Full Stack JavaScript Engineer

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.

Job Description

Currencycloud was acquired by Visa in December 2021. Our Full Stack Javascript Engineers are responsible for working on our frontend UI applications, integrating with industry-leading API that have already processed over 50 billion USD of cross-border transactions for over 5 million end users, and is available to our clients 24x7. We’re building an entirely new platform to allow our customers deeper access to their data and modernise how they send money cross boarders at a greater scale. 

Our stack runs on AWS as a set of distributed applications using Kubernetes and a microservice-led architecture. Our Frontends are build using NextJS and Nova, part of the Visa Product Design System.

 

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for versatile, curious, and energetic Full Stack JavaScript Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale.  As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions. 

 

The Work itself: 

• Work on a greenfield project build from scratch on NextJS
• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings 
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads 
• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions. 
• Build our in-house design component library allowing other teams to more effectively produce applications in-line with our Visa design
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities 

 

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrates basic knowledge and asks questions about project requirements.
• Reviews and asks questions about solution strategies that improve the design and functionality of a payment product feature.
• Applies standard processes on the use of front-end programming languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript) to write code that fulfils website modification requests and technical requirements, under close guidance.
• Works under close guidance from others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
• Identifies and advances bugs that threaten website functionality

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

 

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

Qualifications

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions
• Language Expertise: Strong expertise in JavaScript
• API-Development: Experience building Express backend applications to handle API requests
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

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.

Client-provided location(s): London, United Kingdom

Job ID: 522632c3-dafb-4b70-986f-907f43674e34

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-05T15:21:48