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Job DescriptionAt Featurespace, we strive to be the world’s best software company at protecting our clients and their customers from fraud attacks. We do that with personality, heart and professionalism, cultivating an innovative, fun and positive team atmosphere where everybody can contribute to solving our clients’ problems in new, innovative ways. We are always seeking to be the best at what we do and make our customers smile.
The Role
In your role as Staff Software Engineer, you will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customer by:
Collaborating with Product and Project teams to determine, plan, create, and build ARIC features for our clients in a timely and consistent manner.
Coordinating the team's investigation, escalation, and resolution of customer concerns requiring technical expertise.
Helping with project coordination, task delegation, and peer review for UI-related projects.
Providing mentorship to the team of UI engineers.
Role Responsibilities
As a company we hire people with a willingness to adapt to a variable role, so along with the key responsibilities below, we ask for ownership of any other duties as required.
Technical
Expert understanding of relevant technologies and ability to write optimized, scalable code.
Solves complex problems and helps others in debugging and resolving issues.
Seen as a code approver at a larger scale outside of scrum team.
Improves areas of the system they work on, leaves things better than they found them.
Impact
Consistently delivers significant contributions to projects and codebases.
Positively influences team outcomes through technical expertise.
Represents team on projects spanning multiple teams.
Technical authority on architecture and system design within team.
Behaviour
Takes ownership of tasks and projects.
Adapts quickly to new technologies and methodologies.
Prioritises tasks effectively to balance urgent and important work.
Communicates team progress against milestones at an appropriate cadence to relevant stakeholders.
Ensures the work is of high quality and meets department standards.
Delegates effectively, ensures tasks are completed as specified.
Makes independent decisions for the team.
This is a hybrid position, with the expectation being 3 days per week in the Cambridge office.
QualificationsRequired experience:
- Knowledge of modern IDEs, source control and continuous integration systems
- Experience of designing and developing scalable distributed applications , including fault tolerance, consistency models, and high availability
- Knowledge of patterns and their trade-offs in a distributed environment
- Comfortable working with large codebases including refactoring strategies and techniques
- External API integration
- Code profiling and performance tuning
- Ability to manage and prioritise your own workload
- Knowledge of security best practices
- Root cause analysis of defects and outages
- Experience of technical mentorship, and architectural decision making
Great to have:
- Experience of relational and/or NoSQL databases such as MongoDB for large datasets, including query optimization, and indexing strategies
- Web services – HTTP API development - Swagger / OpenAPI
- Message queuing systems – RabbitMQ / ActiveMQ / Kafka
- Cloud platforms and automation
- SSO systems such as SAML and OIDC
- Proficiency in modern Java (version 11 or later) and Spring Boot.
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.
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What We Do
At Visa, we are driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. As our products and technology have evolved with the world, Visa remains ubiquitous, reaching new customers in new and often invisible ways. We are at the center of this digital revolution with a network that connects people with over 80 million businesses all over the world. And Visa’s network is expanding, accelerating our growth. Our resilient business model, with its strong track record of success, will provide you with amazing opportunities to grow in your career, as well.
We are looking for people like YOU. Come join a people-centric company where you can invest in your career.
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Why Work With Us
Our employees are our company. Creating an inclusive and diverse workplace has been our key priority. With our purpose to “uplift everyone, everywhere” as our guide, we’re building an environment where diverse backgrounds and perspectives are celebrated and drive success inside our company and out in our communities.
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