Software Engineer - Featurespace

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.

At Visa, we are passionate about making a difference. We lead the way in disrupting fraud from multiple vectors. In this role you will be joining an exciting, innovative business new to the Visa family.

At 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 Opportunity

As a Software Engineer, you will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customer by developing services and infrastructure for our global, multi-tenant SaaS platform. You will cooperate with engineers working across the product to deliver new, cross-cutting functionality and to maintain and update existing systems.

Working with internal stakeholders to understand and specify product requirements, whilst learning and becoming knowledgeable about cloud infrastructure and managed cloud services. You will write and monitor automated tests to ensure the correct functionality of systems owned by your team. This role requires you to participate in an on-call rota to support the production services owned by your team (including out-of-hours support where required).

Responsibilities       

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.

• Delivering new features with some supervision: from specification, through development, and into final deployment.
• Being aware of how your work fits in with the team’s area of responsibility and contributes to the team’s goals.
• Performing code reviews.                   
• Communicating progress regularly whilst identifying any blocking issues and escalating where required.
• Building and maintaining good knowledge of the team’s area of responsibility and engineering processes.
• Contributing to and working on cross-functional features and bugs.        
• Providing input into future technological development and improvements to your team’s workflow.

This is a hybrid position, with the expectation of 3 days per week in the office.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 months of work experience or a Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 or more years of work experience; or Bachelor’s Degree without experience

Required experience:

• Ability to manage and prioritise your own workload.
• Experience working with modern IDEs, source control and continuous integration systems.
• Comfortable working with large codebases.
• Comfortable learning and working with multiple programming languages.
• Knowledge of common automated testing practices.
• Experience with object-oriented programming, preferably in Java.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 79,900.00 to 113,000.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.