Software Engineer

Currencycloud was acquired by Visa in December 2021. Our teams build and maintain an industryleading API that has processed over 50 billion USD in crossborder transactions for more than 5 million end users and is available to clients 247. Were continuing to scale rapidly and our engineers are at the forefront of meeting the demands of this growth.

As a Software Engineer youll help develop and maintain the platform services and tooling that enable our product teams to deliver realtime features. This is a handson role where youll design and implement robust solutions collaborate closely with peers and follow best practices to ensure our systems remain reliable scalable and observable.

Our stack runs on AWS as a set of distributed applications using Kubernetes and a microservice-led architecture. We are also utilizing Kafka for our streaming and PACT for Contract testing. 

What youll get to do 

• Develop and maintain backend services and tooling using Java (11) and Spring Boot integrating with Kafka and related technologies.

• Build frameworks and reusable components that simplify consumption of realtime data capabilities for other teams. 

• Implement reliability scalability and observability features (metrics logs tracing) for platform components. 

• Work with cross-functional partners to understand requirements and deliver incrementally in Agile squads. 

• Contribute to code reviews testing documentation and CI/CD pipelines. 

• Support event-driven architectures by applying patterns and communicating practical benefits to partner teams. 

 Youll get 

• Clear ownership of your domain

• A clean modern codebase 

• An independent path to production 

• Strong platform and product support 

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

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

Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications:
3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD)
35 years of relevant backend development experience with a Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience.
3 years experience in Java backend (Spring Boot 2.x/3.x preferrable)
Skills with functional Java (versions 8) and Spring (ideally Springboot)
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 
Agile ways of working such as Scrum or Kanban in cross-functional teams
Expert knowledge of Docker EKS AWS (public cloud) and Kafka
Ability to communicate equally effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Modern Cloud-Native architectures and practices. To name some: high-availability high-scalability microservices 12-factor apps CI/CD heavy testing automation and observability.
TDD BDD and Contract testing.
Working in a DevOps environment or passion and willingness to work in this way.
Proven delivery of well-tested scalable fault-tolerant and performant solutions.
A pragmatic approach to solutions and delivery of technical projects.
A self-starter who takes accountability for getting things done.
Pragmatism in decision making and ability to get buy-in for ideas and getting them done.
Exceptional structure and attention to detail.
Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work.
Great written and verbal communication skills.
Comfortable working in a scale-up or growth 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