Take ownership of redesigning and improvement for core components within the Payments solution in Phorest, leading the design and implementation of resilient, scalable, and maintainable systems that support future product growth.
Tackle complex architectural and infrastructure challenges, helping to stabilise critical payment flows and prepare our systems for long-term reliability.
Make informed, pragmatic technical decisions with the autonomy to influence architectural direction and the technical roadmap for the team.
Champion and apply engineering best practices (clean code, testing, maintainability, observability) and support your team in doing the same through mentorship and collaboration.
Collaborate with product managers and designers to translate technical groundwork into product feature delivery, transitioning to a product-focused team once core technical challenges are addressed.
Keep a high bar for quality and craftsmanship in your day-to-day work, with strong attention to detail and pride in delivering robust solutions.
Stay curious and up-to-date with relevant technologies and the payments industry.

You have 5+ years of professional experience building backend systems in Java (plus other object-oriented language such as Kotlin is desirable), ideally in high-throughput or transactional domains.
You’ve worked in payments or similarly complex, high-volume industries, and you're comfortable operating in production environments where reliability and performance are critical.
You're experienced in designing and building distributed systems that communicate via RESTful and event-driven (e.g. Kafka) architectures, with an emphasis on fault tolerance and observability.
You take full ownership of your work, from design and implementation to deployment and production support, and you're comfortable shipping and monitoring your own code in production.
You have strong software craftsmanship: you care deeply about writing clean, maintainable code, follow best releasing practices, and advocate for sustainable engineering.
You have solid experience working with relational databases, and know how to optimise queries.
You’re familiar with AWS-based infrastructure.
You thrive in a product-led, agile environment, and you bring a collaborative mindset when working with cross-functional teams.
You want to be a technical leader who mentors others, raises the bar on quality and best practices, and brings people along with your ideas.
You're someone who challenges assumptions, speaks up with thoughtful opinions, and genuinely cares about building great systems that scale.

Your wellbeing is important to us
we provide private healthcare, 2 Wellness Days, an employee assistance program and a free online GP service.
As part of our Financial Wellbeing, we provide competitive Compensation, an Employee Share Purchase Scheme, Pension, Life Assurance, and Income Protection.
We help you travel by providing a bike to work scheme as well as tax saver transport tickets.
We support the women who work in Phorest by offering 2 weeks leave for Fertility Treatment, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause.
We care for your family and provide Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits.
We grow our own timber! We provide a great learning environment and extensive development opportunities. We run development programs and provide access to many online resources including LinkedIn learning.
Moving house? Phorest employees get 3 moving days.

Senior Software Engineer – Payments

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