Software Engineer (mid level) - Java

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

Tink was founded in 2012, and a decade later became part of Visa in 2022. Tink was created with the aim of changing the banking industry for the better. We have built Europe’s most robust open banking platform – with the broadest, deepest connectivity and powerful services that create value out of the financial data. We offer the tools that allow anyone – from big banks and fintechs to startups – to build the future of financial services across Europe.

Tink is building an open banking platform that enables banks, fintechs and startups to develop data-driven financial services. Through one API, Tink allows customers to access aggregated financial data, initiate payments, enrich transactions and build personal finance management tools. Tink connects to more than 3,400 banks that reach over 250 million bank customers across Europe. Our solutions are ready-to-go products, each developed to solve specific problems and bring value to both businesses and their customers.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Engineering Foundations area. Engineering Foundations builds the infrastructure and services that all other teams at Tink use everyday. This is the Developer Platform that Tink’s engineers use to ship products, and we make sure they can scale in a reliable and performant way.

The teams in Engineering Foundations have ownership of common infrastructure allowing teams to focus on shipping business features. Our problem domains range from message queues and observability to exposing APIs to the internet, building and testing our services as well as providing a stable and flexible runtime environment or scalable data stores.

What you will do

• Work with high load systems with high uptime requirements.

• Work with Tink’s technologies which is mainly Java, Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, SQL, Datadog and much more.

• Help your and other teams think about fun things like error budgets, SLI/SLOs, service capacity planning and demand forecasting.

What we offer you

Tink offers you a dynamic work environment where you can grow and develop your engineering skills, with opportunities for career advancement. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. This together with a team of experienced professionals who are passionate about creating products that make a difference.

Through our yearly salary review we make sure to keep Tinkers’ salaries adjusted to market trends and inflation. Our employees don’t need to change jobs in order to get a fair salary increase. Together with your manager you will create personal development plans and review twice a year so that everyone has a chance to discuss their opportunities, growth and potential.

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

Basic Qualifications
2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
-We are looking for a committed Software Engineer who wishes to progress your career in a fast moving, international company. You’re keen to work in a collaborative, honest and agile environment. You also invest time in your own, and the team's development to build up your overall knowledge.
We would like you to have
- Some experience on a similar position.
- Backend development experience in Java or Go.
- Experience with cloud technologies, terraform tooling and Kubernetes.
- Experience in CI/CD is a big plus.
- Experience with a fast-paced environment that is product centric.
- Experience working with agile methodologies and understand the value of tracking engineering key metrics.
You might also have experience from working with
- Distributed systems.
- Infrastructure as Code (we use Terraform).
- Observability technologies (eg. Datadog).
- SRE practices.
- Traffic routing / Service meshes.
- Authentication and Authorisation platforms.

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.