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Senior Java Software Engineer - Worldpay
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Senior Java Software Engineer

Published 08.07.2025 | Expires 26.08.2025

Job description

Are you ready to write your next chapter?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Senior Java Software Engineer to join our ever evolving team and help us unleash the potential of every business.

What you’ll own as the Senior Java Software Engineer

You will be working on 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.

  • Design and develop solutions in Java, SQL, and PL/SQL 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

  • As the technical lead in the team, you will closely partner with the software and quality assurance engineers in the team promoting best practices

  • Coach the engineers in your team through code reviews, knowledge sharing, mentoring, etc

  • 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

  • Ability to deliver software to solve complex business problems

  • You will have a firm grasp of relational database concepts (e.g. Oracle), an appreciation of software architecture and strong 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 very large code bases and version control systems

  • Experience with Linux as a development and production environment

It’s a bonus if you have

  • 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

To learn more about our winning teams, check out our world-class teams that own it every day.

What makes a Worldpayer

What makes a Worldpayer? It’s simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions and 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 and 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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Sourcing Model

Recruitment at Worldpay works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. Worldpay does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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