Senior Engineer

Mollie

Mollie

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Posted on Thursday, August 1, 2024

Your opportunity:

As a senior software engineer you will be working with us on creating cutting-edge, user-friendly financial products and APIs which are used by tens of thousands of merchants on a daily basis. You will be working on highly scalable solutions that have many payments per second at any point of the day. Code quality and system scalability are becoming increasingly important. Helping us build scalable systems by thinking ahead will be an important part of your work.

What you'll be doing:

  • Helping us to build large scale systems.

  • Work closely with engineers and products in order to build features at a large scale.

  • Design, build and maintain APIs, services and systems across Mollie’s engineering teams.

  • Analyse & solve complex problems across the stack.

  • You will put your skills to the test, allow yourself to grow and learn rapidly.

What you have:

  • A minimum of 6 years experience in developing large scale web applications.

  • Experience with PHP is preferable, other languages (like Go, Java, Python) are a plus.

  • Knowledge of modern queuing and caching systems like RabbitMQ, Redis.

  • Experience in leading and delivering technical initiatives including architecture design, engineering excellence and documentation for a structured way of domain knowledge sharing.

  • Can think from both engineering and product perspectives, and can effectively explain proposed improvements in a pragmatic manner.

  • Can lead several initiatives independently, managing end-to-end delivery, including less exciting tasks.

  • Experience in Service Oriented Architecture patterns.

  • Creative problem solving skills.

  • Excellent communication skills and experience working effectively with different stakeholders.

Nice to haves:

  • Experience in working in a fast paced environment

  • Experience working with Google Cloud Platform

  • Solid computer science background

  • Experience with event streaming (such as Kafka)