sign: we want you on our team!

The Role

Recharge.com is looking for an ambitious and experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our historic transformation as we build a new platform from the ground up. 

You are a highly experienced and influential leader within the organisation, responsible for driving technical excellence, delivering strategic initiatives, and shaping the future direction of the product and engineering teams. You possess exceptional technical skills, strong leadership abilities, and a deep understanding of the business context in which you operate.

What will I do?

• Driving technical design and best practices among the engineering group along with Principal Engineers, while partnering with Product Management and Design

• Developing and maintaining high-quality, reliable software with a strong focus on automation and cloud solutions.

• Handling complex tasks independently, ensuring consistent delivery with minimal issues

• Enhancing and enforcing Recharge's standard frameworks and policies, fostering understanding and adoption across the team

• Conducting code reviews and pair programming to support the production of clean, quality code

• Advocating and implementing DevOps practices to streamline the product development lifecycle

• Participating in the support rota for out-of-hours technical assistance

• Contributing to and leading product group objectives, mentoring less experienced engineers, and fostering a culture of learning and improvement

• Focusing on software development metrics, continuously seeking improvement

• Actively participating in product planning, roadmap development, and promoting innovative approaches

• Driving the growth of Recharge.com by leading recruitment efforts and actively sharing knowledge to support the development and success of colleagues.

What You Have

• You have 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer and experience with key leadership roles as a Staff Engineer, Tech Lead, or Principal Engineer, effectively guiding technical teams

• You’ve worked with product(s) that impact millions of customers across the world

• Proven experience with React, NextJS, Node, NestJS, TypeScript and GraphQL

• Proficiency in database technologies like Postgres, SQL, and Prisma. Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, AWS CKD and Kubernetes

• Experience in microservice architecture, NX and AWS

• You have driven successful technical and business related initiatives that improved productivity, performance and quality

• Knowledge of event streaming platforms like Nats, Kafka or AWS EventBridge

• Highly collaborative way of working and ability to make robust technical decisions

• A strong communicator, skilled at engaging in technical discussions, generating innovative ideas, and working autonomously or collaboratively

• Focused on customer experience and driven by a strong business acumen, always aligning technical decisions with business objectives

• You champion, role model, and embed Recharge’s engineering principles (Streamline success, Craft excellence, Do more with less, Use automation, Collaborative ownership, Insights to action).

What we offer