Senior 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. 

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. 

Are you an experienced software engineer with a passion for designing and building robust API solutions? We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our team and play a pivotal role in shaping our API and Microservices landscape. In this role, you'll 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.

As a Software Engineer, you'll be a key contributor across the entire software development lifecycle, from concept to deployment. Your responsibilities will include:

• API Design & Development: Develop & manage API proxies within the Apigee platform, ensuring security, scalability, performance, and seamless integration with various systems.

• Java & Spring Boot Microservices development: Develop Java & Spring boot based Microservices

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

• Collaborate with 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.

We're 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:

• 4 + 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.

• Bachelor's 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

As a Software Engineer, you'll be instrumental in tackling complex challenges, driving technical innovation, and mentoring junior team members. You'll 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.

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. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.

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