Senior Software Developer
Verifone
Software Engineering
England, UK
Posted on Mar 6, 2026
Why Verifone
For more than 40 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.
Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located. Currently, we do allow a hybrid work schedule but we regularly revisit our attendance policy.
About The Role
We are seeking a Senior Developer based in London to design, build, and operate backend services for our global payment gateway system. You will develop high‑performance, secure microservices using Java and Spring Boot, collaborate closely with platform, product, and infrastructure teams, and help ensure our systems scale reliably across regions and partners.
This role is part of Verifone’s global payment gateway platform, where engineering decisions directly impact the reliability, security, and performance of high‑volume financial transactions worldwide. You will work on backend services that sit at the core of payment processing, balancing scalability, data consistency, and security in a highly regulated environment.
The role is ideal for a senior backend developer who enjoys working on complex distributed systems, modern Java platforms, and cloud‑native architectures, and who takes ownership of systems that must perform reliably under real‑world load.
Required Skills And Experience Needed
Programming Languages
Payments & Domain Experience
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.
For more than 40 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.
Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located. Currently, we do allow a hybrid work schedule but we regularly revisit our attendance policy.
About The Role
We are seeking a Senior Developer based in London to design, build, and operate backend services for our global payment gateway system. You will develop high‑performance, secure microservices using Java and Spring Boot, collaborate closely with platform, product, and infrastructure teams, and help ensure our systems scale reliably across regions and partners.
This role is part of Verifone’s global payment gateway platform, where engineering decisions directly impact the reliability, security, and performance of high‑volume financial transactions worldwide. You will work on backend services that sit at the core of payment processing, balancing scalability, data consistency, and security in a highly regulated environment.
The role is ideal for a senior backend developer who enjoys working on complex distributed systems, modern Java platforms, and cloud‑native architectures, and who takes ownership of systems that must perform reliably under real‑world load.
Required Skills And Experience Needed
Programming Languages
- Java 17 or higher
- Spring Boot
- Spring Web (REST APIs)
- Spring Data
- Spring Security with JWT / OAuth2
- Microservice‑based architectures
- Clean code practices and SOLID principles
- Experience designing scalable, fault‑tolerant backend services
- Strong understanding of security, authentication flows, and data protection
- RESTful API design using JSON and HTTP standards
- API versioning strategies
- MongoDB / NoSQL experience, including:
- Data modeling
- Indexing strategies
- Performance tuning
- Experience with Java concurrency, streams, and performance optimization
- AWS services including EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS and/or DynamoDB, and CloudWatch
- Docker and containerized deployments
- CI/CD pipelines and Git‑based workflows
- Unit and integration testing using JUnit and Mockito
- Strong focus on testability, quality, and maintainability
- Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments
Payments & Domain Experience
- Background in fintech or payments
- Experience handling transactions, payment flows, and financial data
- Understanding of high‑availability, security, and data consistency trade‑offs
- Exposure to event‑driven architectures
- Messaging or streaming technologies such as:
- Kafka
- AWS SQS
- Similar eventing systems
- Advanced experience with AWS, Docker, and CI/CD practices
- Production experience operating distributed systems at scale
- Strong ownership mindset for services running in production
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.