Staff Software Engineer

Tink; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global payment technology company is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their team in Greater London. The successful candidate will have over 5 years of Java backend development experience and expertise in Docker and AWS. You will play a key role in developing cloud-native applications while leading your cross-functional team. This role offers a hybrid working environment, with the expectation of some days in the office.

Benefits

Hybrid work model

Opportunity for career growth

Collaborative team environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Java Backend Development.
• Expert knowledge of Docker, EKS, AWS, and Kafka.
• Experience in Agile working, such as Scrum or Kanban.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering discussions and system design in your team.
• Develop high-availability, cloud-native applications.
• Mentor junior team members for skill enhancement.

Skills

Java Backend Development

Spring Boot

Docker

AWS

Kafka

Agile methodologies

TDD

BDD

Microservices architecture

Team collaboration

Tools

GitHub

Terraform

Job description

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

Currencycloud was acquired by Visa in December 2021. Our Senior Software Engineers are responsible for implementing an industry-leading API that has already processed over 50 billion USD of cross-border transactions for over 5 million end users, and is available to our clients 24x7. But we’re not stopping there, and our engineers are at the forefront of taking us forward to meet the demands of even greater scale.

Our stack runs on AWS as a set of distributed applications using Kubernetes and a microservice-led architecture. We are also utilising Kafka for our streaming and PACT for Contract testing.

What you'll get to do:

• As a Senior Software Engineer you’ll play a key role within your cross functional team, taking responsibility for your services and the technology within them.
• These roles fit in to squads who are building out brand new parts to our Treasury stack, focusing on high availability, cloud native, microservice concepts
• You’ll get to work as the Lead Engineer in your squad, leading on discussions around technical direction and systems design, as well as mentoring more junior members of the team

You’ll get:

• Clear ownership of your domain
• A clean modern codebase
• An independent path to production
• Strong platform and product support
• The ability to make real changes with real business value.

Our Tech Stack includes:

• Object-oriented programming forms the bulk of our codebase, currently in Java, versions 11+, and ideally Springboot framework
• Highly-scalable, highly-available, cloud-native applications on AWS are key to our next phase of growth, are written to 12-factor principles and fit into our microservices architecture
• Cloud-related tools, services, and distributed system observability to support these applications, such as Docker, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, log management systems, and Datadog APM, to name but a few
• API specifications, conforming to the OpenAPI (Swagger) standard, provide a clean boundary both externally between our customers and our product, and internally between our microservices
• SQL, and large SQL databases, provide the persistence layer for our applications. You’ll be working with (and know the limitations of using) such large datastores
• Infrastructure automation is primarily owned by the infrastructure team, but you will be a consumer of their work, familiarity with AWS, Terraform and Docker is beneficial
• Testing approaches, including TDD, BDD and Contract Testing, all form an important part of our approach to quality assurance, ensuring that the code that we write forms products that are fit for use. We currently use a variety of frameworks including JUnit, RSpec and Cucumber
• Agile development, with teams broadly aligned with the Spotify - Squads and Tribes - model, helps us deliver incremental improvements to our products in an iterative manner. Advocating this model, and joining us on a journey of continuous improvement, is a key attribute of members of our teams
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines allow us to automate-all-the-things, providing repeatable builds and consistent deployments
• GitHub, and the GitHub PR review process, forms a core part of our developer workflow, and peer reviews help share knowledge and improve quality
• Teamwork, and cross-team collaboration, is fundamental to the delivery of our applications. Whilst each application has an independent path to production, there will always be some activities and initiatives that span multiple teams and require cross-team collaboration. Within your team you’ll need to collaborate with a number of stakeholders, including Product Owners and QA, as part of your product development

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

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:
5+ years experience in Java Backend Development.
Skills with functional Java (versions 8+) and Spring (ideally Springboot)
Agile ways of working such as Scrum or Kanban in cross-functional teams
Expert knowledge of Docker, EKS, AWS (public cloud) and Kafka.
Ability to communicate equally effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Modern Cloud-Native architectures and practices. To name some: high-availability, high-scalability, microservices, 12-factor apps, Event-driven architecture CI/CD, heavy testing automation and observability.
TDD, BDD and Contract testing.
Working in a DevOps environment, or passion and willingness to work in this way.
Proven delivery of well-tested, scalable, fault-tolerant and performant solutions.
A pragmatic approach to solutions and delivery of technical projects.
A self-starter who takes accountability for getting things done.
Pragmatism in decision making and ability to get buy-in for ideas and getting them done.
Exceptional structure and attention to detail.
Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work.
Great written and verbal communication skills.
Comfortable working in a scale-up or growth environment and as part of a wider team.

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.