Senior Software Engineer

Visa; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading payments technology company as a Software Engineer, where you will solve complex challenges and build innovative payment solutions. Work on distributed systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance user experiences globally.

Qualifications

• 7-12 years of relevant experience in software engineering.
• Experience in building and deploying modern services and web applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software products for a global customer base.
• Collaborate to create design artifacts and develop software solutions.

Skills

Java

C++

C#

Agile

Docker

Kubernetes

RESTful APIs

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Jira

Jira Align

MySQL

NoSQL

Spring

Hazelcast

Kafka

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Company Description

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

Visa's Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world's most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you'll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.

The Work itself:

• 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
• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
• Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance.
• Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements.
• Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
• Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, 'hacking' beyond traditional solutions
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
-Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related
field, with 7-12 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications
-Proficient in Java programming with a deep understanding of best practices
and advanced concepts.
-Extensive experience in building and consuming RESTful APIs.
-In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with Spring technologies.
-Skilled in using Hazelcast, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes (K8s).
-Capable of creating detailed flow, block, and logical diagrams to represent
solutions.
-Comfortable delivering presentations to small and medium-sized groups.
-Proven experience in designing secure, resilient, and scalable systems.
-Experience in setting up and maintaining Continuous Integration and
Continuous Delivery pipelines.
-Familiar with both MySQL and NoSQL database technologies.
-Knowledgeable about network architecture, load balancing, and firewalls.
-Highly skilled in using Java and REST to develop microservices that are easy to
deploy and maintain.
-Basic to proficient knowledge of tools like Jira and Jira Align, with experience
working in Agile teams.
-Exemplary work ethics that contribute to a collaborative and productive work
environment.
-Familiarity with relational and NoSQL database systems.
-Strong ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels to ensure
ideas are understood and implemented.
-Committed to exceeding expectations and delivering high-quality code.
-Genuine passion for understanding user needs and continuously improving
products and services.

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.