Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Are you ready to unleash your full potential?  We’re looking for people who are passionate about payments to chart Worldpay’s path to being the largest and most-loved payments company in the world.

About the team

We consistently develop and deliver new features onto our live platform. This platform handles millions of merchant transactions around the clock while delivering a robust feature set aimed at boosting our merchant’s payments capabilities. These features, along with our ability to consistently deliver them, make us stand out in the highly competitive payments business. Our engineering team is critical to our mission; we are fundamentally a technology company. We succeed by offering innovative features to our merchants while retaining the reliability, quality, and fault tolerance they require.  

Future platform development work utilizes microservices, cloud-based architecture with best of breed technologies to promote easier scaling and maintenance.  The development environment aims to continually improve as new technologies are considered for the purpose of gains made in efficiency or effectiveness.  Service codebases rely on a large suite of automated tests to help find defects early in the life cycle.  Software development teams have true ownership of the services as they build, release, and operate. 

What you will be doing

Worldpay provides a leading in-house payment management platform (SaaS - Software as a Service) that serves high-volume merchants such as Netflix, Overstock.com, GoDaddy, and many more. At Worldpay, we know that our platform is only as good as the people behind it. We are looking for talented people who are eager to learn about our technology and, more importantly, about the details that make our business tick. As a Software Engineer, your skills will be at the core of changing the way the world pays, banks, and invests. You’ll plan and manage application development and client delivery activities that range from small, simple software applications to components of large, complex software applications. 

• Design, develop, and test software for scalability, reliability, and data recovery associated with a high-volume, high-availability platform 
• Collaborate with other internal teams (Product, Platform, Merchant Services and Support) to convert business requirements into technical solutions 
• Use Agile software techniques such as pair programming and test-driven development to maximize productivity and quality 
• Deploy new features into production with zero platform downtime and no impact to end customers who are currently processing 
• Build domain expertise in e-commerce payments and apply engineering expertise to develop new product features 
• Work in a "team focused" culture, where strong collaboration and communication are critical

What you bring:

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science or other related discipline or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience. 
• 8+ years of relevant on the job experience in Java Software Engineering, not including internships. 
• Exceptional design and SQL and Java programming skills
• Ability to quickly grasp high-level business goals, derive requirements, and translate them into effective technical solutions 
• Ability to fluidly change context and priorities based on changing business needs 
• Experience with Microservices architecture, globally distributed services, and 24/7 support 
• Experience with RESTful API design, and cloud technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka 
• Proficiency with SQL, relational data modelling, and database schema design

Added bonus if you have:

• Experience with design and implementation of monitoring and responsive, self-healing resilient immutable platforms 
• Knowledge of scalability levers in high volume, low latency transactional systems      
• Experience working in AWS, OpenShift Platform 
• Experience with Ansible, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Black Duck, Checkmarx, SonarQ, Cucumber, Karate 
• Experience with Splunk, Sysdig, OpsGenie, Dynatrace, Instaclustr, Prometheus, JBehave, JGiven 
• Development experience with a unit testing framework (JUnit and experience employing TDD preferred) 
• Pair programming experience. A willingness to try is a requirement

What we offer you

• A competitive salary and benefits
• A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities
• The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in the payment industry
• Time to support charities and give back in your community