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# Senior Application Engineer at Mollie

- **Company:** Mollie
- **Location:** Milan, Italy
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-01-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mollie/f62986be-80fb-4878-8c33-138ca4c87634

## 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.

Our Milan Hub: In 2023, we successfully launched a new hub in one of the most vibrant cities in Europe: Milan! Since its inception, the Milan hub has been consolidated and continues to grow at a fast pace, contributing significantly to Mollie’s mission with multiple passionate agile engineering teams that will innovate, build, and enhance our portfolio of next-generation payment products. You'll work in a cross-functional team (Data, Machine Learning, Platform and Product) to accelerate our product delivery.

What You will Be Doing:

- Building Large-Scale Systems: Help us design and engineer systems that can scale to handle high volumes of transactions.
- API and Service Development: Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Mollie’s engineering teams.
- Tech Leadership: Lead technical initiatives from architecture design to implementation, ensuring engineering excellence.
- Problem-Solving: Utilize 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: Create comprehensive documentation to facilitate domain knowledge sharing and set up optimised processes.
- Engineering Excellence: Own 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 Java or PHP. Experience with Go, C#, or Python is also valued but you are willing to work with Java.
- Proven experience in leading architectural decisions and technical initiatives, delivering end-to-end solutions, and optimising processes.
- 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.

*Kindly note that relocation support is not offered for candidates outside of Europe for this role. Please apply to this job by sending over your CV in English.

## 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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