Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for producing clean, scalable, and reusable code. You’ll help deliver products which will have a big impact on our customers. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to architecture and take ownership and accountability of parts of the product.

What Excites You

• The opportunity to work within a super talented engineering team, contributing to design and development of features and new services from end to end, as we continue to scale our product.
• Writing code that is clear, concise, well tested, and easy to understand. Using modern technology like AWS serverless infrastructure and events driven microservice architecture
• Taking ownership over product changes made, ensuring successful deployment as well as bug fixes and improvement.
• Helping to scale the team by leading on technical interviews.

What Excites Us

• 2+ years of strong software engineering experience building complex and scalable software solutions that are used heavily by thousands of people with high throughput.
• Experience with server side technologies like Python, Java, C#, Ruby, GoLang, JavaScript or any other backend language.
• Enthusiasm to learn, and contribute towards design and architecture of scalable systems and developing API heavy software solutions.
• A passion for software engineering best practice, and delivering well tested, high performant and quality code.

Some of the projects you could be working on:

• Integration into all physical stores and merchants with POS. Consumers can spend their value where they want to as we go beyond Gift Cards.
• Continued development of our infrastructure. Transitioning to serverless infrastructure and microservices to enable us to scale rapidly as a team
• Building a brand new internal tool chain. So non technical teams can on-board new payment partners
• Building our wallet feature. Consumers can aggregate the value they accumulate and spend that digital value when and where they choose to.
• Technical resilience. As we become more integral to our customers’ businesses, how can we make sure that we can continue to serve them even when there are technical or logistics issues upstream.

Recent examples of new features:

• Runa Select. This allows us to give the customer choice, and therefore go beyond simply reselling gift cards and towards our strategic vision of helping value to flow more freely in the global economy. This project was technically challenging due to a requirement for it to work across a wide selection of devices.
• Self-serve brand on-boarding. Runa is growing rapidly, which means we have to challenge ourselves to use technology to give a great experience to our brand partners without them needing a lot of support from the customer success team.
• Ongoing integration with gift card processors. Right at the heart of Runa operations, this technology needs to scale seamlessly and maintain high standards of reliability, maintainability and security. We’re also constantly asking ourselves how we can make this process more efficient - how can we make a capital investment now to reduce operational spend in the future, and that in turn requires a creative take on the underlying technology.