Software Engineer - Featurespace

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

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 working with product teams to specify, design and deliver bespoke functionality, providing tactical software solutions outside the normal development cycle to support integration efforts. You will support product and project teams in integrating ARIC with internal and third-party systems, developing new functionality as needed; reviewing and investigating Engineering Triage requests, either addressing directly or referring to other Engineering teams.

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.

Technical

• Ability to write high quality code independently.
• Solve moderately complex problems with minimal guidance.
• Take responsibility for the quality of your work. Own and action fixing defects.
• Demonstrate awareness of key non-functional principles in your discipline / domain, and evidence of actioning them.

Impact

• Self-sufficient in at least one large area of the codebase with a high-level understanding of other components.
• Break down medium sized engineering problems in collaboration with more senior engineers.

Behaviour

• Ability to own small-to-medium features from technical design through to completion.
• Give direct feedback to others in your team, including giving useful and actionable feedback after reviewing their work.
• Proactively document existing and new features or projects.
• Display attention to detail to ensure accuracy and precision in your work.
• Able to quickly adapt to changing priorities, requirements, and constraints.
• Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning and professional development.

This is a hybrid position, therefore we require 3 days per week in the Cambridge office.

Qualifications

Required experience:

• Ability to manage and prioritise your own workload.
• Modern IDEs, source control and continuous integration systems.
• Experience of designing and developing scalable distributed applications.
• Knowledge of patterns and their trade-offs in a distributed environment.
• Comfortable working with large codebases.
• External API integration.
• Code profiling and performance tuning.

Great to haves:

• Web services – HTTP API development.
• Message queuing systems – RabbitMQ / ActiveMQ / Kafka.
• Cloud platforms and automation.

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): Cambridge, United Kingdom

Job ID: 9e0addae-acef-4a95-b8cd-93e3bb0bda6b

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-11T13:21:55