Software Engineer II - C++ Developer

PEOPLE DESCRIBE YOU AS

• Someone who just gets it. From system architecture to technical specifics, you see the big picture and how everything and everyone works together from start to finish.
• Passionate about quality and performance, while understanding the trade-off between time and perfection. People see you as innately curious with a desire to explore different approaches and apply them to new problems.
• The one everyone wants on their team. You simply bring out the best in other people.
• Others look at you as their future dream role which is sweet balance between solving technical challenges and helping others to solve their problems.

YOU CAN EXPECT TO

• Deliver high-quality large-scale applications that adhere to ever increasing demands of availability, reliability, security and performance that enable an optimal consumer experience as a strong individual contributor and/or mentor.
• Deliver card payment scheme interface solutions meeting the business requirements and national and international standards (eg Visa, Mastercard).
• Use your strong analytical skills to analyze specifications for card payment scheme interfaces and their periodic updates (mandates / compliance changes.
• Using the Authentic Product extension points implement those interfaces - adding business functionality and optional / regional features to the Product.
• Collaborate with technical architects to understand the functional and non-functional requirements needed for the right implementation of the feature set.
• During Product Increment planning represent those stakeholders to assist the teams and team POs to translate requirements into user features & stories that define the expected behavior of the system.
• Work with Professional Services and end customers as interface releases progress through UAT to Production.
• Define test cases, execute, and evolve the automated regression tests learning from Professional Services and end customers.
• Resolve defects detected during UAT providing project specific fixes to tight timescales,
• Be able to deliver in an accelerated environment.

Basic Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelors degree, preferably computer science or Engineering as a major.

4+ years experience working in the card payment space ideally covering acquiring, issuing and processor perspectives.

• Good understanding of ISO8583 message format, types, and scheme implementations of it.
• Good understanding of the business flows and processing of a payment switch
• Experience of implementing and delivering scheme mandate updates.
• Knowledge of Agile development practices (especially Scrum), methodologies and tools.
• Outstanding communication skills.
• Ability to understand and abstract complex systems from technical descriptions.
• Ability to thoroughly understand complex business and technical issues and influence decision making.
• Experience working on large products for external enterprise customers.

Preferred Experience

• Good understanding of ISO20022 message format
• Experience in Java technologies is quite desirable.
• Experience of containers and cloud deployment would be an advantage.
• Experience working on a high-volume transaction system.
• Experience with Product development and the deployment of Product across multiple institutions.