Java Software Engineer II

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, focusing 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 will be doing

You will join one of our cross-functional teams containing developers, testers, a product owner and a scrum master. We use the SAFE framework so we get together as a team every 3 months to review requirements, design a solution, and commit to a plan to deliver it. With the support of the teams' principal engineer, you will pick-up challenging work from the plan that needs your proven software skills to deal with the more complex problems. As one of the team's authorised gating code-reviewers, you will support and pair with other engineers in the team to grow the team’s capabilities, and ensure we are shipping quality changes.

• Develop changes in Java and (PL)SQL to an ecommerce payments gateway operated by Worldpay/FIS.

• Review payment processing business processes, analyse production data, walk the Product code, and review payments-industry spec documents to scope and specify the work.

• Partner with the test engineers to help scope the test coverage and approach, and you may need to contribute to the automated integration and system tests.

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

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


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 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