Senior Software Engineer Java, React (All genders)

We the Payments tech team at Zooplus are looking for a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer to take a central role in shaping the technical vision and implementation of our end-to-end payment this role you will be the technical cornerstone of the team bridging the gap between complex business requirements and robust architectural solutions. You will collaborate closely with product owners and architects to build a resilient scalable payment infrastructure that ensures a seamless experience for millions of customers. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the design and implementation of highly scalable backend systems and services.
• Own key technical decisions and define the long-term architectural direction for the payments domain.
• Partner with frontend product and DevOps teams to deliver integrated end-to-end solutions.
• Set and maintain high standards for code quality system performance and maintainability.
• Act as a technical reference point for the team fostering growth through design discussions pairing and high-impact code reviews.
• Influence development best practices and help the team evolve its engineering maturity.
• Contribute directly to the codebase as a senior individual contributor while overseeing system-wide integrations. Champion DevOps practices focusing on CI/CD automation cloud scalability (AWS) and proactive monitoring.

Tech Stack:

• Backend: Java (Spring Boot) Data: Oracle PostgreSQL
• Frontend: React JavaScript
• Infrastructure: AWS Terraform Kubernetes Docker
• CI/CD & Monitoring: Jenkins Prometheus Kibana Grafana Git

Qualifications :

• 8 years in professional software development with a proven track record of taking technical responsibility for complex projects or subsystems.
• Deep expertise in the Java ecosystem (Java 17 and Spring Boot) including JVM internals and performance optimization.
• Strong experience in designing distributed microservices architectures that are scalable secure and fault-tolerant.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Kubernetes and Terraform with the ability to define infrastructure patterns for the team.
• Advanced knowledge of relational databases schema design and maintaining data integrity in distributed environments.
• A strong advocate for Clean Architecture TDD and BDD; experience defining comprehensive testing strategies.
• Ability to articulate complex technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills especially in articulating technical decisions.
• An strong drive for documentation and organization

Additional Information :

Headquartered in Munich with offices across Madrid Krakow Wroclaw London and Vienna we collaborate because we genuinely love working together - so youll be at the heart of an incredible multinational team. We trust each other to get the job done which means youll benefit from hybrid working spending 60% of your time in the office and 40% at home. Theres an option to work for 20 days abroad in approved countries too.  

Add to that development opportunities that help you to shape your own career path excellent training and support wellbeing offers subsidised transport or bike leasing plus 20% discount across all our products and youll begin to get a sense of what sets us apart. Find out more about the specific benefits at your local office in our blog posts. 

At zooplus we believe in equal opportunity and support everyone to fulfil their potential. We recognise the power of listening and learning from each other and embrace diversity and inclusion of all.  

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zooplus is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time