Overview

Currencycloud was acquired by Visa in December 2021. Our Senior Software Engineers are responsible for implementing an industry-leading API that has already processed over 50 billion USD of cross-border transactions for over 5 million end users, and is available to our clients 24x7. We’re moving forward to meet the demands of greater scale with engineers at the forefront.

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 you’ll get to do

As a Senior Software Engineer you’ll play a key role within your cross functional team, taking responsibility for your services and the technology within them. These roles fit in to squads who are building out brand new parts to our payments platform, focusing on high availability, cloud native, microservice concepts. You will work as the Lead Engineer in your squad, leading on discussions around technical direction and systems design, as well as mentoring more junior members of the team.

You'll get

• Clear ownership of your domain
• An independent path to production
• Strong platform and product support
• The ability to make real changes with real business value

Key technical areas include keeping to 12-factor principles, building highly-scalable, highly-available, cloud-native applications on AWS within a microservices architecture.

Object-oriented programming forms the bulk of our codebase, currently in Java (11+), and ideally Spring Boot. You will be working with SQL and large SQL databases, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenAPI specifications, and distributed system observability tooling (e.g., Datadog APM).

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 include TDD, BDD and Contract Testing, with frameworks such as JUnit, RSpec and Cucumber. Agile development is used, with teams aligned to the Spotify squads-and-tribes model. CI/CD pipelines enable repeatable builds and deployments. GitHub and PR reviews are core to the developer workflow. Cross-team collaboration is fundamental to delivery, with interactions among Product Owners and QA.

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 with an Advanced degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD), or 0 years with a PhD, or 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in Java Backend Development
• Experience with functional Java (versions 8+) and Spring (ideally Spring Boot)
• Agile methodologies in cross-functional teams (Scrum or Kanban)
• Expert knowledge of Docker, AWS (public cloud) and Kafka
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Modern Cloud-Native architectures and practices (high availability, high scalability, microservices, 12-factor apps, CI/CD, automation and observability)
• TDD, BDD and Contract testing
• Experience in a DevOps environment or willingness to work in one
• Proven delivery of well-tested, scalable, fault-tolerant and performant solutions
• A pragmatic, self-starting approach with accountability
• Strong attention to detail and effective decision-making with buy-in
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable working in a scale-up or growth environment within a wider team

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.