Technical Lead - Java, Spring Boot & React (Payments)

Worldpay; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Worldpay is seeking a Technical Lead to guide a team in developing and maintaining Hosted Payment Pages. The role involves hands-on coding, providing technical leadership, and collaborating across teams to deliver impactful innovation in payment processing. You'll thrive in a dynamic environment that values creativity, quality, and agile methods, driving improvements and mentoring engineers. Join us in London to make a mark in the fast-evolving payments industry!

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Parental leave policy

Global employee assistance program

Healthcare allowance

Company-funded life and income protection insurance

Employee Assistance Programs

Paid time off and public holidays

Monthly wellbeing allowance

Qualifications

• Experience with front-end technologies, such as React.
• Strong communication skills and fluent in English.
• Experience with mentoring engineers at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead a squad of Software Engineers and Quality Assurance Analysts.
• Collaboratively develop features and engineering capabilities for Hosted Payment Pages.
• Join the on-call rota to support the highly available products.

Skills

React

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

BDD frameworks

Agile Mindset

Communication Skills

Job description

Technical Lead - Java, Spring Boot & React (Payments)

Are you ready to write your next chapter?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. With proven technology, we process the largest volume of payments in the world, driving the global economy every day. When you join Worldpay, you join a global community of experts and changemakers, working to reinvent an industry by constantly evolving how we work and making the way millions of people pay easier, every day.

What makes a Worldpayer? It’s simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions to be better every day, 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 – winning and failing as one.

We’re looking for a Technical Lead to join our ever-evolving Hosted Payment Pages team to help us unleash the potential of every business.

Are you ready to make your mark? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.

About the team

Our Product and Technology teams are the Worldpayers behind the game-changing products and digital experiences we’re best known for. Striving for better, they never stand still — delivering impactful innovations that power transactions across the world.

Hosted Payment Pages is a talented, creative group working together to build and maintain the Worldpay Hosted Payment Pages. Our clients range from small and medium businesses to some of the world’s largest brands. We use global collaboration to support global clients.

Our group is a place where learning and growing are core parts of the journey. We care deeply about things like code quality, ownership, empowerment, automation, and agile ways of working. More information on our principles is available here: Access Worldpay Principles and about our APIs Access Worldpay API .

What you’ll own

Be the lead engineer of a squad of Software Engineers and Quality Assurance Analysts, providing technical leadership, hands on coding and QA of code, amongst other duties.

Liaise and support Product, Engineering and Architecture colleagues with technical designs, ideas and direction.

Collaboratively develop the features and engineering capabilities for Hosted Payment Pages. We aim to employ automation wherever necessary.

Collaborate in all stages of development from requirement discussions with the Product Owner to the deployment of the feature in the cloud.

Join the on-call rota to support the highly available products developed by the squad.

Collaborate with your fellow engineers from other squads to make decisions around technologies, patterns, and approaches to adopt.

Where you’ll own it

You’ll own it in our thriving, modern and vibrant City of London hub. Our sites are hubs of activity, conversation, and openness. With inspiring, stylish workspaces we want people to feel excited to come and do their best work.

What you bring

Experience with front-end technologies, such as React.

Experience building and operating large scale and highly available microservices deployed to the cloud.

Experience building microservices with containers, Spring Boot and Java.

Experience with unit testing and BDD frameworks, such as JUnit, Cucumber and Jest.

Strong communication skills and fluent in English.

An engineering skillset that is focused on quality, regardless of the activity.

Experience with mentoring engineers at all levels.

Experience with building team culture.

An agile mindset where you will drive both your squad and the wider tribe towards better ways of working.

You ask the right questions, listening and learning to get better every day.

You never stop learning, no matter how experienced you are. You create a culture where honesty and accountability are valued.

You simplify the complex. Always looking forward to creating a bigger impact for our colleagues and customers.

A bonus if you have

Experience of the Payments industry domain especially Cards and other payment schemes.

Experience of PCI-DSS.

Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and AWS

Experience with Kafka or any other messaging-oriented middleware

Worldpay perks - what we’ll bring for you

We know it’s bigger than just your career. It’s your life, and your world. That’s why we offer global benefits and programs to support you at every stage. Here’s a taste of what you can expect.

A competitive salary and benefits

Time to support charities and give back to your community

Parental leave policy

Global recognition platform

Virgin Pulse access

Global employee assistance program

What makes a Worldpayer

At Worldpay, we take our Values seriously, and we live them every day. Think like a customer, Act like an owner, and Win as a team.

Curious. Humble. Creative. We ask the right questions, listening and learning to get better every day. We simplify the complex and we’re always looking to create a bigger impact for our colleagues and customers.

Empowered. Accountable. Dynamic. We stay agile, using our initiative, taking calculated risks to progress. Never standing still, never settling, we work at pace to achieve our goals. We champion our ideas and stay flexible to make them happen. We know that every action adds up.

Determined. Inclusive. Open. Unlocking potential means working as one global community. Our work spans borders, and we stay united by our purpose. We collaborate, always encouraging others to perform at their best, welcoming new perspectives.

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.

Apply now to write the next chapter in your career. We can’t wait to hear from you.

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

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Privacy Statement

Worldpay is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how Worldpay protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice .

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.

Explore the benefits we offer to Worldpayers in the United Kingdom

We provide a healthcare allowance towards the costs of your health benefits, giving you the flexibility to choose the coverage you and your family needs across our medical, dental and healthcare cash plans. Our medical plan also includes a neurodiversity assessment pathway.

We offer access to a pension scheme with a company contribution of 9% of base salary if you contribute at least 3%. You can also own your personal finances through our Workplace ISA and GIA.

My Lifestyle

We offer Employee Assistance Programs to support through any changes that matter to you.

My Family

Our family inclusion network offers support for Worldpayers raising families and caring for family members.

We offer company-funded life and income protection insurance with the option to purchase additional insurances, including critical illness for you and your partner, life insurance for your partner, and personal travel insurance.

My Time Off

We offer paid time off and public holidays so you can rest, recharge and spend time on what matters most.

My Specialized Support

We offer company-funded annual Health Assessments. We also provide free access to a Virtual GP for you and your family, and full funding for female Worldpayers to access our Menopause Support Plan.

My Specialized Support

We provide a monthly wellbeing allowance for you to spend on anything that supports your physical and/or mental wellbeing.

Application steps

Here's where we'll learn a little about you, why you want to join Worldpay, and why you'd be a good addition to our team. You'll also need to upload your resume and a cover letter too.

Application Review

Once you’ve submitted your application, Worldpayers will review it and see if you’re a good match for the role, team and culture. If you’re successful, we'll invite you for an interview where we can get to know each other better.

Interview with a Worldpayer

This is the time where we get to know you better, and your opportunity to learn more about us. The best way to thrive is to bring your whole self to the conversation. We’ll ask about your skills and experiences, as well as your career aspirations. Depending on the role, you might have multiple interviews with various Worldpayers.

Offer and Onboarding

The exciting part! If you’re the best candidate, your recruiter will be in touch to confirm your offer. If you accept, we’ll walk you through the next steps of what you can expect during your background check and onboarding process to get you ready to become an official Worldpayer.

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