Software Engineer - Java

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.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our ever-evolving Cambridge 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 

• You will be working on one of the largest-by-volume global payment platforms in the world, focusing intensively on robustness, security, and capacity. Our platform processes over 800 transactions every second and exceeds 10 million successful payments every day. 

• The Cambridge team is a diverse group passionate about building reliable payment solutions. We make Worldpay a success by collaborating on innovative technology, sharing knowledge, and delivering world-class payment services that meet the needs of millions globally. 

What you’ll own

• Join a cross-functional team of developers, testers, a product owner, and a scrum master, participating in quarterly planning and design sessions using the SAFe framework. 

• Pick up challenging development tasks from the team plan, leveraging your proven software skills to tackle complex issues, and partner with the principal engineer for guidance. 

• Serve as an authorized gating code reviewer, pairing with other engineers to grow the team’s capabilities and ensure quality code delivery. 

• Develop changes in Java, SQL, and PL/SQL for the ecommerce payments gateway operated by Worldpay.

• Review payment processing business processes, analyze production data, walk through product code, and interpret payments-industry spec documents to scope and specify work. 

• Collaborate with test engineers to scope test coverage and approach, contributing to automated integration and system tests as needed. 

• Design rollout and monitoring strategies for new features to ensure successful deployment, and periodically provide support outside normal office hours for release deployments.

What you bring 

• Experience delivering software in an industry where quality is critical. 

• Proven ability to solve complex business problems with software solutions. 

• Strong Java knowledge and expertise interacting with large databases. 

• Database systems experience, ideally with SQL-based Oracle or similar platforms. 

• Familiarity working with large code bases and version control systems. 

• Experience using Linux as both a development and production environment. 

Added bonus if you have 

• Knowledge of the financial services industry. 

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

• Experience with AWS cloud technologies and design patterns. 

• Understanding of enterprise compute, storage, and networking technologies.

What we offer you 

• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities. 

• Flexible office and home working arrangements, meeting face-to-face when valuable for collaboration and innovation. 

• Regular structured time for skill development, training, experimentation with new tech, and continuous improvement of our work processes. 

What makes a Worldpayer

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 and failing as one.

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Worldpayer. Apply now to write the next chapter in your career.

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