Staff SW Engineer - Java (SR SWE)

Overview

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Currencycloud was acquired by Visa in December 2021. Our Senior Software Engineers are responsible for implementing an industry-leading API that has already processed over 50 billion USD of cross-border transactions for over 5 million end users, and is available to our clients 24×7. We’re at the forefront of taking us forward to meet the demands of even greater scale.

What you’ll get to do

• As a Senior Software Engineer you’ll play a key role within your cross functional team, taking responsibility for your services and the technology within them.
• These roles fit into squads who are building out brand new parts to our Treasury stack, focusing on high availability, cloud native, microservice concepts.
• You’ll get to work as the Lead Engineer in your squad, leading on discussions around technical direction and systems design, as well as mentoring more junior members of the team.

You’ll get

• Clear ownership of your domain
• A clean modern codebase
• An independent path to production
• Strong platform and product support
• The ability to make real changes with real business value.

Tech Stack

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, provide a clean boundary both externally between our customers and our product, and internally between our microservices
• SQL databases provide the persistence layer for our applications
• Infrastructure automation is primarily owned by the infrastructure team; familiarity with AWS, Terraform and Docker is beneficial
• Testing approaches including TDD, BDD and Contract Testing, using frameworks such as JUnit, RSpec and Cucumber
• Agile development modeled around the Spotify – Squads and Tribes approach, with emphasis on continuous improvement
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines for repeatable builds and deployments
• GitHub and the GitHub PR review process as part of the developer workflow
• Teamwork and cross-team collaboration with Product Owners and QA to deliver products

Working arrangement

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in Java Backend Development
• 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 effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Modern Cloud-Native architectures and practices (high-availability, high-scalability, microservices, 12-factor apps, event-driven architecture, CI/CD, testing automation, observability)
• TDD, BDD and Contract testing
• Experience in a DevOps environment or willingness to work in one
• Proven delivery of well-tested, scalable, fault-tolerant and performant solutions
• Self-starter with accountability and pragmatism in decision making
• Excellent structure, attention to detail, and strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable working in a scale-up or growth environment within a wider team

Additional Information

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.