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We are Billie, the leading provider of Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment methods for businesses, offering B2B companies innovative digital payment services and modern checkout solutions. We are to create a new standard for business payments and have made it our mission to simplify the purchasing experience for all businesses making it a tool for growth. Our solutions are based on proprietary, machine-learning-supported risk models, fully digitized processes and a highly scalable tech platform. This makes us a deep-tech company building financial products, not the other way around. We love building simple and elegant solutions and we strive for automation and scalability.
Software Engineer, Purchase Team
About the Role
As a Software Engineer on our Purchase team, you'll architect, build, and scale our core buyer systems that power millions in transaction volume. You'll work in an autonomous engineering team tackling challenging technical problems with measurable business impact. We operate in a hybrid work environment with flexible arrangements based on team needs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design & Develop: Create robust, scalable software solutions for our payments platform using modern PHP practices and event-driven architecture
- Own Quality: Implement comprehensive testing strategies and maintain 99.9%+ uptime for mission-critical payment systems
- Drive Innovation: Lead technical initiatives to improve performance, reduce operational costs, and enhance user experience
- Collaborate & Mentor: Participate in pair programming sessions, lead code reviews, and mentor junior engineers
- Champion Engineering Excellence: Implement CI/CD pipelines, contribute to our technical documentation, and advocate for best practices
- Measure Impact: Track and report on key technical metrics that drive business outcomes
Technical Requirements
Must-Have:
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong PHP development expertise with Symfony framework
- Experience building and maintaining high-availability production systems
- Solid understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures
- Proficiency with Git, CI/CD practices, and automated testing
- Experience with relational databases and query optimization
Nice to Have:
- Experience with JVM-based languages (Java/Kotlin)
- Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Understanding of Domain-Driven Design principles
- Experience with message brokers (Kafka/RabbitMQ)
- Background in the fintech or payments industry
Who You Are:
- Problem Solver: You approach complex challenges methodically and create elegant solutions
- Team Player: You thrive in collaborative environments and embrace practices like TDD and pair programming
- Communicator: You articulate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Product-Minded: You understand how technical decisions impact user experience and business outcomes
- Continuous Learner: You stay current with industry trends and are eager to expand your skillset
What we offer:
- Challenging and impactful work that drives personal and professional growth
- One of the best Virtual Shares Incentive Programs in the market, so that everyone at Billie is invested in our success
- Flexible work hours and trust in your ability to deliver, empowering you to take control of your work-life balance
- A hybrid working approach that allows you to work from home for up to 3 days per week
- Enjoy 30 days vacation per year on top of paid public holidays, sabbatical opportunities, and extra child sickness leave for parents
- Our "Catch a Ride with Billie" program that enables discounted access to Berlin Public Transport (BVG), Deutschland-Ticket, OR JobRad
- A yearly development budget to broaden your skill set and horizons
- Free German group classes
- An English-speaking, multicultural team with more than 40 nationalities represented
- Building meaningful connections with your colleagues through company and team events, interest groups, the Billie run club, game nights, and more, powered by our Formula Fun Team!
- Great office space at Checkpoint Charlie with free gym access, barista coffee, drinks and more
Billie offers you the opportunity to be a part of one of the fastest-growing Fintech startups in Europe following the mission to innovate to create new freedom for businesses of all sizes. Our combined decades of experience in B2B Financing and Payments in a market thirsty for innovation and change make this a fantastic possibility to get into the most dynamic space in tech.
Join an international team of talented, passionate people where drive and merit matter. We work in nimble, cross-functional teams with open communication lines across the company. You'll be surrounded by smart people from a wide variety of backgrounds from which you can learn and that want to learn from you.
Are you ready to join Billie?
Billie is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment in our workplace. By embracing talents and abilities of all kinds, we aim to boost motivation and team creativity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, age, marital status, gender, political views, beliefs, sexual orientation, color, disability status, or any other demographic factors.
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