Company Description

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.

Progress starts with you.

Job Description

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.

The Opportunity

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

• 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

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.

• 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

Qualifications

Required experience:

• 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

Great to have:

• 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

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.