Java Software Engineer (Cambridge)

Ready to take your career global?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Software Engineer - Java to join our ever evolving Cambridge Tech team and help shape the future of global commerce.

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’ll 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.

It’s a 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.

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 makes a Globalpayer?

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.