Technical Lead (Java)

Why Verifone

For more than 30 years Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone has one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and is one of the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide.

Verifone has a diverse, dynamic and fast paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in the fact that we work with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third party partners to invent and deliver innovative payments solution around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services, and are obsessed with customer happiness. Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next platform of secure payment systems or searching for new ways to bring electronic payments to new markets, the team at Verifone is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives each one of our employees for personal and professional success.

What's exciting about the role

The role is entrusted with collaborating on designing and building our next-gen service-oriented architecture, leading a low-latency messaging layer that processes millions of transactions daily. You will engage with global teams, innovate in IoT and Big Data, and ensure near 100% service quality while driving impactful projects across Verifone.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate, design and build our next-generation service-oriented architecture stack that will power a variety of services in our ecosystem.
• Lead design and implementation of our next-generation low latency, fault tolerant, high throughput messaging layer processing millions of transactions a day.
• Research, analyze and promote data standards to be used across Verifone.
• Responsible for the over-all development relating to user interaction, device communication, infrastructure, configuration, scalability, reliability, testing and performance.
• Excellent understanding of SDLC processes and automated tools, spanning requirements, issue management, defect tracking, source control, build automation, test automation and release management.
• Ability to lead SCRUM or Kanban software development frameworks.
• Build and maintain relationships with global teams and third parties on software development or support issues.
• Diagnoses software and systems failures using established procedures or by building new means of addressing customers’ technical issues.
• Collaborate with and/or lead cross-functional teams, build and launch applications and data platforms at scale, either for revenue generating or operational purposes.
• Document designs, code, issues and root causes after resolution of issues.
• Participate in design sessions and code reviews maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, always on a look out for new technologies and work with development team in bringing new technologies from the IOT, Big Data and device management space.
• Ensure quality of services are near 100% defect free and services work in production to support uptime SLA of each program.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience with Java in building/architecting solutions that are highly scalable clubbed with hard-working, collaborative, bright, creative, cooperative, and exceptional problem solver.
• More than 7 years of relevant experience in developing enterprise software and services with a graduate degree in Computer Science (preferred) or related experience.
• Minimum 5 years of Experience with technical leadership, defining visions/solutions and collaborating to see them to completion.
• More than 3 years of Experience with large scale distributed systems.
• Experience building high performance cloud-based systems.
• Experience designing and building a base service container architecture a plus.
• Solid understanding and working knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems, networking, and scaling techniques.
• Proven skills in performance tuning, monitoring and measuring.
• Experience with relevant open-source technologies such as Zookeeper, Kafka, Docker, Netty, Finagle, etc. a plus.
• Deep familiarity with many of the following: Distributed Systems, Databases, Data Processing, Streaming data, Microservices, API design, and Security.
• Command of Java, SQL, Pub-sub, REST, Javascript, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, JSON, XML.
• Experience with Mongo, Kafka, MQTT, Spark, Angular, Docker, Kubernetes, Akamai, Griddle, RDBMS, Elastic Search, CIAM, API Management Framework.
• Good understanding of CI/CD, Security and performance tuning and optimization.
• Technical problem-solving skills.
• Must be able to communicate complex issues in a crisp and concise fashion to multiple levels of management.
• GitHub or Bit Bucket and CI/CD with Jenkins & Deployment tool.
• Being a self-starter and results-oriented with a strong sense of ownership.
• Agile development experience.

Our commitment

Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.