Lead 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. 

Critical Quality

1. Good Knowledge of JAVA/JEE Design Patterns, Enterprise Integration Design Patterns ,SOA Design Patterns, MicroServices Design Pattern.

2. Experience of working on SOA Architecture, Micro-Services Architecture.

3. Experience of working on RestFull service, SOAP WebService.

4. Working on Agile development model and Automation Test driven development (TDD) methodologies.

5. Use container technology to build out an automated platform architecture that allows for seamless deployment between on-premise and external cloud environments

6. Leverage open technology such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bash, Javascript, Python, Git, Jenkins, Linux, HAProxy, AWS Cloud, ELK, Java, Kafka, MongoDB, Zookeeper, and AWS Amazon Web Service (EC2 Container Service, Cloud Formation, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling Group).

7. Integrate systems using a wide variety of protocols like REST, SOAP, MQ, TCP/IP, JSON and others

8. Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictable. You’ll do this by orchestrating environment deployment from OS all the way through the application layers of a solution, using tools such as Docker, Terraform, Jenkins and many others 9. Exhibit a deep understanding of server virtualization, networking and storage ensuring that the solution scales and performs with high availability and uptime

Key Skills required

DevOps tools: Redhat Linux (OS), Terraform, Docker, Docker-Kubernetes, Jenkins, Alpine Linux - container level OS.

Application Stack: Java 1.8, Spring 4.x -> Springboot, Spring data, SpringREST, Spring MVC, Spring-integration (i.e. no EJB :), Tomcat 8.5.x (embedded version), JUnit + spring-test (for automated tests), Mybatis (Object Relational Mapping), React.js (Web/UI Layer), Node.js (UI), React Native (for native mobile apps), Less (CSS preprocessor), Jest (automated UI testing), Kafka (realtime data pipeline) , Hystrix ( fault tolerance for high scale applications)

Understanding of: Amazon AWS - EC2, ECS, S3, ELK stack, Grafana, sensu, Git, Nexus, Sonar, HA-Proxy, Oracle Exadata.

Critical to Performance

Stability, Team Player, Good Communication skills, Results Orientation-High Customer Focus- High Fostering Relationships- High Effective Communicator- High Driving Change and Innovation-High

Responsibilities in the role

1. Collaborate with engineers across the Digital Innovation team to create technical designs, develop, test and solve complex problems that drive the solution from initial concept to production.

2. Contribute to our automated build, deploy and test processes for each solution.

3. Work in an iterative manner that fits well with the development practices and pace within the team.

4. Demo your work for colleagues and members of the business team.

5. Conduct research on new and interesting technologies that help to progress our products and platforms.

6. Create mechanisms/architectures that enable rapid recovery, repair and cleanup of faulty migrations with good understanding of fault tolerance and failure domains.

7. Identify opportunities to deliver self service capability for the most common infrastructure and application management tasks.

8. Create automated tests that easily plug into our automated code pipeline.

9. Provide deep and detailed levels of monitoring across all levels of the application.

10. Attend sessions where we eat pizza and talk about the latest technology.

11. Help mentor other engineers and technical analysts.

12. Plan sprints within your project team to keep yourself and the team moving forward.

13. Move fast, break things, and determine how to fix them.

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.