Senior Software Engineer

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London, Greater London, England
Senior level
Payments • Financial Services
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer at Boku, you will enhance payment operations, develop frontend UI and backend APIs, and mentor junior engineers.
Summary Generated by Built In

Boku Inc. (BOKU.L) is the leading global provider of local mobile-first payments solutions. Global brands including Amazon, DAZN, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Sony, Spotify, and Tencent rely on Boku to reach millions of new paying consumers who do not use credit cards with our purpose-built payment network of more than 300 local payment methods across 70+ countries. Every year, Boku processes over $10 billion in value for our customers. Incorporated in 2008, Boku is headquartered in London and San Francisco and has employees in over 39 countries around the world, including Brazil, China, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, and the UAE. Boku is a truly global company that takes pride in its diversity and thriving equal opportunity workplace.

Boku is looking for a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to join the Merchant Settlement engineering team, whose mission is to move money efficiently and reliably for our global merchants. As member of this team, you will play a critical role in enhancing Boku's capability to pay our merchants faster. You will be responsible for end-to-end development and support of our Payment Operations components to ensure we process money across multiple currencies and regulated entities with robust processes and systems. This is a hybrid position based in London, UK, and you will work in a squad of distributed Engineers, primarily based in London, with some remote.


What you will do:

  • Be highly motivated and maintain a positive, 'can-do' attitude in a fast moving environment.
  • Work hands-on with a highly skilled team of Engineers and stakeholder to ideate, build, and improve Boku payment products and features.
  • An ability to think through user's pain points and requirements and to come up with a simple, elegant solution.
  • Design, build, and enhance the frontend UI and backend APIs required for the products.
  • Own the products that you build, become the domain expert, and be actively involved in strategic direction and product decisions.
  • Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing and release.
  • Participate in production support when appropriate.
  • Mentors and coaches’ other engineers.
  • Sharing knowledge and drive Engineering best practices across the Engineering teams by giving brown bags, writing article, etc


About You:

  • Self-starter – You require little to no supervision.
  • Growth-minded – You are curious and enthusiastic to expand your skills.
  • Ownership–You are confident, driven, self-motivated and quickly take ownership of your work.
  • Product minded – You enjoy working with stakeholders on requirement discovery and building out new features.
  • Multiplier – You are passionate about sharing knowledge with others and growing junior team members.
  • Desire for impact - You are willing to take on more responsibilities as opportunities arise.


Requirements:

  • Substantial experience shipping high-quality products.
  • Strong software design and architecture skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with cross-functional teams: Product Management, Quality Assurance, Operational Support, etc
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to document and explain technical design, best practices, and integration guide to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Hands-on software development experience in Java (5+ years).
  • Hands-on software development experience in one or more modern JavaScript frameworks (AngularJS, React, Vue, etc).
  • Experience with event driven, asynchronous architecture.  
  • Experience integrating with third party web services across a variety of technologies, e.g. REST, SOAP, SMPP.
  • Experience with some (or all) of the following technologies/frameworks/tools: Maven, Git, MySQL, JMS, Spring, JPA/Hibernate, Jersey, Jetty, Kubernetes. 


Nice to have:

  • Experience building and maintaining applications in the cloud (AWS, GCP, etc).
  • Has worked or currently working in Payment industry or other regulated industry.
  • Experience working in a globally distributed environment.

Top Skills

Angularjs
AWS
GCP
Git
Java
Jersey
Jetty
Jms
Jpa/Hibernate
Kubernetes
Maven
MySQL
React
Spring
Vue
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
513 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Boku Inc. (BOKU.L) is the leading global provider of local mobile-first payments solutions. Global brands including Amazon, DAZN, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Sony, Spotify, and Tencent rely on Boku to reach millions of new paying consumers who do not use credit cards with our purpose-built payment network of more than 250 local payment methods that reach 7 billion accounts across 65 countries. Every year, Boku processes over $9 billion in value for our customers. Incorporated in 2008, Boku is headquartered in London and San Francisco and has employees in 29 countries around the world, including Brazil, China, Estonia, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Singapore, and the UAE.

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