Senior Application Engineer

The role

You will design and engineer large-scale systems to handle high transaction volumes. You will develop products, lead technical initiatives, and mentor junior team members.

What you will do

• Designing and engineering systems that can scale to handle high volumes of transactions.
• Iterating from an idea to the final solution, shaping, building, testing, and measuring performance.
• Providing guidance and support to junior team members through mentoring and collaboration.
• Leading technical initiatives from architecture design to implementation.
• Utilising creative problem-solving and analytical abilities to resolve complex issues.
• Creating comprehensive documentation to facilitate domain knowledge sharing.
• Owning the code quality and engineering excellence and best practices of systems.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in developing large-scale applications.
• Willingness to work with PHP or Java.
• Proven experience in leading architectural decisions and technical initiatives.
• Experience in mentoring junior developers and implementing strategies to drive team growth.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience working effectively with various stakeholders.
• Ability to explain complex problems and solutions in simple terms.
• Creative problem-solving skills.
• Ability to shape ideas with a product-first approach.
• Ability to analyse and resolve complex issues.
• Ability to hold yourself accountable for your tasks.
• Willingness to proactively identify and improve things, whether technical or business related.

Nice to have

• Experience with PHP or Java
• Experience with Go, C#, or Python

About the company

Mollie aims to make payments and money management effortless for every business in Europe. They serve more than 250,000 businesses across the continent.