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. 

Staff Software Engineer

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. 

Our Company

Global Payments Integrated helps businesses succeed by delivering secure and personalized payment solutions, allowing developers of business management solutions to accept payments through their systems and add value to their software. While many processors offer payments tied to antiquated platforms designed to support stand-alone systems, the Global Payments Integrated platform provides custom, scalable, and fast payment solution integration – accommodating the swiftly-shifting ways consumers pay for goods and services. With this visionary payment processing platform, Global Payments Integrated helps business management software companies grow their business through our embedded commerce services, bolster customer loyalty with unique payments solutions, and improve profitability.

Your New Position

You, as a Staff Software Engineer are responsible for the design and development of our Payment Processing Gateway and other server-side products. You will develop utilising state-of-the-art software development techniques, including Behavioural Driven Development and Continuous Delivery.

You will be responsible for working in a variety of different situations and types of projects, ranging from a team of one to a team of many. Our working environment empowers software engineers and lets them focus on the technical challenges of solving problems, rather than dealing with bureaucracy or inefficient processes. As Staff Software Engineer you will be recognised as a strong technical expert and leader.  

 What you’ll be doing:  

Understanding merchant and partner needs, problems, and expectations and take action to address expectations through high quality, innovative solutions that deliver value to our customers

Inspiring your team as a technical leader – training, mentoring and motivating team members by setting an example as to how software development projects can be successfully executed

Improving the software development process, methodologies and tools through applied experience, automation and simplification – delivering better software, faster and cheaper!

Collaborating with team members to ensure that deliverables are technically accurate and useful in a timely manner – we build quality into all stages of the software lifecycle, with a focus on end-user observable (and testable) system behaviours

Identifying critical activities & tasks on projects, helping with estimation and planning, ensuring timely and accurate communication of status, resolving issues, and contributing beyond assigned tasks - adjusting priorities when appropriate

Assisting with software deployment activities to internal test environments and our production data center – the team are responsible from Requirements Analysis through to Release!

Being proactive, self-motivated, attentive to detail, with the ability to work well under pressure

Being a team player and role model, exhibiting a professional attitude, building work relationships, demonstrating flexibility and supporting workplace ethics.

What we need from you:

BSc or MSc or equivalent in Computer Science or related field or commercial experience of developing in C#, Java or any other OO programming language

Experience in server product development

An understanding of database design and development

Experience with Design Patterns, Refactoring, OO Design and related areas

Experience working in an Agile SCRUM, or Lean Kanban environment

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills

Experience of leading a team

Eligibility to work in the UK on a permanent and full-time basis

Experience in Web Services

 What like you to have (but we don't need):

Web client programming skills, including HTML, JavaScript, and CSS

Experience in asynchronous messaging systems.

Experience of Windows development on .Net

What’s in it for you 

Attractive Salary

Flexible working with the option to work from home 

Free car parking at the office

35 days holiday + option to buy extra days per year

Private Medical Insurance

Health Cash Plan 

Income protection

Life Insurance 

Group Personal Pension Plan (matched up to 5%)

Cycle To Work Scheme 

Office lunches 

Summer/Christmas Parties + social events throughout the year.

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. If you wish to request reasonable accommodations related to applying for employment or provide feedback about the accessibility of this website, please contact jobs@globalpay.com.