Graduate Software Engineer

Visaitalia; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in Cambridge is seeking a Software Engineer to enhance their financial crime fighting technology. Candidates should hold a relevant STEM degree and possess experience in object-oriented programming. The role involves developing scalable applications and contributing to innovative solutions with a team of experts. This hybrid position offers the opportunity to work remotely with occasional days in the office.

Qualifications

• Recent graduate with a relevant STEM degree.
• Experience designing and developing applications in any object-oriented language.
• Understanding of the full SDLC, including source control, testing, and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for analytical technology that is fast, flexible, and easy to use.
• Implementing data intensive applications and machine learning components.
• Championing software engineering process and process improvements.

Skills

Analytical technology

Object-oriented programming

Secure software development

Large codebases

Data intensive applications

Education

Relevant STEM degree (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering)

Tools

Java

Tensorflow

PyTorch

Linux environment

Job description

Visa are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic Software Engineer to join our Featurespace team. You will work on our industry-leading financial crime fighting technology, making the world a safer place to transact alongside our existing team of innovators and experts.

We are looking for individuals who can deliver and maintain a robust product across the full software development life cycle.

You will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customers by:

• Being responsible for analytical technology that is fast, flexible, and easy to use.
• Implementing data intensive applications and machine learning components, enabling Analytics teams to deliver state-of-the-art models in a timely manner.
• Optimising and scaling modelling workflows required to build analytics for increasingly large datasets.
• Implementing new features within ARIC (our software platform) that improve the modelling lifecycle of analytics.

It is first and foremost an engineering role – enabling users to create machine learning and analytics solutions.

Day to Day Responsibilities

Core responsibilities of all members of the team include:

• Improving workflows for designing, deploying, and maintaining analytics
• Engineering optimized and maintainable data intensive applications
• Championing software engineering process and process improvements
• Providing support for mission critical services deployed to production including an on-call rota

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

Basic Qualifications

• Recent graduate with a relevant STEM degree (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Maths)
• Experience designing and developing applications in any object‑oriented language
• Understanding of the full SDLC, including source control, testing and code reviews
• Comfortable working with large codebases
• Knowledge of secure software development practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing applications in Java
• Knowledge of the lifecycle around training and deploying machine learning models
• Knowledge of parallel and distributed computing
• Knowledge of database architectures and data layouts for efficient processing
• Experience with real‑time event processing systems
• Experience with performance tuning and profiling
• Ability to design information rich tools in a user-friendly way
• Understanding and use of GenAI technologies in a secure software development lifecycle
• Experience with machine learning frameworks such as Tensorflow or PyTorch
• Experience with working in a Linux environment

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.