Java Software Engineer for Global Payments Platform

Global Payments Inc.; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments Inc. in Cambridge seeks a Software Engineer - Java to join our Cambridge Tech team and help shape the future of global commerce.

You will develop in Java, SQL, and PL/SQL for our ecommerce payments gateway and work in a SAFe-guided, cross-functional environment focused on reliability, security, and performance. Expect collaboration with QA, product, and release teams, with occasional after-hours support for deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering software in an industry where quality is critical.
• Ability to solve complex business problems with software.
• Strong Java knowledge and expertise interacting with large databases.
• Database systems experience, ideally with SQL-based Oracle or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with large codebases and version control systems.
• Experience using Linux as development/production environment.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Java

SQL

Linux

Software design

Tools

Oracle

Git

AWS

SAFe

Job description

Global Payments Inc. in Cambridge seeks a Software Engineer - Java to join our Cambridge Tech team and help shape the future of global commerce.

You will develop in Java, SQL, and PL/SQL for our ecommerce payments gateway and work in a SAFe-guided, cross-functional environment focused on reliability, security, and performance. Expect collaboration with QA, product, and release teams, with occasional after-hours support for deployments.