Senior PHP Software Engineer (Remote) in London

About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world.

Currencycloud was acquired by Visa in December 2021. As a MidLevel Software Engineer, you'll help develop and maintain the platform services and tooling that enable our product teams to deliver realtime features. Our stack runs on AWS as a set of distributed applications using Kubernetes and a microservice-led architecture. We are also utilizing Kafka for our streaming and PACT for Contract testing.

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa's internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability.
• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings.
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads.
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities.
• Develop and maintain backend services and tooling using Java (11+) and Spring Boot, integrating with Kafka and related technologies.
• Build frameworks and reusable components that simplify consumption of realtime data capabilities for other teams.
• Work with cross-functional partners to understand requirements and deliver incrementally in Agile squads.
• Contribute to code reviews, testing, documentation, and CI/CD pipelines.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD).
• 3-5 years of relevant backend development experience with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years experience in Java backend (Spring Boot 2.x preferable).

The Skills You Bring:

• Skills with functional Java (versions 8+) and Spring (ideally Springboot).
• Agile ways of working such as Scrum or Kanban in cross-functional teams.
• Expert knowledge of Docker, EKS, AWS (public cloud) and Kafka.
• Ability to communicate equally effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Modern Cloud-Native architectures and practices.
• TDD, BDD and Contract testing.
• Working in a DevOps environment, or passion and willingness to work in this way.
• A pragmatic approach to solutions and delivery of technical projects.
• Comfortable working in a scale-up or growth environment and as part of a wider team.

Our Tech Stack includes:

• Object-oriented programming forms the bulk of our codebase, currently in Java, versions 11+, and ideally Springboot framework.
• Highly-scalable, highly-available, cloud-native applications on AWS are key to our next phase of growth, are written to 12-factor principles and fit into our microservices architecture.
• Cloud-related tools, services, and distributed system observability to support these applications, such as Docker, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, log management systems, and Datadog APM.
• API specifications, conforming to the OpenAPI (Swagger) standard.
• SQL, and large SQL databases, provide the persistence layer for our applications.
• Infrastructure automation is primarily owned by the infrastructure team, but you will be a consumer of their work, familiarity with AWS, Terraform and Docker is beneficial.
• Testing approaches, including TDD, BDD and Contract Testing.
• Agile development, with teams broadly aligned with the Spotify - Squads and Tribes - model.
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines allow us to automate-all-the-things.
• GitHub, and the GitHub PR review process, forms a core part of our developer workflow.
• Teamwork, and cross-team collaboration, is fundamental to the delivery of our applications.

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.