Tech Lead

Company Description 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 Currencycloud was acquired by Visa in December 2021 Our Technical Lead Software Engineers are responsible for implementing an industry-leading API that has already processed over 50 billion USD of cross-border transactions for over 5 million end users and is available to our clients 24x7 But we re not stopping there and our engineers are at the forefront of taking us forward to meet the demands of even greater scale Our stack runs on AWS as a set of distributed applications using Kubernetes and a microservice-led architecture We are also utilising Kafka for our streaming and PACT for Contract testing What you ll get to do As a Technical Lead Software Engineer you ll play a key role within your cross functional team taking responsibility for your services and the technology within them These roles fit in to squads who are building out brand new parts to our payments platform focusing on high availability cloud native microservice concepts You ll get to work as the Lead Engineer in your squad leading on discussions around technical direction and systems design as well as mentoring more junior members of the team You ll get Clear ownership of your domain A clean modern codebase An independent path to production Strong platform and product support The ability to make real changes with real business value Our Tech Stack includes Object-oriented programming forms the bulk of our codebase currently in Java versions 11 and ideally Springboot framework Highly-scalable highly-available cloud-native applications on AWS are key to our next phase of growth are written to 12-factor principles and fit into our microservices architecture Cloud-related tools services and distributed system observability to support these applications such as Docker Kubernetes ElasticSearch log management systems and Datadog APM to name but a few API specifications conforming to the OpenAPI Swagger standard provide a clean boundary both externally between our customers and our product and internally between our microservices SQL and large SQL databases provide the persistence layer for our applications You ll be working with and know the limitations of using such large datastores Infrastructure automation is primarily owned by the infrastructure team but you will be a consumer of their work familiarity with AWS Terraform and Docker is beneficial Testing approaches including TDD BDD and Contract Testing all form an important part of our approach to quality assurance ensuring that the code that we write forms products that are fit for use We currently use a variety of frameworks including JUnit RSpec and Cucumber Agile development with teams broadly aligned with the Spotify - Squads and Tribes - model helps us deliver incremental improvements to our products in an iterative manner Advocating this model and joining us on a journey of continuous improvement is a key attribute of members of our teams Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines allow us to automate-all-the-things providing repeatable builds and consistent deployments GitHub and the GitHub PR review process forms a core part of our developer workflow and peer reviews help share knowledge and improve quality Teamwork and cross-team collaboration is fundamental to the delivery of our applications Whilst each application has an independent path to production there will always be some activities and initiatives that span multiple teams and require cross-team collaboration Within your team you ll need to collaborate with a number of stakeholders including Product Owners and QA as part of your product development This is a hybrid position Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager Qualifications Basic Qualifications 8 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree e g Masters MBA JD MD or 2 years of work experience with a PhD OR 11 years of relevant work experience Preferred Qualifications 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree e g Masters MBA JD MD or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD 5 years experience in Java Backend Development Skills with functional Java versions 8 and Spring ideally Springboot Agile ways of working such as Scrum or Kanban in cross-functional teams Expert knowledge of Docker EKS AWS public cloud and Kafka Ability to communicate equally effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders Modern Cloud-Native architectures and practices To name some high-availability high-scalability microservices 12-factor apps CI CD heavy testing automation and observability TDD BDD and Contract testing Working in a DevOps environment or passion and willingness to work in this way Proven delivery of well-tested scalable fault-tolerant and performant solutions A pragmatic approach to solutions and delivery of technical projects A self-starter who takes accountability for getting things done Pragmatism in decision making and ability to get buy-in for ideas and getting them done Exceptional structure and attention to detail Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work Great written and verbal communication skills Comfortable working in a scale-up or growth environment and as part of a wider team 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