Job at a glance
Ready to take your career global? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for Software Engineer - Java to join our ever-evolving WPG team and help shape the future of global commerce. Whilst web development skills are crucial, a background payments and fintech would be extremely beneficial. What you’ll own You will be working on 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.
Design and develop solutions in Java, SQL, and PLSQL to ecommerce payments gateway as part of a team, in line with: The needs of a high-capacity mission-critical 24/7 service with 5 nines uptime Product specifications and drivers of business value Worldpay architectural and software engineering principles Department standards and practices e.g. code quality, agile ways of working, technical debt control Closely partner with the software and quality assurance engineers in the team through code reviews, knowledge sharing and mentoring Active collaboration with engineers in UK and US Active contribution to retrospectives, resolution of technical debt, and improvements to team and department working practices Periodic availability outside normal office hours for release support and deployment Working collaboratively along the whole SDLC – with colleagues in the team, solution designers, release team, support and the business to refine, release and run the software solutions What you’ll bring You will have the ability to build secure, clean and testable Java-based distributed applications in a Linux development environment You will have a firm grasp of relational database concepts (e.g.
Oracle), appreciation of architecture and knowledge of industry design patterns You will have a dynamic can-do attitude, with the ability to work collaboratively within a team to drive continuous improvement and being able to prioritise under pressure You will take pride in your work and encourage others to do the same Experience with large code bases and version control systems Experience with Linux as a development and production environment Skills in the following areas are considered essential: Java HTML CSS JavaScript REST APIs Spring Boot JBoss J2EE, JSP, Servlets, etc.
Gradle or Maven Databases (Oracle) DDL and SQL Basic Networking Git & GitHub Linux (bash, ksh, ssh, etc.) Experience in the following areas would be nice to have: C/C++ Payment technologies (APACS, IFSF, Google Pay etc.) Exposure to Angular, AlpineJS, Bootstrap Database tools: Toad, DBeaver, SQL Developer IDEs: VS Code, Eclipse, etc. Typescript TLS, PKI – certs etc. Keyfactor, Sectigo.
Apache config Containers (Docker, Podman, etc) Testing tools: Selenium, JUnit Data formats: XML, JSON, YAML AWS, Azure, Cloud etc. Login Authentication (SSO, MFA) CI/CD Pipelines Security scans, Snyk, Checkmarx, etc. It’s a bonus if you have knowledge of the following: A keen interest in innovation, using techniques like BDD, best-of-breed software engineering practices and tools, with an ability to communicate clearly their advantages with your peers, stakeholders and end users A keen interest in AI and ability to use any AI tool in your day-to-day job Some familiarity with agile frameworks and methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe), and knowledge of their various advantages and pitfalls Any experience of working in a global online business/knowledge of cryptography and secure inter-application communication principles/high availability, high capacity, mission-critical systems, etc.
About the team You will join one of our cross-functional teams containing developers, testers, scrum master, product owners and analysts. Each team has its own territory and backlog which it owns from kick-off to post-live. The teams follow agile practices which may be Scrum, Kanban or SAFe, adapted according to need. W