To further strengthen our core backend services, we are looking for a product-minded Senior Software Engineer (Java). At this level, your biggest shift is moving from owning your personal work to owning team outcomes, and from following paths to creating them. You will act as a true technical partner to the business, actively contributing to the product vision and shaping the roadmap of our systems.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Drive architectural decisions: Design features for high-availability and scale, aiming for appropriate complexity ("as simple as possible, but no simpler"). You will ensure monitoring, logging, and graceful degradation are built in from the start, never as afterthoughts.
- Steer delivery & planning: Protect the team's focus by prioritizing finishing work over starting new tasks, and explicitly weigh cost versus value to identify where small investments unlock the most business value.
- Connect tech to business: Explain technical trade-offs to stakeholders in the terms they care about most: cost, time, risk, and capability.
- Multiply your impact: Lift the skills of those around you by developing teammates, mentoring colleagues through detailed feedback, and sponsoring stretch assignments.
- Set the quality bar: Establish team standards for AI-augmented development to prevent quality erosion, and embed "security by design" and threat modeling into the team's daily workflows.
WHO YOU ARE
- You have 5+ years of experience building high-availability, high-transaction systems in production using Java and cloud-based solutions (preferably AWS).
- A technical product thinker: You naturally view problems from a business perspective, focusing on customer outcomes rather than over-engineering solutions for the sake of technical elegance.
- Comfortable in ambiguity: You do not wait for perfect clarity; you make timely decisions, define problems when they are unclear, and do not let uncertainty become paralysis.
- A boundary-spanning collaborator: You proactively cross team boundaries to solve problems, building relationships before they are urgently needed and navigating difficult conversations directly.
- Operationally driven: You have a veteran instinct for spotting systemic failure modes, catching subtle vulnerabilities, and identifying operational risks long before they impact availability.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in high-availability systems
- Experience with Java
- Experience with cloud-based solutions (preferably AWS)
What We Do
At Trustly, we envision a world in which online payments are fast, simple and secure for everyone — merchants, consumers and banks alike. One hundred years ago, cash was king. People got paid in cash, carried it in their wallets, and bought things with it at the local store. Payment was easy. Oh, how the times have changed. Today, our salaries are deposited straight into our bank accounts and we shop online, from merchants all around the world. So why is it so hard to pay straight from our bank accounts? For consumers, paying online should be as easy as sliding a bill across the counter. And accepting payments and issuing refunds should be the least of merchants’ worries. Credit cards, debit cards, e-wallets, invoices and cash-on-delivery are all middlemen levying fees, debt and interest for the simple task of moving money from one person to another. At Trustly, we work hard to make online payments easy.
Why Work With Us
At Trustly, we work hard to make online payments easy. We’re dynamic, not stuffy. We’ve got the drive and ambition of a startup and the experience and advantage of a scale-up, all wrapped up in one amazing team. The pace is fast, and change is frequent. We prioritize agility to adapt to whatever tomorrow brings.
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