Software Engineer (Transit-CP team)

We’re Littlepay - a growing fintech headquartered in Melbourne with operations in the UK, EU, LATAM, USA, and Australia. Our payments platform enables our customers to pay for public transport using any payment card, mobile wallet, or wearable device. Processing over USD 1 billion a year in 13 countries and continuing to expand globally, we’re proud to move more people through better payment experiences.

Our Littlepay values:

• Trust and be trustworthy
• Embrace challenge
• Solve problems, together
• Deliver with speed and agility
• Be candid and kind

About the opportunity

Join our highly skilled Transit Card Present team, dedicated to build the next generation of APIs, transit workflows and payment solutions. Our collaborative and innovative team values open communication, continuous learning, and proactive problem-solving.

As a Mid Software Engineer, you will work closely with talented engineers, designers, and product managers. You will take ownership of new initiatives, help influence our technical direction, and contribute to a culture of excellence. Your work will have a real impact on enhancing the transit and mobility experience for our customers and partners.

Day to day, you'll:

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to communicate, design, plan, develop, and delivery high quality end results. Have a good understanding of business and domain boundaries and be able to identify and articulate design trade-offs.
• Champion best practices and continuous improvement within the team.
• Take end-to-end ownership for delivering expected outcomes, including but not limited to partner APIs for processing traveller taps, fare calculation processing, payment card scheme rules processing, payments management and etc that delight our customers and the business.
• Enjoy solving complex and interesting problems in an agile team setting.
• Care about your team, help them grow through providing constructive feedbacks, coaching, and mentoring.
• Maintain what we build.

From a technology standpoint, you'll work with:

• Java, Spring, and NodeJS micro-services
• Open source and AWS technologies (ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, SQS, SAM, CloudFormation, S3, APIGateway).

Ideally, you'll have:

• Professional experience in building micro-services and serverless architectures
• Professional experience with AWS cloud services and related tools
• Solid Java/Spring skills with a minimum of 3 years of experience across the stack
• RESTful API experience
• Asynchronous event-driven systems experience
• An interest or experience in cryptographic algorithms and transaction security
• Proven ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
• A willingness to learn, fail, and try again
• Genuine curiosity, and a proactive and self-motivated approach to learning
• The ability to comprehend, co-ordinate, and communicate clearly and effectively on a wide range of issues with colleagues, both technical and non-technical.

We love to look after our people. At Littlepay, you'll be part of an inclusive and diverse team that celebrates the differences and unique gifts we each bring to work.

You’ll have access to:

• Harrison Assessments - our talent management provider that facilitates continuous professional development
• Paid professional development (including conferences, courses, learning subscriptions, etc.)
• Superannuation contributions on all paid parental leave payments
• A company-wide paid day off
• A variety of flexible leave options
• Our flexible public holiday program
• Flexible (hybrid) working conditions
• Our generous employee referral program
• Wellbeing support- including a free School of Life subscription for all employees, and counselling via the School of Life or our EAP program
• Mid-year, quarterly, and end-of-year corporate and team events and workshops
• Short-term remote working arrangement
• Work in a high-trust environment with access to cloud collaboration tools such as Notion, Slack, Miro, Google Workspace, and Jira, which enables us to solve problems together efficiently.

In-office expectations

At Littlepay, we believe great work happens when we solve problems, together. We see in-person collaboration as an important way to build connections, share ideas, and support each other meaningfully.

For those assigned to an office location, we generally expect a minimum two-day presence in the office each week. This may vary depending on your role, team, and location. For example, our team in Luxembourg works 100% from the office, whereas our AU and UK teams currently work a minimum of 2 days onsite in our Melbourne/London offices. Some positions might require more frequent office attendance to support cross-functional collaboration, customer engagement, or specific team workflows. Your hiring manager will provide details relevant to your role.

We aim to strike a healthy balance between in-person connection and flexibility, while staying connected to deliver with speed and agility as we continue to scale, ensuring our ways of working support both our people and our shared ambition to move more people through better payment experiences.

Our recruitment process

If you’ve been shortlisted for the role, you’ll first have a chat with our Talent team, who will set up an interview if the stars align. A short workplace preferences questionnaire will also be sent to help us learn more about the way you prefer to work. Following a successful first interview, you’ll be sent a technical challenge to complete. If we like what we see, we’ll invite you to meet with a second set of Littlepay folks before being presented with an offer.

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process or if you require any accommodations for any stage in the interview process, please don’t hesitate to let us know. Additionally, if you don’t meet all of the criteria (we know that some underrepresented groups tend to avoid applying if they don’t), please still apply. We really enjoy meeting people who might bring a fresh perspective on a problem we need to solve!

Ultimately, being part of our small but mighty team means you'll have the opportunity to learn about micropayments, and have a hand in the provision of services that impact millions of people. You’ll help us deliver on our revolutionary product roadmap and help scale our platform as we continue to expand across the globe.

If this opportunity interests you, hit apply! We look forward to learning about you.

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