Senior Software Engineer - Scala

Visa Inc.; Cardiff; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as part of the FX Core team, where you'll contribute to building a next-generation trading platform. This remote role offers the chance to work on high-volume transactions and design core trading capabilities that simplify foreign exchange markets through innovative API solutions. Collaborate with experienced engineers, influence company architecture, and mentor others while continuously learning and growing in a dynamic environment. If you're passionate about finance and technology, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in building microservices with Scala and Java.
• Strong SQL knowledge and ability to write complex queries.
• Proficient in relational databases like MySQL or Postgres.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the next generation trading platform with high transaction volume.
• Design and maintain core FX trading capabilities with simple API solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.

Skills

Scala

Java

Ruby

SQL

Concurrency Programming

Microservices

Distributed Systems

Technical Documentation

Event-based Solutions

Streaming Solutions

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Advanced Degree (Masters, MBA, JD, MD, PhD)

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

MySQL

Postgres

Spring Boot

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

You will be joining the FX Core team at Currencycloud which is part of the Visa Direct/VXBS (Visa-Cross-Border-Solutions), where we are creating software to provide customers frictionless experience to exchange currencies in a complex environment of constantly moving markets.

You will be working alongside versatile and experienced engineers improving our FX capabilities. This includes the following contributions:

• Contribute to the next generation trading platform we are building. It is a great opportunity to work on scaling software towards a high volume of transactions – we frequently transact £1bn+ and serve millions of quotes.
• Design, build and maintain core FX trading capabilities. Our customers value us for being able to abstract away the intricacies of foreign exchange market under a simple API solution.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.
• Influence wider company architecture. The FX Core team historically contributed to many technical initiatives adopted by other teams.
• Work alongside QA engineers, who build and maintain a vast collection of automated testing scenarios.

Core Competencies:

• Genuinely interested in intersection of finance domain and technology. Desire to become a subject matter expert.
• A self-starter who takes accountability for getting things done.
• Passionate about growing others while growing yourself. An interest for continuous improvement and helping engineers to understand the big picture.
• Pragmatism in decision making and ability to get buy-in for ideas and getting them done.
• Top-notch stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence colleagues in small, cross-functional scrum teams.
• Exceptional structure and attention to detail.
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work.
• Be a learner – constant drive to learn new technologies such as databases, programming languages and infrastructure tooling.

This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice.

Basic Qualifications:

• Relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or a PhD.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building microservices with Scala and Java.
• Proficient in other programming languages, ideally being comfortable reading Java or Ruby.
• Working knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres.
• Experience designing event based and streaming solutions using Kafka will be valued.
• Experience building applications that run in Kubernetes is important.
• Strong SQL knowledge, ability to understand and write complex queries.

Technical Skills:

• Competence working in codebase written in a functional and non-functional programming style.
• Good understanding of concurrency programming models, especially under JVM.
• Knowledge of building distributed systems.
• Ability to conduct thoughtful code reviews.
• Ability to read other programming languages.
• Experience producing technical documentation in written and visual form.
• If you have experience using libraries such as cats, cats-effect, doobie, http4s – is a massive advantage.
• Experience working with Spring Boot is an advantage as well.

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.