Hybrid Senior Software Engineer – Java, Payments experience

at Betfair Romania Development

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer – Java, Payments experience
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cluj Napoca, Romania

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer at Flutter developing scalable backend systems for payments with a focus on security. Involved in code reviews, improvements and collaborating with various teams on methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify insecure coding issues and plan remediation
• Make sure there is proper documentation for owned components
• Minimise manual processes through automation
• Suggest improvements to the methodology in use
• Be familiar with multiple software development methodologies and actively contribute to team and group meetings
• Be able to identify common concerns to encourage code reuse
• Software development, continuous improvement
• Work independently on tasks without assistance
• Think about multiple solutions when faced with a task; express pros and cons when choosing an approach
• Implement robust solutions that work under load and offer performance
• Analyse potential improvements on code
• Creatively reapply existing learnings to new areas
• Participating in code reviews
• Improve monitoring and alerting
• Assess the success of any changes made
• Practice a test-driven development work style
• Demonstrate a good understanding of how the components you own live and interact with other components in the Fullter UKI ecosystem
• Model most problems, while considering the impact on load capacity, system reliability and availability
• Proactively make use of reusability techniques (e.g. design patterns, library extraction, new component creation)

Requirements

• Experience in designing and building scalable backend systems, ideally in payments or financial services.
• Hands-on expertise integrating with third-party payment processors, gateways, and digital wallets.
• Strong understanding of payment flows, transaction lifecycles, and secure API integrations.
• Ability to drive end-to-end solutions, from architecture and implementation to production support.

Benefits

• Hybrid & remote working options
• €1,000 per year for self-development
• Company share scheme
• 25 days of annual leave per year
• 20 days per year to work abroad
• 5 personal days/year
• Flexible benefits: travel, sports, hobbies
• Extended health, dental and travel insurances
• Customized well-being programmes
• Career growth sessions
• Thousands of online courses through Udemy
• A variety of engaging office events