Senior Software Engineer - Scala

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.

The Opportunity 

You will be joining the FX Core team at Currencycloud which is part of the Visa Direct/VXBS (Visa-Cross-Border-Solutions), where we are creating software to provide customers frictionless experience to exchange currencies in a complex environment of constantly moving markets.

You will be working alongside versatile and experienced engineers improving our FX capabilities. This includes the following contributions:

• Contribute to the next generation trading platform we are building. It is a great opportunity to work on scaling software towards a high volume of transactions – we frequently transact £1bn+ and serve millions of quotes.
• Design, build and maintain core FX trading capabilities. Our customers value us for being able to abstract away the intricacies of foreign exchange market under a simple API solution.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.
• Influence wider company architecture. The FX Core team historically contributed to many technical initiatives adopted by other teams.
• Work alongside QA engineers, who build and maintain a vast collection of automated testing scenarios.

You will be working alongside versatile and experienced engineers improving our FX capabilities. This includes the following contributions.

Core Competencies:

• Genuinely interested in intersection of finance domain and technology. Desire to become a subject matter expert.
• A self-starter who takes accountability for getting things done.  
• Passionate about growing others while growing yourself. An interest for continuous improvement and helping engineers to understand the big picture.
• Pragmatism in decision making and ability to get buy-in for ideas and getting them done.
• Top-notch stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence colleagues in small, cross-functional scrum teams.
• Exceptional structure and attention to detail.
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work.
• Be a learner – constant drive to learn new technologies such as databases, programming languages and infrastructure tooling.

We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice.

Basic Qualifications

• Relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or a PhD.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building microservices with Scala and Java.
• Proficient in other programming languages, ideally being comfortable reading Java or Ruby.
• Working knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres.
• Experience designing event based and streaming solutions using Kafka will be valued.
• Experience building applications that run in Kubernetes is important.
• Strong SQL knowledge, ability to understand and write complex queries.

Technical Skills:

• Competence working in codebase written in a functional and non-functional programming style.
• Good understanding of concurrency programming models. Especially under JVM.
• Knowledge of building distributed systems.
• Ability to conduct thoughtful code reviews.
• Ability to read other programming languages.
• Experience producing technical documentation in written and visual form.
• If you have experience using libraries such as cats, cats-effect, doobie, http4s – is a massive advantage.
• Experience working with Spring Boot is an advantage as well.

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.