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title: 'Senior Application Engineer at Mollie'
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# Senior Application Engineer at Mollie

- **Company:** Mollie
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mollie/a484a3b8-2d39-4eb0-bf31-8b5648fb73e5

## Job description

Your Opportunity: At Mollie, we’re on a mission to make payments and money management effortless for every business in Europe. Serving more than 250,000 businesses across the continent, we aim to cut through financial bureaucracy that hinders great ideas from growing. Our belief is that accepting payments, driving revenue, accessing capital, and managing money should be seamless for our merchants.

As a Senior Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of developing financial products that will shape the future of how businesses manage their finances. Along with expanding into new markets and handling an increasing volume of transactions, Mollie has recently introduced exciting new products to broaden our offering. You’ll have the opportunity to bring your ideas to life and contribute to these impactful projects. [Mollie Capital](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDE7DuonwiY) offers easy access to flexible financing, providing funding to support growth and cash flow management. [In-person payments](https://www.mollie.com/gb/products/pos-payments), allows merchants to accept payments at their physical stores through our terminal and mobile app. These innovations are just the beginning, enabling Mollie to offer a seamless, all-in-one payment solution and money management platform.

What You will Be Doing:

- Building Large-Scale Systems: Designing and engineering systems that can scale to handle high volumes of transactions.
- Developing Products Our Customers Love: Iterating from an idea to the final solution, shaping, building, testing, and measuring the performance of the features our customers love.
- Mentorship: Providing guidance and support to junior team members, fostering their growth through mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and hands-on collaboration.
- Tech Leadership: Leading technical initiatives from architecture design to implementation, ensuring engineering excellence.
- Problem-Solving: Utilising your creative problem-solving skills and analytical abilities to resolve complex issues and contribute to our mission of making financial processes effortless.
- Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Creating comprehensive documentation to facilitate domain knowledge sharing and set up optimised processes.
- Engineering Excellence: Owning the code quality and engineering excellence and best practices of our systems.

What You’ll Bring:

- Always Be Shipping Mindset: It’s about consistently delivering value to customers, where speed and quality go hand in hand.
- 6+ years of experience in developing large-scale applications, preferably with PHP or Java. Experience with Go, C#, or Python is also valued but you are willing to work with PHP or Java.
- Proven experience in leading architectural decisions and technical initiatives, delivering end-to-end solutions, and optimising processes.
- Experience in mentoring junior developers and implementing strategies to drive team growth and skill development.
- Excellent communication skills, with experience working effectively with various stakeholders. Can explain complex problems and solutions in simple terms.
- Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to shape ideas with a product-first approach, as well as analyse and resolve complex issues.
- Ability to hold yourself accountable for your tasks, and show a willingness to proactively identify and improve things, whether technical or business related.

## About Mollie

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mollie makes payments and money management effortless for every business in Europe and the UK.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2004
- **Founders**: Not disclosed in provided sources

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Financial technology (payments and money management)
- Target customers: B2B – from startups to enterprises (250,000+ businesses)
- Mission: Eliminate financial bureaucracy and offer a simpler, more affordable alternative to traditional banking

## Products & Services
- **Mollie Payments (Online)**: Accept credit/debit cards, iDEAL, PayPal, and other payment methods via hosted checkout or APIs; supports recurring billing and subscriptions.
- **Mollie Terminal (In-Person)**: Card-present payments using portable terminals that integrate with the Mollie dashboard.
- **Payment Links**: Create and share secure links to get paid on any channel without a website.
- **Mollie Business Account**: A current account alongside payments, offering cashback, reconciliation, and financing features.
- **Fraud Prevention & Reconciliation**: Built-in tools to reduce chargebacks and automate settlement reporting.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed in provided sources
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $934.32M (source: CB Insights)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not specified in provided sources
- **Growth Signals**: Serving over 250,000 businesses across Europe; ~1,000 employees representing 50+ nationalities; expanding offices in 12 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **All-in-one platform**: Combines payments, business accounts, financing, and accounting tools – removing the need for multiple vendors.
- **Product-first approach**: Founded and led by engineers; focuses on fast product cycles and customer feedback.
- **European focus**: Deep local expertise (e.g., iDEAL in the Netherlands) while serving pan-European merchants.
- **Developer-friendly**: Offers client/server libraries (JS, PHP, .NET, Python) and prebuilt integrations for major ecommerce platforms.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue simplifying financial bureaucracy for European businesses.
- Scale in-person payments and expand the business account offering.
- Invest in fraud prevention and risk management to support merchant growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "entrepreneurial spirit", "bold ownership, humble execution", "customer obsessed", and "embrace change". Employees are called "Mollies" and encouraged to bring their authentic selves.
- **Work environment**: Offices in 12 countries; hybrid/office policy varies by role (many positions are office-based with flexibility). A "work from home budget" is available.
- **Perks**: Employee stock option plan / equity, noise-cancelling headphones, MacBook, supersize screen, birthday off, company parties, wellbeing program, learning and development budget, referral bonus.
- **Hiring process**: Typically 4–5 stages (application screening, TA call, first interview, take-home challenge, final interview with stakeholders); emphasis on both skills and cultural fit ("the Mollie Way").

## Sources
1. [mollie.com/about](https://www.mollie.com/about)
2. [mollie.com/](https://www.mollie.com/)
3. [jobs.mollie.com/](https://jobs.mollie.com/)
4. [cbinsights.com/company/mollie](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/mollie)
5. [jobs.mollie.com/vacancies](https://jobs.mollie.com/vacancies)

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