Senior C++ Developer
This is a great opportunity to join the Opayo Technology Team and be part of the exciting projects and engineering changes we make to ensure the Opayo payment processing gateway continues to be best in class. This high performing team ensures that all changes are implemented successfully across all the Opayo Face-to-Face Payment Gateways.
As a developer you will be embedded into a SCRUM team, working with business analysts and product owners to clarify business requirements for the team. You will be a pivotal member of the team ensuring that deliverables have fulfilled all functional and non-functional requirements
You will be expected to learn the details of payment processing and collaborate with BAs and Testers to get the job done. You should have an excellent eye for detail and confidence to hold experienced engineers to account when required.
Responsibilities:
Lead and execute the evaluation of ideas, tools, technology, standards and best practice
Support innovation by acting as a sounding board for ideas and help bring them to life
Actively engage in tracking and reducing technical debt
Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with wider Opayo team
Strong grasp of industry standards, best practices and design patterns
Be willing to adapt to significant changes in either technology or environment
Provide coaching and mentoring to technical staff
Monitor operating efficiency of existing application systems. Proactively identify opportunities for improvement and recommends technical solutions.
Demonstrate good understanding of the business needs driving the projects.
Be an active participant in Agile ceremonies including daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint demo, backlog refinements etc.
Assist other business area teams, monitoring and responding to inquiries and questions, tracking and logging calls relevant to development environment.
Tech stack includes: Unit tests / Jenkins / clang / cmake / AWS / Multi-threaded transactional environment / HSMs / SSL / sockets / sessions / fortify / threadfix / python / powershell / Robot Framework / RDS / JIRA / Confluence / Bitbucket / etc…
Strong desire to use technical knowledge and learn new systems and business processes
Excellent C++ skills
Analytical & troubleshooting skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Adaptability (work in an agile environment with fast-paced, high-pressure milestones)
Comfortable with standard development tools such as GIT, IDEs, Confluence/Jira
Experience with Windows Server 2012 R2 & Server 2019
Database experience (SQL Server preferred)
Ability to multi-task and test a number of projects in parallel
Effective management of time and priorities to ensure commitments are met
Self-motivated with the energy, drive and ambition to succeed
Organised and methodical approach with good attention to detail
Presentational skills including creating quality documentation/diagrams
Good organization skills and ability to manage time and tasks with minimum supervision
Readiness to work in regulated industry
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field; or equivalent and relevant work experience.
Specific experience of testing technology solutions or products
7+ years proven development experience
2+ years proven experience working in an agile or scrum environment
Self-starter: ability to review technical documents and work on own initiative.
Good technical ability, proven in a previous role.
Comfortable with security / cryptography concepts
Basic understanding of networking concepts
Desirable Experience:
Payment processing experience
Experience with reasonably large interconnected, highly transactional, multi-threaded systems
Experience using RobotFramework, Pytest or similar Test Framework
Experience with AWS
Experience with other scripting languages like Python and PowerShell
Experience with Terraform
Experience with Elasticache / Redis
Any exposure to PCI / P2PE audit processes.
We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.
