Junior Software Engineer

As a Junior Software Engineer youll learn and contribute to building services and tooling that help product teams deliver realtime features. This is a handson role where youll write code pair with experienced engineers participate in code reviews and follow best practices for reliable scalable and observable systems. Youll have support from mentors and your squad to grow quickly. 

This role sits within Visas Treasury function which is responsible for managing global liquidity cash flow and risk to keep payments moving smoothly across markets. Treasury ensures funds are available where needed and supports critical processes like settlements and foreign exchange. As part of this team youll help build reliable scalable systems that underpin these operations and enable real-time visibility and control. 

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 youll get to do 

• Write and maintain backend code in Java (11) and Spring Boot on real services with guidance from senior engineers. 

• Contribute small features and tests to services that integrate with Kafka Flink and related technologies. 

• Add observability (metrics logs traces) and improve reliability under the supervision of the team. 

• Help refine requirements demo your work and deliver incrementally in Agile squads.

• Participate in code reviews documentation and CI/CD pipelines. 

• Learn and apply eventdriven patterns in practical production contexts. 

Youll get 

• Ownership of welldefined tasks and components within the treasury domain with mentorship and clear growth paths. 

• Exposure to modern technologies and production practices. 

• A modern tech stack and the autonomy to try ideas supported by your squad. 

• Strong organisational support visibility and opportunities to learn. 

Our Tech Stack includes 

• Object-oriented programming forms the bulk of our codebase currently in Java versions 11 and ideallySpringbootframework 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 KubernetesElasticSearch 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. Youll 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 JUnitRSpecand 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 youll 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 :

Basic Qualifications
Bachelors degree (or finalyear student) in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience (projects internships opensource).
No professional experience required but you must demonstrate interest and learning initiative.

Preferred Qualifications
Coursework projects internships or opensource contributions in Java and Spring Boot.
Skills with functional Java (versions 8) and Spring (ideally Springboot)
Agile ways of working such as Scrum or Kanban in cross-functional teams
Knowledge of Docker EKS AWS (public cloud) and Kafka
Clear structured communication ability to explain your solutions and ask good questions.
Interest in cloudnative practices: high availability scalability CI/CD testing automation and observability.
Experience writing tests (JUnit Cucumber or similar) in project work.
Curiosity about DevOps and you build it you run it culture.
Evidence of welltested performant solutions in projects (benchmarks unit/integration tests).
A selfstarter mindsetexamples of initiatives youve driven (capstone project hackathon club leadership personal repo).
Pragmatic approach to problem solving and collaboration.
Comfortable challenging the status quo respectfully and learning how complex systems work.
Strong written and verbal communication.
Comfortable working in a fastmoving 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time