Software Engineer Specialist - Java, Apigee

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 1300 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.

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 1300 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.

Lead Software Engineer (Java Apigee)

Are you an experienced software engineer with a passion for designing and building robust API solutions Were looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our team and play a pivotal role in shaping our API and Microservices this role youll leverage your deep expertise in Apigee Java and related technologies to create secure scalable and high-performing applications that power our internal and external client solutions.

What Youll Do

As a Lead Software Engineer youll be a key contributor across the entire software development lifecycle from concept to deployment. Your responsibilities will include:

• API Design & Development: Lead the High-Level design of Apigee Proxies the development of Proxies and management of API proxies within the Apigee platform ensuring security scalability performance and seamless integration with various systems.

• Java & Spring Boot Microservices development: Lead the development of Java & Spring boot based Microservices

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide expert guidance and mentorship to other software engineers sharing your in-depth knowledge of coding design patterns and best practices.

• Review all pull requests to ensure development best practices are followed

• Collaborate with other team leads to create review and implement project designs

• Collaborate with business and technology teams to define API standards guidelines and best practices. Evaluate existing API infrastructure and recommend improvements to enhance our overall architecture.

• Quality & Compliance: Ensure adherence to API governance policies security standards (including PCI compliance) and best practices performing rigorous testing and validation of complex code.

• Strategic Impact: Advise leadership on application standards controls and monitoring to ensure compliance and data accuracy. Contribute to resource estimates and project planning for complex initiatives.

What Were Looking For

Were seeking a highly skilled and experienced individual with a strong background in Apigee and Java/Spring boot with a passion for building exceptional software.

Required Qualifications:

• 8 years of strong development experience with API Technologies (Like Apigee) and Java/Spring boot.

• Demonstrated expertise in the entire API lifecycle including planning design implementation security scaling performance troubleshooting and optimization.

• Strong understanding of API governance policies best practices and security standards.

• Proven experience in building RESTful and SOAP web services and integrating with external applications.

• Solid grasp of design patterns algorithms session management Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts data structures and collections.

• Experience with GIT and other version control systems

• Excellent analytical planning and organizational skills with the ability to manage competing demands effectively.

• Exceptional communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to collaborate across business and technology teams.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Business/Management Information Systems or a related field.

Highly Desired Skills & Experience:

• Familiarity with build tools (e.g. Maven Gradle).

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS Azure or GCP.

• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services like Pub/Sub Datastore BigQuery AppEngine Compute Engine Cloud SQL Memory Store Redis.

• Experience with other API Gateways (e.g. Datapower APIM).

• Experience as a Middleware developer using Java/J2EE technologies and message queues.

• Good knowledge of Relational Databases SQL and JDBC drivers.

• Experience with NoSQL databases.

• Experience in the Payments industry

• Experience using GenAI to increase software development efficiencies. For example experience using GenAI to help create and maintain unit testing functional testing code reviews and to generate documentation

Your Impact

As a Lead Software Engineer youll be instrumental in tackling complex challenges driving technical innovation and mentoring junior team members. Youll work on high-impact projects that require in-depth analysis and creative problem-solving close collaboration with engineering leadership and onshore development team.

Technical Environment & Tools

Our team works with a diverse set of technologies including:

• Databases: MySQL MS SQL Server Mongo/NoSQL.

• Back-end Technologies: Apigee Java Spring Boot

• Front-end Technologies: HTML JavaScript jQuery React

• Web Frameworks:

Development Tools:

• IntelliJ Idea

• Visual Studio

  • GitHub Copilot

• Jira

• Confluence

• Bitbucket

• Bamboo

• Splunk

Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

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