Job Description
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
You will own it in our buzzing Burlington, MA hub on a hybrid basis. Hybrid is 2 days in the office. Candidates must be open and willing to relocate at their own expense to this office for consideration. While we are 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.
7+ years of relevant on the job experience in Software Engineering, not including internships.
Exceptional design and programming skills (Java strongly preferred, but we are open to other Object-Oriented languages) with the ability to solve architectural and system issues involving scalability, distributed systems, and relational databases
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
Worldpay perks - what we’ll bring for you
We know it’s bigger than just your career. It’s your life, and your world. That’s why we offer global benefits and programs to support you at every stage. Here’s a taste of what you can expect.
A competitive salary and benefits.
Time to support charities and give back to your community.
Parental leave policy.
Global recognition platform.
Virgin Pulse access.
Global employee assistance program.
What makes a Worldpayer
At Worldpay, we take our Values seriously, and we live them every day. Think like a customer, Act like an owner, and Win as a team.
Curious. Humble. Creative. We ask the right questions, listening and learning to get better every day. We simplify the complex and we’re always looking to create a bigger impact for our colleagues and customers.
Empowered. Accountable. Dynamic. We stay agile, using our initiative, taking calculated risks to progress. Never standing still, never settling, we work at pace to achieve our goals. We champion our ideas and stay flexible to make them happen. We know that every action adds up.
Determined. Inclusive. Open. Unlocking potential means working as one global community. Our work spans borders, and we stay united by our purpose. We collaborate, always encouraging others to perform at their best, welcoming new perspectives.
Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.
Apply now to write the next chapter in your career. We can’t wait to hear from you.
To find out more about working with us, find us on LinkedIn.
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