Senior Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer at Payter, you will play a crucial role in the company's growth by delivering key software solutions. Joining a small, close-knit team, you will engage in software development, collaborating closely with domain owners to deliver high quality, clean, testable code in line with standards, strategies, and best practices.

At Payter, we are innovators, pioneers, and leaders in the dynamic realm of unattended/self-service contactless and cashless payment technology in a wide range of markets such as Electrical Vehicle Charging, Transportation, Retail, Hospitality, Vending, Charity, Parking, and beyond. The adaptable Payter platform accommodates a diverse range of payment technologies (NFC, EMV, ApplePay, GooglePay, etc.), international banking processes, closed-loop payment and loyalty schemes and telemetry. Through continuous innovation and in-house development, we redefine how vendors connect with their customers, empowering them to boost revenue, enhance user experiences, and access real-time sales and performance data.

We support a broad range of technologies, from Contact & Contactless EMV, Mifare, WiFi, 5G, Bluetooth, Touch Screens and more. Our state‑of‑the‑art products have an extremely long service life, are of high quality, compliant with multiple international standards, boast great design, are user‑friendly for all, multifunctional, and easy to integrate.

Responsibilities:

• Working as part of a team to design, build, and deliver sustainable, scalable, reliable, and well‑tested software into secure cloud infrastructure by analysing requirements, writing code and unit tests that satisfy requirements, writing automated tests to verify requirements, writing supporting technical documentation, support the software you've built, embracing continuous improvements to ensure our products and services innovate and provide business value, championing, promoting, and demonstrating the organisation's values in all aspects/areas.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Understanding of security and development best practices
• Designed, developed, and consumed APIs
• Experience working with database technologies, both SQL and No‑SQL
• Hands on experience working with caching technologies
• Experience writing and maintaining unit, integration, E2E and regression tests and test suites
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of source control, branching strategies, merging, and software deployment tools
• Experience in microservice architectures and containerization
• Experience setting up, configuring, and deploying infrastructure using CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Experience working on high‑traffic distributed systems, with responsive applications
• Understanding of Agile methodologies

Technical skills:

• Languages: GO
• Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform
• Knowledge and understanding of centralised logging practices using Google Cloud Logging
• Experience with common Software Practices: GIT workflows, Build Pipelines, TDD, OOP, SOLID, and an understanding of when to apply common software patterns
• Background knowledge: Event Based Systems, Distributed Architecture, Microservices, Queuing Technologies, Containerisation

Soft Skills:

• Able to plan and organise your own time, balancing shifting priorities whilst delivering a first‑class service
• Have a passion for sharing your knowledge and experiences with others in the team
• Be committed to producing work that you and the rest of the team can take pride in
• Great problem‑solving skills, with the ability to articulate challenges clearly and concisely at all levels
• Excellent analytical thinking and a high level of attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What do we have to offer?

• Competitive compensation including a discretionary bonus based on business results
• Great benefits like 25 leave days plus extra monthly "wellbeing days", a travel allowance and an attractive pension plan
• We are great supporters of flexible working, but we need to align. If you’re based in the Netherlands you can work from our homely office in Rotterdam close to public transport with a free lunch, or hybrid/remote from home, and potentially work part time. Alternatively we’re also building our fully remote team in the UK.
• Thrive in a close‑knit environment valuing flexibility, work‑life balance, and mental well‑being; Join Payter and become part of an international scale‑up, shaping the future in a booming market where you can have impact and growth opportunities.

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