Senior Application Engineer

About the Position

Senior Application Engineer

Lisbon, Portugal

At Mollie, we’re on a mission to make payments and money management effortless for every business in Europe. Serving more than 250,000 businesses across the continent, we aim to cut through financial bureaucracy that hinders great ideas from growing. Our belief is that accepting payments, driving revenue, accessing capital, and managing money should be seamless for our merchants.

As a Senior Application Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of developing financial products that will shape the future of how businesses manage their finances. Along with expanding into new markets and handling an increasing volume of transactions, Mollie has recently introduced exciting new products to broaden our offering. You’ll have the opportunity to bring your ideas to life and contribute to these impactful projects.

Responsibilities

• Building Large-Scale Systems: Designing and engineering systems that can scale to handle high volumes of transactions.
• Developing Products Our Customers Love: Iterating from an idea to the final solution, shaping, building, testing, and measuring the performance of the features our customers love.
• Mentorship: Providing guidance and support to junior team members, fostering their growth through mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and hands-on collaboration.
• Tech Leadership: Leading technical initiatives from architecture design to implementation, ensuring engineering excellence.
• Problem-Solving: Utilising your creative problem-solving skills and analytical abilities to resolve complex issues and contribute to our mission of making financial processes effortless.
• Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Creating comprehensive documentation to facilitate domain knowledge sharing and set up optimised processes.
• Engineering Excellence: Owning the code quality and engineering excellence and best practices of our systems.

Requirements

• Always Be Shipping Mindset: It’s about consistently delivering value to customers, where speed and quality go hand in hand.
• 6+ years of experience in developing large-scale applications, preferably with PHP or Java. Experience with Go, C#, or Python is also valued but you are willing to work with PHP or Java.
• Proven experience in leading architectural decisions and technical initiatives, delivering end-to-end solutions, and optimising processes.
• Experience in mentoring junior developers and implementing strategies to drive team growth and skill development.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience working effectively with various stakeholders. Can explain complex problems and solutions in simple terms.
• Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to shape ideas with a product-first approach, as well as analyse and resolve complex issues.
• Ability to hold yourself accountable for your tasks, and show a willingness to proactively identify and improve things, whether technical or business related.

We Offer

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative fintech company.
• Be part of a team that is shaping the future of financial management for businesses.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

About the Company

Mollie is a leading fintech company in Europe, dedicated to making payments and money management effortless for businesses. With a mission to cut through financial bureaucracy, we serve over 250,000 businesses across the continent. Our innovative products, such as Mollie Capital and In-person payments, are designed to provide seamless, all-in-one payment solutions and money management platforms.