Software Engineer, Innovation London, England
Job description
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.
When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.
Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.
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 passionate and hands-on senior 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. Strong 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 strong committer and contributor to the development of several innovation projects. The engineer should be able to translate design artefacts into code and deliver results independently with minimal oversight, adhering to design and development standards. In many cases, this would need you to lead other developers and collaborate with other teams, engineers and architects - including those from our clients and partners. These projects will be instrumental in making an impact on Visa and the payments industry as a whole.
Basic:
- Intermediate level skills in Java (preferred) / Kotlin / C# / C++
- In-depth knowledge of data structures implementation and optimization
- 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
- Self-driven and willing to work across technologies/languages as a full-stack engineer
- Experience in language features such as lambda expressions, generics, and streams
- Proficiency in troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, application design, and implementing large components for enterprise projects
Preferred
- Experience in Spring (java)
- Experience building application frameworks or reusable components
- Experience using OAuth2.0 and authentication methods/protocols
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.
