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Staff Software Engineer

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In-Office
Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, GBR
Senior level
In-Office
Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, GBR
Senior level
As a Staff Software Engineer, lead a team to develop and maintain the Merchantware platform for payment transactions while ensuring compliance with security standards and delivering high uptime.
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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. 

Global Payments (NYSE: GPN) is a leading payment technology and software company that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes worldwide. We help businesses grow with confidence by delivering innovative solutions that enable seamless payment acceptance, smarter operations and exceptional client experiences – online, in store and everywhere in between. With its global reach, local expertise and scale, Global Payments manages trillions in payments volume and billions of transactions across more than 175 countries. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Global Payments is a Fortune 500® company and a member of the S&P 500. Across our family of brands, we're delivering technology, innovation and expertise for our customers - every day. It’s our job to keep commerce moving, and if you're up for the challenge, it could be yours too.

The Role: The Merchantware and Semi-integrated platform is developed and maintained by our Belfast team. The platform is responsible for handling millions of card payments transactions daily for our customers who range from small businesses up to 70,000-seater NFL stadiums. Throughput and resilience are paramount to sustaining our 100% uptime. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Merchantware Gateway you will lead a team of software engineers of varying levels to deliver features from our product roadmap. You will develop using both front and/or back-end programming languages within multiple platforms as needed in collaboration with business and technology teams for internal and external client software solutions.

Key responsibilities:

- Provide broad and in-depth knowledge of analysis, modification, and development of complex code/unit testing in order to develop concise application documentation

- Perform and advise on testing, validation requirements, and corrective measures for complex code deficiencies and provide systemic proposals

- Apply a full understanding and in-depth knowledge of procedures, methodology and application standards to include Payment Card Industry (PCI) security compliance

- Provide estimates on complex initiatives, projects, and issues - Assist with software deployment activities to internal test environments and our production data center

- Identify problems, issues, collect and integrate information from a variety of sources to establish a course of action and communicate the issue and solutions clearly and concisely

- Contribute to project success by providing ideas, strategies, improving communication among team members and executing decisions

- Assist with on-the-job training and provide in-depth expertise and advice to software engineers

Position Requirements:

- Degree in Computer Science or a similar

- 6+ years of software development experience

- Experience with server side development in a Windows .NET environment (.NET, C#)

- Experience designing and implementing scalable Web service solutions

- Experience with relational databases (SQL Server or related)

- Experience working in a CI/CD environment (e.g. Bamboo, Jenkins, GitLab) - Experience with test automation (Unit tests, BDD/Specflow)

- Experience with design patterns, refactoring, OO design and related areas - Demonstrate functional comprehension of software design principles, including coupling/cohesion, decomposition/modularity, encapsulation/information hiding, and separation of interface and implementation

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills

- Proven ability to work as part of a team

- Excellent communication skills

- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum, or Lean/Kanban environment

-Must reside in NI / commuting distance to Belfast and be eligible to work in the UK on a permanent and full-time basis

Preferred:

- Knowledge of payment processing, PCI standards, software usability, software architecture, systems administration and information security

- Experience with UI technologies, HTML, CSS.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary

- Remote-first flexible working from our new office in the heart of Belfast city centre or remotely - wherever suits you best

- 26 days leave (plus Bank holidays) increasing with length of service

- Medical insurance

- Dental insurance

- Life insurance / income protection / critical illness

- 5% to 8% matching pension contributions and Salary Sacrifice

- 26 weeks company paid maternity leave

- Cycle to work scheme

- Electric car scheme

- Stock purchase plan

- Twice annual Worldwide Days of Service

- Company social events

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 [email protected].

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Bamboo
C#
Ci/Cd
CSS
Gitlab
HTML
Jenkins
SQL Server

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