Senior Java Developer (Lead Engineer) - Core Applications Development with Spark Experience

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At Worldpay you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

About the team:

As a Lead Engineer on the Billing and Funding Team, you'll play a pivotal role in the Worldpay engineering organization by developing core versions of software applications purchased by our external clients. You will leverage your expertise in Java, Scala, and Spark to design and build scalable, high-performance solutions that meet the complex requirements of our financial services clients.

What you will be doing:

• Develop core versions of software applications for sale to external clients

• Identify client purchasing requirements and technical specifications through Product Management and/or client representatives

• Interact with engineering groups to assist in design changes to equipment and/or software

• Train and communicate with clients on systems application

What you bring:

• A strong Engineering background with experience in designing and building highly scalable, loosely coupled, event driven, distributed systems

• Expertise in writing web-applications, using Java, Scala and database persistence

• Capable of leading by example and establishing industry best practice across all functions of the team including software development, TDD/BDD, DevOps & cloud

• Experience of leading change and establishing engineering best practice in technical teams

• Demonstrated accountability for a production service having contributed to the service build

• Knowledgeable on BDD / TDD practices Design/Architecture

• Knowledgeable on Microservice Architecture

• Knowledgeable with current technology architectures and approaches such as Event Driven Design, Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing & CQRS Technical

Technical Skills (Must Have)

• ​Experience building enterprise applications using Java and Scala

• Proficiency in Structured Query Language (SQL)

• Experience with Apache ecosystem, including Spark and Hadoop.

• Knowledgeable on DevOps best practices, technologies and tools (Ansible, terraform)

Desired but not mandatory

• Kafka

• Experience of building web-applications in the cloud (AWS)

• Knowledge of Fargate, EKS, EC2, EMR