Senior Software Engineer

Your opportunity:

In its journey to become the most loved payment service provider in Europe, Mollie is continuously investing and growing its Engineering department. We recently successfully launched an Engineering Hub in Lisbon and we are set to replicate this journey in one of the most vibrant cities in Europe: Milan! Milan’s hub will contribute to Mollie’s mission with multiple passionate agile engineering teams that will innovate, build and contribute to our portfolio of next-generation payment products. We bring to the table an international, English-spoken, open and diverse working culture based on our core values: Be Loved, Be Bold, Be Authentic!

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a vital role in our team, working on the development of cutting-edge, user-friendly financial products and APIs used by tens of thousands of merchants on a daily basis. Our focus is on creating highly scalable solutions that can handle a high volume of payments per second throughout the day. Code quality and system scalability are of paramount importance, and we value forward-thinking experts who can contribute to building scalable systems.

In Milan, you'll be part of the Customer Monitoring domain, where we oversee all monitoring activities necessary for Mollie in managing credit, integrity, and fraud risks. Your role involves building technologies to detect malicious or insolvent merchants before they harm Mollie or our customers. It's crucial for Mollie to stay profitable and compliant with regulations like anti-money laundering. You'll work in a cross-functional team with engineers, Data and ML specialists, enhancing existing tools and developing new ones using monitoring algorithms based on streaming and machine learning. Together, we ensure Mollie's success in a dynamic environment.

What you will be doing:

• Building large scale systems tailored to manage Mollie's risk appetite with data-driven approaches and technologies

• Being part of cross-functional team that owns a dedicated problem space related to risk and customer monitoring

• Working closely with other software engineers , ML and Data specialists to craft solutions, build products, and iterate on existing tools.

• Designing and maintaining APIs, services and systems across Mollie’s engineering teams

• Putting your skills to the test, allowing yourself to grow and learn rapidly

What you'll bring

• An extensive background of developing large scale web applications

• Knowledge with PHP is preferable, other languages (like Java, Python, Go) are a plus

• A good understanding of Service Oriented Architecture patterns

• A professional background working with the public cloud (either GCP, AWS or Azure)

• A good grasp of building scalable systems

• Creative problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication skills and you have worked effectively with different stakeholders

Nice to haves:

• You have previously worked in a fast-paced environment

• Previous knowledge of Google Cloud Platform

• You know about event streaming and distributed systems

• You have migrated services between microservices and monoliths and understanding the practical tradeoffs of one architecture versus the other

• You have previously worked within the Payments or FinTech sector