Senior Software Engineer – Featurespace

Job title:

Senior Software Engineer – Featurespace

Company

Visa

Job description

Company DescriptionVisa 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.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 OpportunityIn your role as Senior Software Engineer you will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customer by:

• Collaborating with team members to develop new features and maintain the existing Java code base to support the ARIC UI
• Supporting the teams’ efforts to ensure software dependencies remain up-to-date and vulnerability free
• Supporting the team’s investigation and resolution of customer issues, including leading co-ordination where necessary
• Providing Java and agile software development expertise

Role ResponsibilitiesAs 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.

• 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
• Leads significant portions of projects and makes impactful contributions
• Capable of driving technical initiatives and leading resolution of critical bugs
• Identifies solutions to larger problems with assistance from peers
• Takes part in the process of interviewing, recruitment, and onboarding within their team
• Takes full ownership of projects and ensures success
• Regularly mentors other engineers, particularly those less experienced than themselves
• Able to support onboarding of new engineers into their team
• Proactively seeks and gives timely, actionable feedback in their team
• Promotes good practises and helps other engineers deepen their knowledge
• Confidence in judgement and design making, pulls in support from around the company where needed

This is a hybrid position with the expectation of 3 days per week in the Cambridge office.QualificationsRequired experience:

• Demonstrable experience in a software engineering position
• Ability to manage and prioritise your own workload
• Modern IDEs, source control and continuous integration systems
• Experience of designing and developing scalable distributed applications
• Knowledge of patterns and their trade-offs in a distributed environment
• Comfortable working with large codebases
• External API integration
• Code profiling and performance tuning

Great to have:

• Experience of relational and /or NoSQL databases for large datasets
• Web services – HTTP API development
• Message queuing systems – RabbitMQ / ActiveMQ / Kafka
• Cloud platforms and automation

Additional InformationVisa 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.

Expected salary

Location

Cambridge

Job date

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:24:18 GMT

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