Software Engineer

Visa; Newtown; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global payments technology leader is seeking a skilled individual to enhance user experience and ensure the reliability of UI-server components. You'll develop new features for the ARIC engine, integrate solutions, and streamline functionality across systems. The ideal candidate will possess strong skills in API development, cloud platforms, and distributed applications, and be prepared to tackle meaningful challenges while significantly impacting users and communities around the world.

Qualifications

• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases for large datasets.
• Ability to support the development of new features from specification to deployment.
• Comfort with working in large codebases.

Responsibilities

• Champion great user experience and performance.
• Ensure that the UI-server component is reliable and secure.
• Build features and conduct code reviews.
• Integrate new modules into the ARIC platform.

Skills

User experience

API development

Code reviews

Cloud platforms

Message queueing systems

Continuous integration

Performance tuning

External API integration

Distributed applications

Tools

RabbitMQ

Kafka

ActiveMQ

Job description

Job Responsibilities & Qualifications

• Championing great user experience, accessibility, and performance throughout the UI.
• Ensuring that the UI-server component is reliable, stable, and secure.
• Assisting in creating code patterns, architecture, and design for features to be built in an efficient, repeatable, and maintainable manner.
• Building and maintaining integration points with other components to expose outputs of the engine, and other parts of the system to the UI.
• Working closely with the UI-client team to agree on the API for delivering content/functionality to the users.
• Working/co-ordinating with other engineering teams to expose ARIC functionality through an intuitive user experience.
• Ability to support the development of new features - from specification, through development, QA and into final deployment.
• Have an awareness of how your work fits in with the team's area of responsibility and goals
• Build defined features, investigating and fixing bugs, without supervision but with occasional support.
• Performing code reviews
• Communicate progress regularly whilst identifying any blocking issues and escalating where required
• Contribute to and work on cross-functional features and bugs
• Provide input into future technology development., Experience of relational and/or NoSQL databases for large datases
• Web services - HTTP API development
• Message queueing systems - RabbitMQ / ActiveMQ / Kafka
• Cloud platforms and automation
• 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 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. In this role you will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customers by Developing new features for our real-time platform which underpins our ARIC engine, integrating ARIC into customer deployments and building new modules to plug into our platform.

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.