Software Engineer II - Monitoring

Software Engineer II - Monitoring

In its journey to become the most loved payment service provider in Europe, Mollie is continuously investing and growing its Engineering department. We recently successfully launched an Engineering Hub in Lisbon and we are set to replicate this journey in one of the most vibrant cities in Europe: Milan! Milan’s hub will contribute to Mollie’s mission with multiple passionate agile engineering teams that will innovate, build and contribute to our portfolio of next-generation payment products. We bring to the table an international, English-spoken, open and diverse working culture based on our core values: Be Loved, Be Bold, Be Authentic!

Our Monitoring teams oversee all monitoring activities necessary for Mollie in managing credit, integrity, and fraud risks. Your role involves building technologies to detect malicious or insolvent merchants before they harm Mollie or our customers. It's crucial for Mollie to stay profitable and compliant with regulations like anti-money laundering. You'll work in a cross-functional team with Engineers, Data and ML specialists, enhancing existing tools and developing new ones using monitoring algorithms based on streaming and machine learning. 

What you will be doing:

• Building solid foundations for our Java ecosystem

• Helping us to build large-scale services in Java

• Working closely with engineers and product to build features at a large scale

• Designing, developing, and maintaining APIs, services and systems across Mollie’s engineering teams

• Evaluating & solving complex problems across the stack

• Putting your skills to the test and allowing yourself to grow and learn rapidly

What you'll bring

• A minimum of 5 years experience in developing large-scale web applications

• Strong knowledge of Java is a must; other languages (like PHP, Go, Python) are a plus

• You know all about Service Oriented Architecture patterns

• Some professional grasp of working with the public cloud (either GCP, AWS or Azure)

• You have a background of building scalable systems around data-intensive applications

• Creative problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication skills and you've worked effectively with different stakeholders

Nice to haves:

• You have previously worked in a fast-paced environment

• Previous knowledge of Google Cloud Platform

• You like ML and experimented with it 

• You know about event streaming and distributed systems

• You have migrated services between microservices and monoliths and understanding the practical tradeoffs of one architecture versus the other

• You have previously worked within the Payments or FinTech sector

Kindly note that relocation support is not offered for candidates outside of Europe for this role.

Please apply to this job by sending over your CV in English.