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What they do

Checkout.com runs a payments platform for online businesses. Merchants use it to accept payments, pay out to cards and bank accounts, issue cards, and fight fraud. Postings name eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony as customers, and state over 10 billion transactions a year. The company launched in 2012 and has 20 offices, with London as its headquarters.

What they value

• Customer First: solve customer problems and deliver the best outcomes for clients.
• Be the Owner: take initiative, and stay accountable to customers and colleagues.
• Athlete Mindset: plan with rigor and set more ambitious goals each time.
• Pace Matters: act with urgency, because speed of response and execution count.
• No Room for Approximation: be detail oriented and data-driven.
• Being Together: plan, build, ship, and celebrate in person.

Where they hire

Of 158 Postings, London has 78. Ebene has 11, Paris and New York have 9 each, and Singapore has 8. The others are in cities such as Shanghai, San Francisco, Dubai, Atlanta, and Amsterdam. Every Posting states a hybrid model with three office days a week. Four Postings give Home-based, Mexico as the place. No Posting mentions visa sponsorship.

Teams and roles

The board has 158 Postings, all full-time. The company's site groups its teams into commercial, compliance, finance, legal, marketing, operations, people, product, risk, and technology.

• Software engineering: 21 Postings, the largest team, from Software Engineer I to Staff Engineer and Senior Engineering Manager. They cover backend, mobile, machine learning, streaming data, and cloud security.
• Data: data scientists for fraud, payment success, and identity verification, plus an analytics engineer and product data scientists.
• Product and design: 7 Postings in product management, for areas such as fraud, orchestration, and commerce through AI agents, and 3 in product design.
• Commercial: 9 Postings in sales, 8 in account management, and 8 in solutions engineering, plus technical account managers and business development representatives.
• Risk and compliance: 6 Postings in risk monitoring and 5 in compliance, plus underwriting. The work covers customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, and fraud and disputes.
• Legal and finance: 9 Postings in legal, 5 in financial reporting and controls, and 3 in treasury.
• Other teams: talent acquisition, marketing, IT, and workplace experience.

What they look for

Software engineer Postings ask for C# .NET, Java, or Go, and for experience in backend or full-stack work. They ask for a degree in computer science or a related field. They say that payments knowledge is a plus, not a necessity. The Senior Golang Engineer Posting asks for expert Go, AWS, microservices, and systems with high throughput and high availability. The Staff streaming Posting asks for Kafka, Flink, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.

Product and design Postings ask for proof that you owned a hard problem from start to launch. The product manager Posting for agentic commerce asks for working knowledge of card payments. The Senior Product Designer Posting asks for a portfolio of shipped B2B web products. Several Postings ask you to use AI tools in your daily work, or to be curious about them.

Sales Postings ask for enterprise sales experience in the payments industry. Risk and compliance Postings ask for knowledge of anti-money laundering (AML) rules and of customer due diligence, with strong attention to detail. Roles tied to one market ask for its language with English, such as German in Berlin or French in Paris. Most Postings ask for clear communication with stakeholders.