Senior Software Developer

Company: PayByPhone
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Location: Liverpool
Job Description:

As an experienced Senior Software Developer, you’ll develop major components that power our consumer apps and global platform enabling over 17 million users to conveniently pay for parking.

Responsibilities

  • Leave your fingerprints on the design of products, architect our infrastructure, and improve technical documentation.
  • You are a go-to technical expert for other people in the organization, articulating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Work with your team to design and develop automated test suites and establish test plans.
  • Work with product management and client services to scope out work and define acceptance criteria.
  • Participate in code reviews to share expertise with the team, ensure code quality, and verify PCI compliance.
  • Where desired and appropriate, participate in mob‑ and pair‑programming sessions to distribute knowledge across the team and collaborate on finding solutions to complex problems.
  • Use and improve our automated CI/CD pipeline.
  • Provision and maintain cloud infrastructure for your team’s products.
  • Monitor the health and success of your team’s products through application and system metrics.
  • Own the success of the features and systems you and your team develop. This includes monitoring, investigating issues, and supporting the service during outages.
  • Mentor fellow team members, helping to grow new technical leaders.
  • Help improve development standards, tooling, and processes.
  • Participate in technical decision‑making within the team, taking a lead role where appropriate.
  • Provide on‑call, critical response on a rotational basis to support relevant PayByPhone development teams.
  • You must maintain a personal data plan to fulfill your responsibilities for on‑call support.

Required Qualifications

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

  • You’ve worked in or want to work in an agile environment using processes like Kanban or Scrum.
  • Experience with automated unit testing, and an interest in techniques such as TDD and BDD.
  • Excellent understanding of software engineering principles.
  • Keep up with new technologies and find ways to improve the status quo.

Technical / Hard Skills

App based role: Expert‑level ability to code in Flutter, React Native, specific role dependant.

Full Stack Back End role: Expert‑level ability to code in Java, Spring Boot and RESTful API development.

  • Experience with cloud platforms like AWS/Azure.

Other Skills

  • An excellent understanding of software engineering techniques.
  • Worked in an agile development environment using processes like Kanban or Scrum.
  • Experience with relational and non‑relational databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.
  • Experience with service‑oriented or microservices architecture using synchronous (REST) and asynchronous (event‑driven) integration.
  • Experience with refactoring.

Nice to have

  • Experience with React.
  • Experience with Docker, Terraform.
  • Familiarity with Domain Driven Design concepts.
  • Experience with production monitoring and observability.
  • You’re excited about building robust and extensible 24/7 back‑end services for a global market.

People Management Experience

  • Experience mentoring junior and intermediate developers.

Years of Experience

  • 5+ years’ experience designing and developing clean, maintainable software that stands up to real‑world users and production conditions.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.

We’re also committed to fostering a diverse and representative workforce and an inclusive environment where everyone is treated with respect and fairness. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment in our workplace or throughout our hiring process. Our hiring decisions are grounded in business needs, role requirements, and individual qualifications — ensuring we reflect the talent and communities we serve.

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Posted: April 21st, 2026