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Global Payments · Onsite · CAMBRIDGE, , UNITED KINGDOM

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 Cambridge Tech team and help shape the future of global commerce.


What you’ll own

  • Join a cross-functional team of developers, testers, a product owner, and a scrum master, participating in quarterly planning and design sessions using the SAFe framework. 
  • Pick up challenging development tasks from the team plan, leveraging your proven software skills to tackle complex issues, and partner with the principal engineer for guidance. 
  • Serve as an authorized gating code reviewer, pairing with other engineers to grow the team’s capabilities and ensure quality code delivery. 
  • Develop changes in Java, SQL, and PL/SQL for the ecommerce payments gateway operated by Global Payments.
  • Review payment processing business processes, analyze production data, walk through product code, and interpret payments-industry spec documents to scope and specify work. 
  • Collaborate with test engineers to scope test coverage and approach, contributing to automated integration and system tests as needed. 
  • Design rollout and monitoring strategies for new features to ensure successful deployment, and periodically provide support outside normal office hours for release deployments.

What you'll bring 

  • Experience delivering software in an industry where quality is critical
  • Proven ability to solve complex business problems with software solutions
  • Strong Java knowledge and expertise interacting with large databases
  • Database systems experience, ideally with SQL-based Oracle or similar platforms
  • Familiarity working with large code bases and version control systems
  • Experience using Linux as both a development and production environment

It’s a bonus if you have

  • Knowledge of the financial services industry
  • Familiarity with agile frameworks and methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and their advantages and pitfalls 
  • Experience with AWS cloud technologies and design patterns
  • Understanding of enterprise compute, storage, and networking technologies

About the team 

  • You will be working on one of the largest-by-volume global payment platforms in the world, focusing intensively on robustness, security, and capacity. Our platform processes over 800 transactions every second and exceeds 10 million successful payments every day. 
  • The Cambridge team is a diverse group passionate about building reliable payment solutions. We make Worldpay a success by collaborating on innovative technology, sharing knowledge, and delivering world-class payment services that meet the needs of millions globally. 

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.


Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer. Apply now to take your career global.


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About Global Payments

At Global Payments (NYSE : GPN), we empower simple, fast, secure payments for everyone. And to do that, we’ve built a complete, worldwide commerce ecosystem that delivers software and services at scale to millions of companies around the world—from ambitious startups to global enterprises. Our team of 27,000 experts is dedicated to your success. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we're a Fortune 500® company and a member of the S&P 500 with worldwide reach spanning North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Wherever you are—or wherever you want to be—we’re there, ready to support you. For more information, visit company.globalpayments.com and follow Global Payments on X, LinkedIn

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