Software Engineer II – Java​/boot Engineer; Microservice Systems

Job Overview

This role requires U.S. citizenship or a Green Card and is located in the Greater Boston area. We are seeking a Software Engineer II on the A Team who will design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices and components of a monolithic payment processing platform.

• Design, develop, and test software for scalability, reliability, and data recovery on a high‑volume, high‑availability platform.
• Collaborate with Product, Platform, Merchant Services, and Support teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Use Agile techniques such as pair programming and test‑driven development to maximize productivity and quality.
• Deploy new features into production with zero platform downtime and no impact to current customers.
• Build domain expertise in e‑commerce payments and apply engineering expertise to develop new product features.
• Work in a "team focused" culture that emphasizes strong collaboration and communication.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, or a related discipline, or equivalent education and work experience.
• 5+ years of professional Java software engineering experience (internships excluded).
• Exceptional design, SQL, and Java programming skills.
• Ability to grasp high‑level business goals, derive requirements, and translate them into effective solutions.
• Ability to fluidly change context and priorities based on evolving business needs.
• Experience with microservices architecture, globally distributed services, and 24/7 support.
• Experience with RESTful API design and cloud technologies such as Kubernetes and Kafka.
• Proficiency with SQL, relational data modelling, and database schema design.
• Bonus: experience with monitoring, responsive, self‑healing, immutable platforms.
• Knowledge of scalability levers in high‑volume, low‑latency transactional systems.
• Experience working in AWS, Open Shift, and similar platforms.
• Experience with Ansible, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Harness, Synk, SonarQ, Cucumber, and Karate.
• Experience with Splunk, Sysdig, Ops Genie, Open Telemetry, Prometheus, JBehave, JGiven, Xmatters, Service Now.
• Development experience with unit testing frameworks such as JUnit and a preference for TDD.
• Pair programming experience and a willingness to experiment.

Annual salary range: $ – $ (actual determined by experience, skills, education, and location).

Worldpay is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here. If you are made a conditional offer of employment and will be working in the United States, you will be required to undergo a drug test.

In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies and requirements needed to successfully perform the position. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for individuals with qualified disabilities both during the hiring process, as well as to allow the individual to perform the essential functions of the job, if hired.