Senior C++ Developer

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.   We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. 

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other. 

Job Description

This is a great opportunity to join the Opayo Technology Team and be part of the exciting projects and engineering changes we make to ensure the Opayo payment processing gateway continues to be best in class. This high performing team ensures that all changes are implemented successfully across all the Opayo Face-to-Face Payment Gateways.

As a developer you will be embedded into a SCRUM team, working with business analysts and product owners to clarify business requirements for the team.  You will be a pivotal member of the team ensuring that deliverables have fulfilled all functional and non-functional requirements

You will be expected to learn the details of payment processing and collaborate with BAs and Testers to get the job done.  You should have an excellent eye for detail and confidence to hold experienced engineers to account when required.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and execute the evaluation of ideas, tools, technology, standards and best practice 

• Support innovation by acting as a sounding board for ideas and help bring them to life

• Actively engage in tracking and reducing technical debt

• Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with wider Opayo team

• Strong grasp of industry standards, best practices and design patterns 

• Be willing to adapt to significant changes in either technology or environment 

• Provide coaching and mentoring to technical staff

• Monitor operating efficiency of existing application systems. Proactively identify opportunities for improvement and recommends technical solutions.

• Demonstrate good understanding of the business needs driving the projects.

• Be an active participant in Agile ceremonies including daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint demo, backlog refinements etc.

• Assist other business area teams, monitoring and responding to inquiries and questions, tracking and logging calls relevant to development environment.

• Tech stack includes: Unit tests / Jenkins / clang / cmake / AWS / Multi-threaded transactional environment / HSMs / SSL / sockets / sessions / fortify / threadfix / python / powershell / Robot Framework / RDS / JIRA / Confluence / Bitbucket / etc…

Requirements:

• Strong desire to use technical knowledge and learn new systems and business processes

• Excellent C++ skills

• Analytical & troubleshooting skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Adaptability (work in an agile environment with fast-paced, high-pressure milestones)

• Comfortable with standard development tools such as GIT, IDEs, Confluence/Jira

• Experience with Windows Server 2012 R2 & Server 2019

• Database experience (SQL Server preferred)

• Ability to multi-task and test a number of projects in parallel

• Effective management of time and priorities to ensure commitments are met

• Self-motivated with the energy, drive and ambition to succeed

• Organised and methodical approach with good attention to detail

• Presentational skills including creating quality documentation/diagrams

• Good organization skills and ability to manage time and tasks with minimum supervision

• Readiness to work in regulated industry

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field; or equivalent and relevant work experience.

• Specific experience of testing technology solutions or products

• 7+ years proven development experience

• 2+ years proven experience working in an agile or scrum environment

• Self-starter: ability to review technical documents and work on own initiative.

• Good technical ability, proven in a previous role.

• Comfortable with security / cryptography concepts

• Basic understanding of networking concepts

Desirable Experience:

• Payment processing experience

• Experience with reasonably large interconnected, highly transactional, multi-threaded systems

• Experience using Pytest or similar Test Framework

• Experience with AWS

• Experience with other scripting languages like Python and PowerShell

• Experience with Elasticache / Redis

• Any exposure to PCI / P2PE audit processes.

The role offers a hybrid / flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.