At EatClub, we believe restaurants and bars are the beating heart of every city’s culture. Whether it's discovering a hidden gem, grabbing a late-night takeaway, or meeting friends for a drink, our mission is simple: help the hospitality industry thrive through smart, powerful tech.

Our platform helps over 4 million customers discover top restaurants and access real-time deals that save them up to 50% off the bill. We empower more than 8,000 venues to fill empty tables, increase foot traffic, and maximise revenue.

#1 app in Food & Drink and awarded Australia's Fastest Growing Tech Company by the AFR in 2025. Now is an exciting time to join our team. Initially co-founded by Marco Pierre White and leaders in the food tech scene, we're now a 200+ person scaleup that's growing fast and making waves in the industry.

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

- Be part of an innovative company shaping the future of dining
- Autonomy, flexibility, high-performing, and a collaborative culture
- A passionate team who values creativity, hustle and results
- Access to some of the best restaurants and hospitality leaders in the industry
- Staff discounts and dining vouchers to enjoy through EatClub

A Day-in-a-Life of our Staff Engineer, Payments

As our Staff Engineer, Payments, you bring deep payments expertise to the squad that moves money through EatClub: from the customer's tap at a venue, through our payment partners, to the venue being paid. Working closely with the squad's tech lead, you will help shape the technical direction of our payments platform across Australia, the UK and New Zealand, lead the design of its most complex and consequential pieces, and stay hands‑on in the code. You are the engineer we put in front of our payment partners,



banks and card schemes when the conversation gets technical, and a trusted voice when the business needs to understand a payments trade‑off. You will also help us prepare for the next stage of our payments strategy as we grow. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role, not a people‑management role and not a slide‑deck architecture role.

On any given week, you will be:

- Partnering with the product manager and the tech lead on the direction of our payments platform and helping turn it into a roadmap the business can plan around
- Leading the design of our hardest payment problems and explaining the trade‑offs in plain language
- Representing the squad in technical conversations with our payment partners, acquirers and card schemes
- Introducing an external perspective on industry best practices for payments and helping the team implement them
- Strengthening our reliability, risk and compliance posture at the platform level
- Writing production code on the most consequential changes, reviewing the rest, and raising the bar for the engineers around you
- Contributing payments expertise to the CPTO and tech lead on where our payments capability goes next

Projects you'll be working on at EatClub...

Sample initiatives you may lead:

- Helping establish a single, documented source of truth for how our payments work,



and the practices that keep it current
- Leading the design of improvements to core payment flows that lift approval rates, reliability and customer experienceStrengthening our ledger and settlement foundations so money is accounted for correctly, end to end
- Shaping a payments architecture that treats Australia, the UK and New Zealand as first‑class markets
- Designing reusable integration patterns for our bank and loyalty partners
- Contributing to the technical path for the next stage of our card and payments strategy
- At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years building production payment systems at a fintech, payments company, acquirer, issuer, scheme or bank
- A track record of leading the design of significant payments work and carrying it through to production
- Deep, practical understanding of card payments and the behaviour of schemes, acquirers and payment providers in the real world
- Experience designing ledgers, settlement and reconciliation systems where correctness is measured in cents
- Solid backend engineering in a modern language on cloud infrastructure, with the judgement to know when a design is good enough to ship
- Working knowledge of PCI DSS and of designing systems that minimise compliance scope
- Experience leading incident response for payment systems and reducing incident load through structural change
- A record of making the engineers around you better through design reviews and mentoring
- Credibility with executives and external partners: you can explain a payments trade‑off to a CEO, a bank and a scheme and be understood by all three
- Fluenc

📌 Staff Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 EatClub
📍 Sydney