Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Global Payments Inc. • Cincinnati, OH

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer joins the Express team at Global Payments to help shape global commerce. This hybrid position requires working three days per week in the Cincinnati, Ohio, or Denver, Colorado offices and is not eligible for remote work. The role is not eligible for visa sponsorship; candidates must be U.S. citizens or valid Green Card holders.

The engineer leads technical designs and delivers high-quality features and services through investigation, code analysis, design, development, testing, and release. They collaborate across product management, architecture, DevOps, and Agile Release Train teams; investigate live-system issues; mentor junior team members; and participate in SAFe/Agile ceremonies. The role also evaluates architectural decisions for security, availability, performance, maintainability, and scalability, and works with product managers or users to define system requirements and modifications.

The position calls for a seasoned software professional with experience in enterprise system architecture and design, cloud platforms, distributed applications, microservices, APIs, and containerized workloads. The posted annual salary range is $0.0–$0.00; the actual starting salary depends on experience, job-related skills, education or training, and work location.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• At least 7 years of experience delivering software solutions.
• At least 4 years of experience in system architecture and design for scalable enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka.
• Experience deploying and managing distributed applications and services on Azure cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of Agile software development methodologies and best practices.
• Experience designing and developing cloud-based solutions on Azure and AWS, including microservices architecture and API development using .NET 6+.
• Expertise in developing cloud strategies aligned with business objectives, leveraging Azure and hybrid cloud environments, and managing containerized workloads with Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or valid Green Card holder; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice To Haves

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent technical design, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
• Self-direction and the ability to deliver on ambiguous technical challenges with incomplete data.
• Ability to lead in-depth engineering discussions about strategies to improve Azure Data Services and own the input end to end.
• Prior experience leading cloud migration projects within a highly regulated industry.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical designs for new features and services, including investigation and code analysis, and contribute to design, development, testing, and release.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Agile Release Train members, architects, DevOps, and other teams to identify solutions within system constraints.
• Assist in investigating live-system issues and propose solutions that address root causes.
• Mentor junior team members.
• Attend SAFe/Agile-related ceremonies.
• Assess architectural direction for security, availability, performance, maintainability, and scalability impacts.
• Work with product managers and/or users to define system requirements and necessary modifications.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior