Java Software Engineer

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Job description

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Summary of This Role

Java Software Engineer, Platform and Product Engineering

As a member of the Platform and Product Engineering team you'll be part of a globally distributed engineering talent who are passionate about technology. We build a wide variety of solutions from automated infrastructure and cloud-based systems, to machine learning and user experiences for web, mobile and IoT. We're looking for engineers who want to join our team of designers, engineers, and architects to build large-scale cloud-based systems using latest technologies.

Everyday you'll do these kinds of things…

Collaborate with engineers across the Platform and Product Engineering team to create technical designs, develop, test, and solve complex problems that drive the solution from initial concept to production.

Contribute to our automated build, deploy, and test processes for each solution.

Bring in ideas and techniques to further improve the experience for our engineers.

Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end.

Transcend the traditional boundaries of Frontend and Backend, designing and delivering performant, maintainable, and scalable features.

Think in terms of components and systems while considering a holistic user experience.

Work in an engineering focused team that's composed of people with a wide range of skills.

Demo and showcase your work for colleagues and members of the team.

Conduct research on new and interesting technologies that help to progress our products and platforms

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business / Management Information Systems or related field
• Typically, minimum of 8 years - Professional Experience in Coding, Designing, Developing and Analyzing Data. Typically has a basic knowledge and use of one or more languages / technologies from the following but not limited to; two or more modern programming languages used in the enterprise, experience working with various APIs, external Services, experience with both relational and NoSQL Databases

Preferred Qualifications

Highly Preferred Qualifications (One or more of the below)

• Experience in migrating applications to cloud environments.
• Working experience in migrating legacy applications to Java, spring boot microservices
• Experience in building streaming products based on technologies like Kafka and Flink.
• Experience building high performance and high throughput computing platforms using Apache Spark.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications (e.g., well-designed APIs, mobile apps, data integrations, and/or large mobile web applications).
• Experience with modern web frameworks such as React.js, Redux, Webpack, Babel, Gulp, node.js.
• Hands-on experience in implementing scalable software platforms and DevOps driven automated solution
• Experience in building and/or contributing towards machine learning solutions for the business problems.
• What Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities?
• Certifications in Java, Node.js, AWS, Kubernetes, Spark, or similar areas
• Exposure to cloud environments and preferably AWS.
• Exposure to DevOps tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD.
• Experience with message-oriented-middleware, caching, and systems integration.
• Track record of pursuing self-directed side projects, research, or open-source projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, information technology or business information systems or related field.
• Full-stack experience in one or more of the following: Java, Spring, JavaScript, SQL, ReactJS, Redux, Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, and the confidence to easily pick up others.
• Experience with various database technologies including AWS databases, large scale SQL and NoSQL databases and design.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying secure, scalable services in the Cloud and SaaS environments.
• Deep understanding of software quality and what it takes to construct resilient and impactful solutions

What's it like to work in our Team?

Our Platform and Product Engineering team is a team of advanced technical experts in a variety of fields who work together to incubate new capabilities in a rapid, prototype-oriented environment that emphasizes "product over process". We're huge advocates of open source and as a member of the Platform and Product Engineering team, you'll not only create innovative user experiences, massive data sets and infrastructure at scale, but you'll also be working with a team of people who represent some of the best and brightest minds in payments. We have a growth culture that emphasizes learning and adoption of technologies that push the envelope. We have sessions designed each week to bring the team together to learn and discuss topics that are critical to our industry and the evolution of our systems. Add to that our open work environment that emphasizes collaboration across teams.

So, what will your first day look like? First off, you'll get a mac laptop and work with a mentor to pull the latest project from Git. Your assigned mentor is someone who stays with you throughout your first 90 days to help you gain familiarity with our teams, tools, and environment. After that, we'll have you meet with different members of the team and get to know their specialties, current projects, and nuances of the job. By the end of day one, you'll create and commit your first code push to git. We call this our "pilot push" and it promotes our culture of rapidly iterating and making progress.

Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department