Backend Engineer; Java

It starts here. Have a global impact on the world of payments.

Paysafe is a leading payments platform with an extensive track record of serving merchants and consumers in the global entertainment sectors. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry-leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. With 29 years of online payment experience, an annualized transactional volume of $152 billion in 2024, and approximately 3,300 employees located in 12+ countries, Paysafe connects businesses and consumers across 260 payment types in 48 currencies around the world.

Delivered through an integrated platform, Paysafe solutions are geared toward mobile-initiated transactions, real-time analytics and the convergence between brick‑and‑mortar and online payments. Further information is available at

Paysafe is currently seeking a Backend Java Developer to join its IT Development team in London to help us enhance our applications supporting the Payment Processing products and services. The ideal candidate will be a fast learner and enjoy working independently or within a team. They must also be confident in all aspects of software delivery on large and small projects including build/test automation.

You’ll be part of one Agile team (out of nearly 50), consisting of several engineers; a team that has full ownership of their respective piece of code and functionality and is free to create its own rules that fit into a much bigger process. Our teams are working on some of our leading products, such as our Digital Wallets (Skrill & NETELLER), our Embedded Wallet solution, our Payment Gateway (Netbanx), Paysafecard, as well as various Risk and Compliance functionalities across the board.

• Being open and honest.
• Keeping focused
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• Operating with Courage
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• Pioneering the future.

Our values and culture are driven by Equality, Development, Social Responsibility and Wellbeing. If you want to find out more about life at Paysafe, check out our careers page here.

We follow a hybrid working model, spending an average of three days per week at our office location. The office is located in Gresham Street next to St Paul’s cathedral with easy access and transport links via St Paul’s, Bank, Cannon Street, City Thameslink, Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Mansion House.

• Follow Agile Methodology: daily scrums, grooming, planning, retrospectives and project meetings as required
• Liaise with Product Management, Dev Ops and other project teams as required to deliver high‑quality software solutions
• Work with the Product Management team to help in the gathering and documentation of requirements
• Ability to quickly ramp up and apply new technologies and processes
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and share best practices with the team
• Enjoy working in a highly collaborative & dynamic team environment
• Share knowledge, teach, or learn from some of the very best engineers in the industry
• Encouragement to enhance your skills, as we consider self‑improvement a crucial part of the job

• Software development experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Ecosystem (Boot, MVC, Batch, Security, Cloud)
• Basic knowledge in SQL (Oracle preferable)
• Experience with REST, especially with RESTful Services (JAX‑RS), Graph
  
  QL, JSON/XML, OpenAPI/Swagger
• Micro‑services and Event Driven architectures
• Has worked with Git, Gitlab/Bamboo/Bitbucket plugins
• Has worked with AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS), Azure, GCP fundamentals
• Basic knowledge of UNIX/Linux

• 3 to 5 years of software development experience
• University degree in Computer Science, Programming, or equivalent education
• Self‑learner and someone who is not afraid to embrace latest technologies
• Experience working in a diverse and multi‑location company
• Strong communication skills (oral, written and presentation)

When applying, please include a link to your Github account or other open source contributions (if applicable).

• Make your day work for you with our flexible working hours.
• You decide what your holiday looks…