Senior Software Engineer - Featurespace

Senior Software Engineer - Featurespace

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

At Visa, we are passionate about making a difference. We lead the way in disrupting fraud from multiple vectors. In this role you will be joining an exciting, innovative business new to the Visa family.

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

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customer by working with product teams to specify, design and deliver bespoke functionality. You will provide tactical software solutions outside the normal development cycle to support integration efforts. Supporting product and project teams in integrating ARIC with internal and third-party systems, developing new functionality as needed. You will review and investigate Engineering Triage requests, either addressing directly or referring to other Engineering teams; providing engineering resource by exception to support other Engineering teams during the software development cycle.

Responsibilities

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 optimised, scalable code.
• Solve complex problems and help others in debugging and resolving issues.
• Seen as a code approver at a larger scale outside of scrum team.
• Improve areas of the system you work on, leaving things better than you found them.

Impact

• Lead significant portions of projects and make impactful contributions.
• Capable of driving technical initiatives and lead resolution of critical bugs.
• Identify solutions to larger problems with assistance from peers.
• Take part in the process of interviewing, recruitment, and onboarding within your team.

Behaviour

• Take full ownership of projects and ensure success.
• Regularly mentor other engineers, particularly those less experienced than yourself.
• Ability to support onboarding of new engineers into their team.
• Proactively seek and give timely, actionable feedback in your team.
• Help grow the engineering function by participating in the hiring process, giving effective feedback in scorecards and during debriefs.
• Promote good practises and help other engineers deepen their knowledge.
• Confident in judgement and design making, pulling in support from around the company where needed.

This is a hybrid position, therefore we require 3 days per week in the office.

Qualifications

Required experience:

• 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.