Sr Associate Software Engineer(Java Backend Technologies)

Ready to take your career global?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for Software Engineer I (Java Backend Development) to join our ever-evolving Alternative Payment Methods teamand help shape the future of global commerce.

What you’ll own

• Design, implement, test, deploy, and run APM microservices and components.
• Contribute to component-level design: data models, APIs, SLAs/SLOs, and integration patterns (webhooks, polling, async messaging).
• Deliver new non-card payment integrations fast: build adapters/connectors, map provider APIs, handle webhooks, support local currencies and regulations.
• Work iteratively through provider sandboxes, certifications, and phased rollouts to speed launches.
• Join the on-call rota with guidance; follow runbooks and improve alerts, dashboards, and docs.
• Add metrics, logs, and traces to monitor integration health and success rates.
• Participate in code/design reviews; follow secure, performant, and reliable coding practices.
• Collaborate with product, QA, SRE, compliance, and regional teams to hit launch dates.
• Triage and fix bugs; do focused refactors and reduce technical debt within components.

What you’ll bring

• 2-4 years of software engineering experience (or equivalent).
• Proficient with Java, Spring Boot, and Docker.
• TDD is essential; Strong automated testing (unit, integration, contract)
• Understanding of distributed systems and integrations: idempotency, retries/backoff, timeouts, circuit breakers, partitioning, fault tolerance.
• Experience with CI/CD and release automation; GitHub-based workflows.
• Comfortable with Agile delivery and continuous improvement.
• Fluent in English (written and verbal).

Nice to have

• Kubernetes, AWS, or OpenShift.
• Kafka or other messaging systems.
• Payments/fintech experience (APMs, scheme integrations), knowledge of regional payment landscapes, PCI-DSS awareness.
• Observability tools (Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and feature flags.
• Experience with provider sandboxes, certification, and staged rollouts.

About the team

Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

What makes a Globalpayer?
Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.
Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer.

Apply now to take your career global.

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About Us

At Global Payments (NYSE : GPN), we empower simple, fast, secure payments for everyone. And to do that, we’ve built a complete, worldwide commerce ecosystem that delivers software and services at scale to millions of companies around the world—from ambitious startups to global enterprises.

Our team of 27,000 experts is dedicated to your success. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we're a Fortune 500® company and a member of the S&P 500 with worldwide reach spanning North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Wherever you are—or wherever you want to be—we’re there, ready to support you.

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