Software Engineer II - Java

Are you ready to write your next chapter?

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

You’ll be based in our Cambridge office, working on a hybrid model of three days per week onsite.

As a Java Developer, you’ll join one of our cross‑functional teams made up of developers, testers, a scrum master, product owners, and analysts. Each team owns its own territory and backlog end‑to‑end — from kick‑off through to post‑live support. We follow agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe), adapting them as needed. With continuous integration and delivery, we maintain a fast, tight feedback loop between product, development, testing, and end‑users, enabling rapid feature development for our global payments platform.

You’ll be working on one of the highest‑volume global payment platforms in the world, with a strong focus on robustness, security, and scalability - capable of processing over 800 transactions per second and more than 10 million successful payments every day.

What you will own:

• 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 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

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

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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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