Staff Engineer
For a real expert in Django and the Payments domain!
👋 Who are we?
Nordhealth (OB:NORDH) is the leading provider of cloud-based Practice Information Management Software (PIMS) to veterinary and therapy professionals.
Over the last three years, we have grown our Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and team size by almost 10x. Today, more than 30,000 therapy and veterinary professionals use our software everyday to help treat over 20 million patients annually across 35+ countries. It’s been an exciting growth journey so far and we are just getting started. Our mission is to enable healthcare professionals to deliver better patient care through software, with a goal to help serve over 200 million patients by 2030. In support of this growth mission, in May 2021, Nordhealth raised €120M through a public-listing on Euronext Growth Oslo stock exchange.
Nordhealth is a remote-first company, headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. Our 430+ employees work either remotely or from offices/collaboration hubs. While our market presence is currently strongest in the Nordics, our customer base is rapidly growing in North America and Europe, with clients in the US, UK, Spain and many others. For more information, visit our company’s website at www.nordhealth.com
About the role
As a cornerstone member of the Provet Pay team, the Staff Engineer designs, builds, and maintains the product end-to-end. You’ll act as a hands-on technical leader—partnering closely with Product Management, Design, and fellow engineers—to deliver robust, secure, and scalable software. Reporting to the Team Lead of Finance, you will be responsible to establish architectural patterns and engineering practices that favor simplicity, reliability, and long-term maintainability! 🚀
Some of the Success Factors:
Demonstrable experience working with Payment Processing Products
Creativity and proactive problem solving. Foresight into challenges and providing solutions
Comfortable working in a small team fostering a jack of all trades mentality.
Collaborative on the product vision and direction.
Timely and accurate communication on progress.
Your key responsibilities include:
Delivery of Solutions
Deliver high-quality, production-ready software that improves user satisfaction and drives adoption—covering online and offline terminal payments, reconciliation flows, and payouts.
Design with scalability, reliability, and observability in mind; favour straightforward solutions over over-engineering.
Iterate quickly with a mindset of continuous improvement, reducing complexity and optimising for speed of impact.
Team Leadership
Define and evolve ways of working for technical design and execution; optimise the path from ideation and validation to production.
Model end-to-end ownership—of both the problem and the solution—setting the tone for high standards, constructive feedback, and continuous learning.
Contribute to planning and prioritisation with clear proposals and data-informed suggestions.
What will help you to be successful in this role?
Ideally, you have already gained some experience from working in a fast growing, global SaaS company. In addition, our humble wishlist includes:
> 8 years of experience in software development
In depth knowledge of the Payments domain, understanding the lifecycle (Authorised, Captured, Disputes etc) both online and offline.
Expert in Django, with exposure to FastAPI
Experience with PaaS, specifically AWS, utilizing Lambda, SQS
Experience with IaC, AWS Cloud Formation is minimal and Terraform preferred
Proven experience in leadership by example, acting as a role model for engineers within the team
Preferred experience in building a platform used by other products, (UI and APIs)
What’s in it for you?
At Nordhealth, we do things a little bit differently. We value continuous improvement, diverse teams and autonomy which drive our collaboration. Our global healthcare domain is rapidly developing and we are seeking colleagues who enjoy working in this type of environment. 🌎
In addition, we offer:
The chance to work in a meaningful industry and in a fast-growing, global company on a path to changing digital healthcare
Competitive compensation and benefits
Learning and professional growth opportunities
The tools you need, and enjoy using
Frequent company events and talented colleagues from around the world
If you enjoy working in a fast-growing and international environment with the possibility to make an impact, this might be the perfect job for you. Apply now! We'll fill the position as soon as we find the right person.
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- Department
- Engineering
- Locations
- Europe
- Remote status
- Fully Remote

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