Software Engineer - Backend

  • UK Only
  • visa
Job Description:

Company Description

As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.

Job Description

Visa Innovation Center focuses on building technology for the next generation of payments. We co-create cutting-edge solutions with our clients, partners, fintechs and other technology leaders. We are dedicated to solving hard problems of the future in new payment flows, Cloud, IoT, Blockchain, Mobile, UX, Machine Learning, and Data Analytics. We are looking for hands-on software engineers with a passion to build innovative products.

This role requires quick problem solving skills, logical thinking, and application of programming techniques to design, build, and maintain code. Good knowledge of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms is a must. In addition to the technical skill set, the candidate will be a self-starter, results-driven, and equipped with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

The Software Engineer is an individual contributor role, and this developer will be a committer and contributor to the development of several innovation projects, partnering with other team members and teams. These projects will be instrumental in making an impact on Visa and the payments industry as a whole.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline or relevant industry experience

  • Intermediate level skills in Java (preferred) / Kotlin / C# / C++

  • In-depth knowledge of data structures implementation and optimization

  • Self-driven and willing to work across technologies/languages as a full-stack engineer

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in language features such as lambda expressions, generics, and streams

• Experience in Spring (java)

• Experience building enterprise-scale web services (RESTful)

• Experience with build and deploy systems (Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, Kubernetes or similar)

• Experience in handling multi-threading, concurrency, and error-handling

• Experience building application frameworks or reusable components

• Proficiency in troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, application design, and implementing large components for enterprise projects

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in building highly robust Android or iOS applications

• Experience in javascript and React or other front-end languages and frameworks

• Experience using OAuth2.0

• Experience in working on cryptography, bluetooth based transmission protocols

• Experience in IoT, NFC, machine learning / data science, NLP

• Experience in payments tech industry

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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