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Job 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. Job Description About the role Currencycloud was acquired by Visa in December 2021. Our Java 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 Java 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: - 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 & 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 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience Preferred Qualifications 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) 3+ 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 Knowledge of Docker, EKS, AWS (public cloud) and Kafka 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.