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Job Description

About the roleÌý

CurrencycloudÌýwas acquired by Visa in December 2021. OurÌýStaffÌýSoftware EngineersÌýare responsible for implementing an industry-leading API that has already processed over 50ÌýbillionÌýUSD 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.Ìý

Our stack runs onÌýAWS 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.Ìý

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What you'll get to do

  • You’ll play a key role within your cross functional team, taking responsibility for your services and the technology within them.Ìý

  • These roles fit in to squads who are building out brand new parts to our payments platform, focusing on high availability, cloud native, microservice conceptsÌý

  • You'll get to work as the Staff Software Engineer in your squad, leading on discussions around technical direction and systems design, as well as mentoring more junior members of the teamÌý

You'll get

  • Clear ownership of your domainÌý

  • A clean modern codebaseÌý

  • An independent path to productionÌý

  • Strong platform and product supportÌý

  • The ability to make real changes with real business value.ÌýÌýÌý

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Our Tech Stack includes

  • Object-oriented programmingÌýforms the bulk of our codebase, currently in Java, versions 11+, and ideallyÌýSpringbootÌýframeworkÌý

  • Highly-scalable, highly-available, cloud-native applications on AWSÌýare key to our next phase of growth, are written to 12-factor principles and fit into our microservices architectureÌý

  • Cloud-related tools, services, and distributed system observabilityÌýto support these applications, such as Docker, Kubernetes,ÌýElasticSearch, log management systems, and Datadog APM, to name but a fewÌý

  • API specifications, conforming to theÌýOpenAPIÌý(Swagger) standard, provide a clean boundary both externally between our customers and our product, and internally between our microservicesÌý

  • 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 datastoresÌý

  • Infrastructure automationÌýis primarily owned by the infrastructure team, but you will be a consumer of their work, familiarity with AWS, Terraform and Docker is beneficialÌý

  • 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,ÌýRSpecÌýand CucumberÌý

  • 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 teamsÌý

  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelinesÌýallow us to automate-all-the-things, providing repeatable builds and consistent deploymentsÌý

  • GitHub, and the GitHub PR review process, forms a core part of our developer workflow, and peer reviews help share knowledge and improve qualityÌý

  • 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 developmentÌý

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


Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD

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


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.


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