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.

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.