Java Software Engineer Senior

Worldpay is an industry leading payments technology and solutions company with unique capabilities to power omni-commerce across the globe. Whether online, in store or mobile, you’ll find Worldpay at the heart of great commerce experiences in 146 countries and across 135 currencies. To learn more, visit worldpay.com or follow on LinkedIn, X, and Facebook.

Are you ready to unleash your full potential? Join today and work with people who are passionate about payments and chart Worldpay’s path to being the largest and most-loved payments company in the world.

About the team

Worldpay is an international leader, the biggest in the world, in payments processing technology servicing all types of businesses. You will be working on our worldwide payment gateway (WPG): one of the largest-by-volume global payment platforms in the world, focussing intensively on robustness, security, and capacity that can process over 800 transactions every second and exceeding 10 million successful payments every day.

With a large international 24/7 customer base, this role requires developers with high levels of diligence and an eye for detail. Our engineers conscientiously code, thoroughly test and reliably deliver the requirements of our always-on business. We operate within a collaborative Agile environment and aim to deliver effective solutions to the business and our customers using our evolving payment platform.

What you bring:

• Experience delivering software in an industry where precision is critical

• Experience delivering software to solve complex business problems

• Java knowledge, or a related OOP language

• OOP design patterns and SOLID development principles

• Ability to write code interacting effectively with large databases

• Database systems knowledge ideally SQL-based Oracle, or similar

• Experience with very large code bases and version control systems

• Experience with linux as a development and production environment


Added bonus if you have:

• Knowledge of financial services industry

• Familiarity with agile frameworks and methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe), and knowledge of their various advantages and pitfalls

• Experience with cloud technologies

• Knowledge of enterprise compute, storage, and networking technologies

What you will be doing

You will join one of our cross-functional teams containing developers, testers, product owners and a scrum master. As the senior engineer in the team, you will have a leading voice in all SDLC activities. You will draw on your extensive experience and technical knowledge to take the challenging analysis, design and coding problems. You’ll enjoy mentoring other engineers in the team, champion best practices, and pair with people to solve problems when required. You will work with fellow senior engineers from other teams in our Communities of Practice, to improve how we produce and deliver software.

• Write code to solve problems in Java and (PL)SQL on an ecommerce payments gateway operated by Worldpay/FIS.

• Work with product managers, system architects, and internal business teams to define system requirements.

• Write technical specifications based on conceptual design and requirements.

• Work with the product owner and scrum master to lead the team in work breakdown and estimation.

• Develop new features following the documented SDLC

• Design a rollout and monitoring approach for features to ensure it works as expected

• Ensure that the support and operations engineers have the knowledge and tools needed to deliver the service to our customers

• Periodic availability outside normal office hours for support of release deployment. Currently we release every few weeks and have a rota.

What we offer you

• Competitive salary and fantastic range of benefits – private health insurance including dental, meal vouchers, private pension, sport allowance, well-being programs

• A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities

• 26 vacation days per year and bank holidays replacement

• The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in the payment industry

• Medical subscription
• Dental subscription
• Medical insurance
• Life insurance
• Gym membership
• Private pension
• Trainings
• Courses
• Bookster subscription
• Remote work allowance / Utilities reimbursement
• Discount for company products / discount for services of partner companies
• Payment / Compensation for extra hours
• Extra days off
• Flexible work schedule
• Parties / company events
• Laptop
• Meal vouchers