Staff Software Engineer

Visa; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global payments company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Cambridge. This hybrid role involves collaborating with product teams, mentoring junior engineers, and delivering scalable distributed applications. Ideal candidates should have robust experience in Java and modern software development practices. Join a company dedicated to connecting the world through innovative payment solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing scalable distributed applications.
• Comfortable working with large codebases including refactoring strategies.
• Experience of technical mentorship, and architectural decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to create and build features for clients.
• Provide mentorship and coordinate project tasks.
• Own tasks and ensure high-quality work.

Skills

Expert understanding of relevant technologies

Problem-solving and debugging

Technical mentorship

Knowledge of security best practices

Ability to manage workload

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

MongoDB

RabbitMQ

HTTP API development

Job 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.

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.

Role

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

• Collaborating with Product and Project teams to determine, plan, create, and build ARIC features for our clients in a timely and consistent manner.
• Coordinating the team's investigation, escalation, and resolution of customer concerns requiring technical expertise.
• Helping with project coordination, task delegation, and peer review for UI-related projects.
• Providing mentorship to the team of UI engineers.

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.

Technical

• 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.

Impact

• Consistently delivers significant contributions to projects and codebases.
• Positively influences team outcomes through technical expertise.
• Represents team on projects spanning multiple teams.
• Technical authority on architecture and system design within team.

Behaviour

• Takes ownership of tasks and projects.
• Adapts quickly to new technologies and methodologies.
• Prioritises tasks effectively to balance urgent and important work.
• Communicates team progress against milestones at an appropriate cadence to relevant stakeholders.
• Ensures the work is of high quality and meets department standards.
• Delegates effectively, ensures tasks are completed as specified.
• Makes independent decisions for the team.

This is a hybrid position, with the expectation being 3 days per week in the Cambridge office.

Qualifications

Required experience

• Knowledge of modern IDEs, source control and continuous integration systems
• Experience of designing and developing scalable distributed applications, including fault tolerance, consistency models, and high availability
• Knowledge of patterns and their trade-offs in a distributed environment
• Comfortable working with large codebases including refactoring strategies and techniques
• External API integration
• Code profiling and performance tuning
• Ability to manage and prioritise your own workload
• Knowledge of security best practices
• Root cause analysis of defects and outages
• Experience of technical mentorship, and architectural decision making

Great to have:

• Experience of relational and/or NoSQL databases such as MongoDB for large datasets, including query optimization, and indexing strategies
• Web services – HTTP API development- Swagger / OpenAPI
• Message queuing systems – RabbitMQ / ActiveMQ / Kafka
• Cloud platforms and automation
• SSO systems such as SAML and OIDC
• Proficiency in modern Java (version 11 or later) and Spring Boot.

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.