About Us:
Planet is a leading technology company transforming payments by putting customer experience first. We offer integrated solutions that include payment processing, VAT refunds, dynamic currency conversion, and management services for merchants in the Retail and Hospitality sectors worldwide.
In recent years, we have experienced significant growth, expanding our services and global presence.
With strong private equity investors, Advent International and Eurazeo, we have the financial capital and expertise to grow our capabilities and reach through acquisitions.
Our mission is to create a world of connected commerce where payments are simple, secure, and seamless, enabling our partners to deliver exceptional experiences to their customers.
Role Overview
Reporting to the MAS Team Lead you will build new features and maintain the payments backend solution. Our payments backend ensures funds are delivered on time to merchants creating a seamless payment experience to the consumer. It is a mission critical system that must reliably process millions of transactions within short time boundaries.
What you will do
- Expand and maintain our core payments backend solution based on Java Sprint Framework and MySQL.
- Write unit and integration tests for the features you are building.
- Work with streaming, orchestration, and container technologies to build a high-throughput system that can fund merchants on-time.
Who you are:
- Experienced in taking ownership of tasks, commitments, quality, and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Self-motivated and detail-oriented team player with a desire to work on a team and mentor team members when necessary.
- Able to efficiently break down problems and leverage business resources to establish a clear path toward customer value despite the presence of ambiguity.
- Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as the ability to communicate intent to other developers through code.
- A solid foundation in software engineering – bachelor’s degree preferred with 3+ years of experience.
- Comfort in Linux/UNIX server environments
- Experience working with SQL databases such as MySQL.
- Advanced Java programming skills, knowledge in Spring Framework is a plus.
- Effective unit, integration, user acceptance testing using libraries like JUnit and Selenium
- Provide outstanding support, including on-call support when necessary.
- Experience with building CI pipelines
- Azure, AWS or other cloud platforms
- Container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Why Planet :
Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.
Come and grow your career in the most exciting, fast paced technology market, with a business that delivers feel-good connected commerce. We would love to hear from you – Apply now.
At Planet, we embrace a hybrid work model, with three days a week in the office.
Reasonable accommodations may be made in order to allow for an individual to perform the essential functions of this role successfully.
Top Skills
What We Do
Planet is a leading global provider of integrated technology and payments solutions for retail and hospitality customers.
We create great experiences for the millions of people who use our Payments, Software, and Tax Free solutions every minute of every day.
Planet empowers its customers to deliver amazing customer experiences by combining payments and technology in ways that drive greater loyalty, increase revenue and save time.
Founded over 35 years ago and with our headquarters in London, today we have more than 2,500 employees located across six continents serving our customers in over 120 markets
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