About us
Launched in 2012, Checkout.com is a leading international provider of online payment solutions. Checkout.com is built on 100% proprietary technology and handles every part of the payment process, providing complete transparency across the entire payment value chain.
We currently process 150+ currencies and offer access to all international cards and popular local payment methods to merchants through one integration.
Customers in our portfolio include international businesses like Samsung, Transferwise, Hopper, Virgin and Adidas. Our mission is to partner with smart businesses to optimise their payments, increase revenue and meet the dynamic needs of their customers.
We are building a unique work environment where our people aspire to solve complex problems and deliver valuable solutions. We believe that excellence can be achieved through a dynamic culture driven by collaboration and teamwork.
In May 2019, we raised $230m in what is Europe’s largest ever fintech Series A round, and globally the third largest fintech Series A round of all time. This fundraising round gave us a valuation of around $2 billion.
Technical Stack
Passionate about technology but not evangelists of any single one sums up our approach to technology selection, all developers are empowered to understand and question technology choice, an increasing number of our teams own the entire DevOps model for their products. The following are examples of technologies and frameworks used commonly throughout the business:
- Microservices based architectures
- AWS
- Terraform
Many ongoing and upcoming technical projects here at
Checkout.com are focused around the scalability and optimisation of high performant systems, so if the above stack and the challenges facing a fast-scaling, technically focused company interest you, hopefully you can make a great impact here!
About the Team - Tech Finance
A suite of products responsible for enhancing and optimisation
Checkout.com’s financial processes, becoming the golden source and distribution hub of financial data to a variety of end user groups. With
Checkout.com’s fast paced growth and complex business domain we thrive in the ongoing challenges of data integrity, granularity, and scalability.
The Tech Finance Products
Fort - our proprietary greenfield financial reconciliation and treasury management tool has numerous exciting technical challenges. With a complex and evolving business domain and a rapidly increasing volume of transactions, there are huge learning opportunities here. CQRS architecture with horizontal scaling and event sourcing are just some interesting technical aspects.
Merlin - Checkout’s internal ledger system, the source of truth, we expose this data via various reports and external facing APIs posing unique challenges in building for scale while maintaining integrity. We are making use of event driven design patterns along with PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL and DynamoDB.
FinDev - this is the domain critical to ensuring accurate pricing on all merchant transactions. It ingests financial data from various sources and applies business logic to drive ledger movements. It's a complex and evolving business domain with high throughput requirements.
