Software Engineer, DevOps, Cloud Engineer - Software

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.

Working within the OVN Programme

As the world’s largest retail electronic payments network Visa customers trust us with ensuring that they can pay with security and confidence everywhere they want to be.

Network Processing looks after the systems that form the core of Visa, allowing consumers and merchants to connect with financial institutions and provide a seamless payment experience, the core mission of the OVN (Open Visa Net) team is to create the next generation of these core systems using the latest technologies to ensure we are able to maintain this trust going forward and ensure that Visa is ready for the challenges of the future.

We offer you the opportunity to be at the centre of innovation in the payments industry by joining us in the OVN team in Reading, where we are driving forward the implementation of the future of Visa.

If you think you could support Visa as a Staff Software Engineer, we want to hear from you – together, let’s make Visa a great place to work.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

What we’re after…

Building Open Visa Net will involve collaboration with an exceptional group of software engineers, security specialists, Dev Ops engineers, test automation engineers, designers, analysts, payment experts, and architects across multiple geographies.

Joining this team means working in an agile cross-functional development environment, combining development, test/QA, and analysis/design skills. The team is currently responsible for building key elements of the authorization application, which is a long-term delivery making use of a proprietary internal rules language alongside exposure to Go and Kafka in a Docker and Kubernetes micro-services environment when delivering services.

Exposure to these technologies with a deep understanding of one or more and a desire to learn more is essential. More products will be added over time, which could bring more technologies into the remit of the team, so flexibility and a desire to learn is key. As Go is an evolving language, candidates with a strong background in other languages (like C, C++ or Java) and a willingness to learn Go will be considered, with world-class training resources provided to support the transition.

Working across the full spectrum of software development (including requirements gathering, design, development, QA, and deployment) and being comfortable working/leading on multiple work streams is required.

Providing guidance to agile team members, acting as the design authority, and shaping best practices and ways of working within the team is a key aspect of this role. As a staff software engineer, leading specific project-level deliverables, maintaining stakeholder relationships with internal partners, and mentoring more junior members of the team will be expected.

Understanding the blend between technical, leadership, and payment industry knowledge is crucial for any senior technical role in the OVN Team at Visa. A willingness to learn and understand the highly complex intricacies of ISO Transaction Formats, business meanings, and specific fields alongside the complex interactions between them as business scenarios unfold is a sizable element of the role.

The role also requires providing 24x7 3rd line support to our mission-critical system with an availability SLA of 99.9999%. This includes being available to work outside standard office hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, as…