Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Visa's FX Core team at Currencycloud, part of Visa Direct/VXBS, and contribute to building the next generation trading platform. You will design, build, and maintain core FX trading capabilities, providing technical guidance and mentorship. This role involves working on high-volume transaction software, influencing company architecture, and collaborating with QA engineers. The position requires a genuine interest in finance and technology, strong problem-solving skills, and a passion for continuous improvement. This is a remote position, offering flexibility and the opportunity to work with experienced engineers on a challenging and impactful project.

Requirements

Relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or a PhD

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the next generation trading platform
• Design, build and maintain core FX trading capabilities
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members
• Influence wider company architecture
• Work alongside QA engineers, who build and maintain a vast collection of automated testing scenarios

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building microservices with Scala and Java
• Proficient in other programming languages, ideally being comfortable reading Java or Ruby
• Working knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres
• Experience designing event based and streaming solutions using Kafka
• Experience building applications that run in Kubernetes
• Strong SQL knowledge, ability to understand and write complex queries
• Competence working in codebase written in a functional and non-functional programming style
• Good understanding of concurrency programming models. Especially under JVM
• Knowledge of building distributed systems
• Ability to conduct thoughtful code reviews
• Ability to read other programming languages
• Experience producing technical documentation in written and visual form
• If you have experience using libraries such as cats, cats-effect, doobie, http4s – is a massive advantage
• Experience working with Spring Boot is an advantage as well

Benefits

This is a remote position