Senior Global Payments Platform Java Engineer — Hybrid, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Overview

Develop backend payment services and REST integrations that support cross-market payment acceptance. Improve system reliability and engineering quality while collaborating with product and merchant integration teams on payment capabilities.

Requirements

• More than four years of professional software engineering experience using modern continuous integration and quality engineering practices.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and recent practical Java or Kotlin development with Spring or Spring Boot.
• Hands-on design of REST APIs and backend microservices handling high-throughput distributed workloads.
• Experience with Kafka event streams and distributed storage such as Cassandra, Hazelcast, Oracle Coherence or comparable systems.
• Practical knowledge of public-cloud services such as GCP or AWS, including deployment and operational considerations.
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes and production container orchestration.
• Experience using operational monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic, StatsD, ELK, Datadog or Prometheus.
• Ability to own high-quality, tested software from initial architecture through production deployment.
• Direct payments gateway, acquiring, issuing, local payment method or card-network integration experience is preferred, not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend payment acceptance capabilities across markets.
• Build reliable REST services and integration components for payment products.
• Deliver scalable distributed microservices and event-driven data processing.
• Participate in system architecture reviews, testing and technical-debt reduction.
• Improve cloud deployment, monitoring and operational effectiveness.
• Work with payment product engineers and external integration stakeholders where required.

Conditions

• Full-time hybrid position in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with three office days weekly.