Staff Application Engineer

Requirements

• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong experience in Java and/or PHP designing, building, and scaling distributed systems
• Experience with event-driven architectures and migration trajectories
• Proven experience building platform foundations or shared frameworks that enable other teams
• Must have led/coordinated teams of engineers to deliver autonomously on large cross-functionally driven projects
• Strong understanding of testing, release safety, observability, and operational excellence
• Ability to influence across teams and domains, aligning engineering leaders around shared standards
• Track record of mentoring senior engineers and driving organization-wide technical change
• Experience operating in high-reliability or regulated environments (fintech experience is a plus)

What you'll be doing

• Owning Mollie’s architecture at the deepest level, ensuring long-term scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Setting the vision and strategy for a scalable architecture for the whole Business Banking domain, with long-term thinking and a pragmatic approach for an iterative implementation of it
• Driving technical strategic decisions in cross-functional teams and leading cross-cutting tech initiatives within the domain
• Defining the standards, patterns, and best practices that will allow Mollie to scale development across many teams without fragmentation
• Actively seeking out bottlenecks to our efficiency as a team, proposing and coordinating solutions that will enable the entire team to iterate faster
• Partnering with engineering leaders across domains to enable distributed feature ownership while maintaining a coherent platform
• Mentoring engineers and acting as a multiplier across the organization through coaching, design reviews, hands-on pair programming, PoC development, and technology scouting