Senior Software Engineer

About Us 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 19 countries and continuing to expand globally, we’re proud to move more people through better payment experiences. About The Opportunity You’ll join a Product Engineering team working on Littlepay’s high‑performance transaction processing systems. At The Moment, This Role Is Focused On Designing, building, maintaining and operating features across our omni-channel payments platform.Collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, and business analysts to turn problems into safe, reliable releases.Owning outcomes end-to-end: understanding the problem, shaping the solution, shipping it safely, and improving it based on what we learn in production. What you will do in this role The specific focus of the role will evolve as we scale, but you can expect to: Work within clear domain boundaries and communicate design trade-offs.Champion best practices and continuous improvement within the team.Take full ownership of delivering applications that exceed customer expectations.Enjoy solving complex and interesting problems in an agile team settingCare about your team, help them grow through providing constructive feedbacks, coaching, and mentoringPartner with cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements, align on scope, and deliver customer value.Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, constructive feedback, and shared learning. Technology you will work with From a technology standpoint, you will work with tools such as:Java, Spring, Go, and Node.jsAWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, SQS, SAM, CloudFormation, S3, API Gateway)Open source tooling and modern engineering practices You Are Likely a Match If You Have 7+ years of software engineering experience, with strong backend fundamentals.Extensive experience in building micro-services and server-less architecturesProfessional experience with AWS cloud services and related toolsRESTful API experienceProfessional experience in CI/CD practicesAsynchronous event-driven systems experienceAn interest or experience in cryptographic algorithms and transaction securityHave proven ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environmentA willingness to plan, learn, fail, and try againGenuine curiosity, and a proactive and self-motivated approach to learningThe ability to comprehend, co-ordinate, and communicate clearly and effectively on a wide range of issues with colleagues, both technical and non-technicalExperience in mentoring junior engineers and contributing to team growth. Why join us? Innovative Environment: Engage in the development of industry-leading products within the transit space, solving everyday challenges and enhancing the customer experience through technology.Professional Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning and career advancement.Collaborative Culture: A supportive team that values collaboration, innovation, and excellence.Impactful Work: Play a key role in improving the transit and mobility experience for millions of users.Collaborative Workspace: 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. Benefits 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 Paid professional development (including conferences, courses, learning subscriptions, etc.)Superannuation contributions on all paid parental leave paymentsA company-wide paid day offA variety of flexible leave optionsOur flexible public holiday programFlexible (hybrid) working conditionsOur generous employee referral programWellbeing support- including a free School of Life subscription for all employees, and counselling via the School of Life or our EAP programMid-year, quarterly, and end-of-year corporate and team events and workshopsShort-term remote working arrangement 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 4 days 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.