Senior Software Engineer - (Fintech, Payments)

About the Position

Senior Software Engineer - (Fintech, Payments)

As a Senior Software Engineer in our Fintech, Payments team, you'll build and scale the internal Payments engine that handles payments for the entire Delivery Hero. Your work keeps checkout reliable and payment failures low for customers across our markets.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deliver highly scalable software systems in complex, global environments used across more than 70 countries, applying secure coding practices throughout the development lifecycle
• Lead backend engineering efforts with a focus on distributed systems, using Java, Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot, Hibernate, and JUnit, and drive architectural decisions for your features with design patterns, SOLID principles, and Domain-Driven Design
• Own services end-to-end with a “you build it, you run it” mindset, including infrastructure automation and continuous deployment
• Define and apply testing strategies across unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end levels
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across multi-region, distributed microservices, and promote reliability, on-call, and observability best practices
• Mentor teammates and evangelize engineering best practices to continuously improve how the team builds and ships software

Requirements

• Proven experience designing and delivering software systems in complex business domains at global scale, within fintech or payments
• Deep backend engineering expertise, with a strong preference for distributed systems
• Hands-on expertise in Java, Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot, Hibernate, and JUnit
• A strong engineering ownership mindset with a passion for automation, CI/CD, and reliability
• Strong problem-solving skills and curiosity in approaching complex challenges
• A high bar for quality, performance, and attention to detail

Nice to Have

• Experience in payments, wallet, or anti-fraud domains
• Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka)
• Experience mentoring other engineers

We Offer

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week
• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service
• We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.
• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation & Gym.
• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan
• The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers and Food Vouchers.

About the Company

As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We push hard, learn quickly and stay human along the way. It’s this wonderful mix of high performance and real community that makes Delivery Hero a place where ambition and belonging grow side by side. If you’re curious, collaborative and ready to dive deep into meaningful work, you’ll fit right in.

We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you.

We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience-just let us know with an email to our Inclusion Officer at [email protected].

You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.

Ready to join our team? If you’re excited to grow, collaborate and be part of the world’s leading delivery platform, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today!