Lead Software Engineer (Java)

Paysafe is a leading payments platform with an extensive track record of serving merchants and consumers in the global entertainment sectors. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry-leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. With 29 years of online payment experience, an annualized transactional volume of $152 billion in 2024, and approximately 3,000 employees located in 12+ countries, Paysafe connects businesses and consumers across 260 payment types in 48 currencies around the world. Delivered through an integrated platform, Paysafe solutions are geared toward mobile-initiated transactions, real-time analytics and the convergence between brick-and-mortar and online payments. Further information is available at www.paysafe.com. 

What to expect:

• Contribute to all phases of software development lifecycle – requirements clarification, architecture, development, testing and operations.
• Provide technical leadership to an agile team for clarity and guidance on technical implementation, architecture and removal of technical impediments.
• Advocate, teach and mentor the team for the best practices in coding, architecture, agile culture and software development.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects and other teams for clarification of requirements and technical execution.
• Contribute to the creation and execution of a technical roadmap.
• Be a role model for the company values and technical excellence.
• Freedom to make your own decisions and have your opinion heard in our ecosystem of core platform and hundreds of microservices.
• Being responsible for some of our most critical pieces of code, which process billions of Euro worth of transactions each year.
• Share knowledge and hold tech talks within the development community.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and share best practices with the team.
  
  
  

Team:

You'll be part of one Agile team (out of nearly 50), consisting of several engineers; a team that has full ownership of their respective piece of code and functionality and is free to create its own rules that fit into a much bigger process. Our teams are working on some of our leading products, such as our Digital Wallets (Skrill & NETELLER), our Embedded Wallet solution, our Payment Gateway (Netbanx), Paysafecard, as well as various Risk and Compliance functionalities across the board.

Your Profile:

• Advanced understanding of microservices architecture and software development
• Experience in guiding technical direction, and mentoring developers—without direct people management responsibilities.
• At least 7 years of experience with Java 17+
• Experience and knowledge with AI tooling is considered an advantage.
• Good understanding and experience with Spring framework and Kafka.
• Good knowledge of basic security concepts
• Desire to learn and to be challenged.
• Working command of the English language
• It would be an advantage if you have knowledge in any of the following - AWS/Kubernetes/Angular

We offer in return:

• The opportunity to write the history of a leading and growing multinational company
• Tailor-made training and ongoing development to help you enhance your skills in the field of online payments
• Multiple career progression opportunities in a dynamic in-house business
• Environment where product expertise, professional and personal commitment are rewarded
• Competitive remuneration and social benefits package (25 days annual paid leave, 4 days paid volunteering time a year through our Paysafe Giving initiative, health insurance, sports card, team events, company discounts, variety of soft skills, business and technical training programs)
• Fun and collaborative working atmosphere
• Flexible working model - we encourage our employees to embrace our flexible working approach. You will be expected to work from home and spend an average of three days a week at our Sofia office as part of our hybrid work model.

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Join our team that is inspired by a unified vision and propelled by passion.

Send your CV in English.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Paysafe provides equal employment opportunities to all employees, and applicants for employment, and prohibits discrimination of any type with regard to ethnicity, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other protected characteristics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of recruitment and employment.  If you need any reasonable adjustments please let us know.  We will be happy to help and look forward to hearing from you.