Senior Software Engineer (AWS/Java/SQL)

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer

Product & Technology Development

Boston/Lowell, MA area

Are you ready to write your next chapter?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. With proven technology, we process the largest volume of payments in the world, driving the global economy every day. When you join Worldpay, you join a global community of experts and changemakers, working to reinvent an industry by constantly evolving how we work and making the way millions of people pay easier, every day.

What makes a Worldpayer? It’s simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions to be better every day, finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We’re dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we’re determined, always staying open – winning as one.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our ever evolving Product & Technology Development team to help us unleash the potential of every business.

Are you ready to make your mark? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.

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’ll own

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

Where you’ll own it

While we’re a large team of Worldpayers based in North America, we have collaborative spaces and regular opportunities to celebrate with each other in person. 

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 Kube