Associate Lead Software Engineer

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Ready to take your career global?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our ever-evolving Engineering Platform – Merchant Experience team and help lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable, and high-performing global payment solutions through modern front-end experiences, robust Java backend services, and reliable data-driven systems.

What you’ll own

We are looking for a hands-on, technically strong Lead Software Engineer with deep experience in React-based front-end development, Java backend engineering, API development, and database-driven application design for our global payment processing platforms.

In this role, you will lead the design, build, testing, and support of full-stack solutions across responsive user interfaces, scalable Java services, RESTful APIs, and relational database layers. You will guide engineers, influence technical decisions, collaborate with product, architecture, QA, and platform teams, and ensure delivery of secure, reliable, maintainable, and high-performing applications.

What you’ll bring

Years of Experience: 8+ years of professional software development experience, including strong hands-on experience building enterprise web applications using React, Java backend technologies, APIs, and databases, with proven experience leading technical delivery.

Full-Stack Engineering Leadership: Strong ability to lead end-to-end feature design and delivery across React front-end components, Java backend services, API integrations, and database interactions while driving quality, scalability, performance, and engineering consistency.

Java Backend Expertise: Deep proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, microservices, object-oriented design, integration patterns, exception handling, logging, secure service development, and technical troubleshooting for complex distributed applications.