Associate Software Engineer - Pay Web in Belfast

Olo is a leading SaaS platform accelerating digital transformation in the restaurant industry, by helping customers deliver more personalised and profitable guest experiences. As a result, our digital ordering, payment, and guest engagement solutions enable hospitality at scale, helping brands to do more with less, and making every guest feel like a regular.

While our roots are in NYC, we’re intentionally investing in Belfast and Northern Ireland as a key hub, with an established leadership presence, a local team, and community for the long term. This role is fully remote, offering you flexibility to work from anywhere within NI.

Your new role

We are looking for a talented Associate Software Engineer to join our Payments Web Team and help drive innovation in our payment solutions. We are looking for an engineer who is passionate about creating seamless, user-friendly interfaces and front-end capabilities that empower restaurants to manage their payment operations efficiently. This is a Full-Stack position so you'll work end-to-end across the full tech stack, but lean more towards Front-End capabilities.

Reporting to the Team Lead, you will play a crucial role in developing and enhancing our payment product, Olo Pay. You'll focus on building foundational technical skills and contribute to small-to-medium tasks with guidance. Engineers in this role will learn the team's domain and technology stack, write code adhering to established standards, and participate in code reviews and sprint ceremonies with the expectation to focus on quality, collaboration, and learning.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Develop an understanding of the team's domain and technology stack and actively seeks guidance to grow technical expertise.
• Handle small-to-medium features with support from more senior engineers, ensuring tasks are completed according to set timelines.
• Write code adhering to established coding standards and participates in code reviews to learn best practices.
• Collaborate with team members to understand feature requirements and implements solutions with guidance.
• Focus on building reliable and maintainable software components, contributing to team deliverables with a focus on quality.
• Utilise version control systems to manage code changes and maintain a consistent development workflow.
• Participate in team meetings and sprint ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups and sprint retrospectives, contributing updates and feedback.
• Engage in learning activities, including game days and training sessions, to build familiarity with the company's tools and processes.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues with guidance, learning to identify and resolve common software bugs.
• Demonstrate a willingness to collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders, developing teamwork skills necessary for larger projects.
• Demonstrate ownership of the team's delivery pipeline, ensuring that code quality, testing standards, and deployment practices are continuously optimised.
• Active participation in on-call duties is required, with specific responsibilities determined by your assigned team and area of expertise.

What Will Set You Up for Success

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of one year industry experience in a Software Engineering/Development position (post academic studies).
• Basic Programming Skills: Proficient in at least one programming language (ideally C#, TypeScript, React) and familiar with basic programming constructs and design patterns.
• Version Control Systems: Basic understanding of version control tools (e.g., GitHub) and how to use them for source code management.
• Unit Testing: Familiarity with writing unit tests to validate small software components and test-driven development frameworks (e.g., NUnit, Jest).
• Distributed Systems Fundamentals: Basic understanding of how distributed systems work, focusing on building reliable components.
• Collaboration Tools: Experience using collaboration platforms for development, such as Jira, Confluence, and GitHub.

About Olo

Olo is a leading restaurant technology provider with ordering, payment, and guest engagement solutions that help brands increase orders, streamline operations, and improve the guest experience. Each day, Olo processes millions of orders on its open SaaS platform, gathering the right data from each touchpoint into a single source—so restaurants can better understand and better serve every guest on every channel, every time. Over 800 restaurant brands trust Olo and its network of more than 400 integration partners to innovate on behalf of the restaurant community, accelerating technology’s positive impact and creating a world where every restaurant guest feels like a regular.