Senior Java Software Engineer - Featurespace

Visa; Hartford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global payments technology leader in the United Kingdom is looking for a Senior Java Software Engineer to help drive impactful projects and mentor other engineers. The role involves collaborative development of new features and maintenance of existing systems, while ensuring code quality and performance. Candidates should have robust Java skills, agile experience, and a background in API development and database management. Join a team committed to innovation and excellence in payment solutions in a supportive working environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in a software engineering position.
• Ability to manage and prioritise your own workload.
• Experience of designing and developing scalable distributed applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop new features and maintain the existing Java code base.
• Support software dependency updates and vulnerability fixes.
• Lead customer issue resolution and team coordination.

Skills

Java

Agile methodologies

Problem-solving

API development

Cloud platforms

Message queuing systems

Database management

Performance tuning

Tools

Modern IDEs

Source control

Continuous integration systems

Job description

In your role as Senior Java Software Engineer you will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customer by:

Role Responsibilities As a company we hire people with a willingness to adapt to a variable role, so along with the key responsibilities below, we ask for ownership of any other duties as required.

• Collaborating with team members to develop new features and maintain the existing Java code base to support the ARIC UI
• Supporting the teams' efforts to ensure software dependencies remain up-to-date and vulnerability free
• Supporting the team's investigation and resolution of customer issues, including leading co-ordination where necessary
• Providing Java and agile software development expertise
• Expert understanding of relevant technologies and ability to write optimized, scalable code
• Solves complex problems and helps others in debugging and resolving issues
• Seen as a code approver at a larger scale outside of scrum team
• Improves areas of the system they work on, leaves things better than they found them
• Leads significant portions of projects and makes impactful contributions
• Capable of driving technical initiatives and leading resolution of critical bugs
• Identifies solutions to larger problems with assistance from peers
• Takes part in the process of interviewing, recruitment, and onboarding within their team
• Takes full ownership of projects and ensures success
• Regularly mentors other engineers, particularly those less experienced than themselves
• Able to support onboarding of new engineers into their team
• Proactively seeks and gives timely, actionable feedback in their team
• Promotes good practises and helps other engineers deepen their knowledge
• Confidence in judgement and design making, pulls in support from around the company where needed, Experience of relational and /or NoSQL databases for large datasets
• Web services - HTTP API development
• Message queuing systems - RabbitMQ / ActiveMQ / Kafka
• Cloud platforms and automation
• Demonstrable experience in a software engineering position
• Ability to manage and prioritise your own workload
• Modern IDEs, source control and continuous integration systems
• Experience of designing and developing scalable distributed applications
• Knowledge of patterns and their trade-offs in a distributed environment
• Comfortable working with large codebases
• External API integration
• Code profiling and performance tuning

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.

At Featurespace, we strive to be the world's best software company at protecting our clients and their customers from fraud attacks. We do that with personality, heart and professionalism, cultivating an innovative, fun and positive team atmosphere where everybody can contribute to solving our clients' problems in new, innovative ways. We are always seeking to be the best at what we do and make our customers smile.