Software Engineer - Java - Cambridge

Worldpay; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Worldpay in Cambridge is seeking a Software Engineer - Java to join our cross-functional team responsible for a high-volume ecommerce payments gateway. You will design, implement, test, and deploy Java/SQL features while aligning with payments industry standards and security requirements.

Collaborate with product owners and testers to ensure reliable, scalable solutions and participate in production deployments and occasional out-of-hours release support.

Qualifications

• Solid experience with Java and SQL (PL/SQL desirable).
• Track record delivering solutions to complex business problems.
• Experience applying secure software development practices.
• Experience with distributed systems technologies.
• Experience working in Linux-based development and production environments.

Responsibilities

• Join a cross-functional team and work on features for an ecommerce payments gateway.
• Develop changes in Java and SQL to the payments gateway.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to specify behaviours for new capabilities.
• Review payments industry specs and align them with Worldpay technologies.
• Support testing with automated component, integration and system tests.
• Assist in deploying capabilities to production and participate in release support.

Skills

Java

SQL

PL/SQL

Distributed systems

Linux

Security

Job description

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 WPG Engineering team and help shape the future of global commerce.

What You'll Own

You will join one of our cross-functional teams containing developers, testers, a product owner and a scrum master. The team works on features to maintain and add new capabilities to an ecommerce payments gateway operated by Worldpay.

• With the support of the teams' principle engineer, you will pick-up challenging work from the plan that needs your proven software skills to deal with the more complex problems
• Develop changes in Java and SQL and PLSQL to an ecommerce payments gateway operated by Worldpay.
• Work with the team's Product Owner to specify the detailed behaviours of new capabilities of the payments gateway. You'll need to review payments‑industry specification documents and translate how they apply for WorldPay's technologies and payments lifecycle processes.
• Partner with the team's test engineers to help scope the test coverage and approach, and you may need to contribute to writing automated component, integration and system tests.
• Support the deployment of new capabilities to production, ensuring they deliver value for our customers
• Participate in a release support rota, with occasional out-of-hours involvement
• Use generative AI tools as part of your workflow, supported by well-established internal tooling

What You'll Bring

• Solid experience with Java and SQL (PL/SQL desirable). Each career journey is different but likely you'll have a number of years' experience to reach a high level of a skill with these technologies.
• A track record of success to design and deliver solutions to complex business problems.
• Experience applying secure software development practices
• Experience with technologies used in distributed systems (e.g. IAM, digital certificates/PKI, observability, containerisation)
• Experience working in Linux-based development and production environments

Added Bonus If You Have

• Experience optimising performance for large-scale databases
• Experience in payments or financial services
• Experience working with SAST, SCA, CI tools
• Experience with Kafka

About The Team

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We are looking for a Software Engineer - Java to join our Cambridge-based delivery teams to work on one of the highest‑volume global payment platforms in the world.

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.

To find out more about working with us, find us on LinkedIn.