Staff Software Engineer

Visa; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in Cambridge is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to collaborate on ARIC features, coordinate technical solutions, and mentor junior engineers. This hybrid position offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for innovation and problem-solving. The ideal candidate has robust experience in distributed applications and technical mentorship, with a focus on quality delivery and team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of patterns in a distributed environment.
• Comfortable working with large codebases.
• Ability to manage and prioritize workload.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams on ARIC features.
• Coordinate team investigations and resolutions.
• Provide technical mentorship to UI engineers.

Skills

Knowledge of modern IDEs

Experience of designing scalable applications

External API integration

Code profiling and performance tuning

Technical mentorship

Tools

MongoDB

Java 11 or later

Spring Boot

Job description

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 Role

In your role as Staff Software Engineer, you will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customer by:

Collaborating with Product and Project teams to determine, plan, create, and build ARIC features for our clients in a timely and consistent manner.

Coordinating the team\'s investigation, escalation, and resolution of customer concerns requiring technical expertise.

Helping with project coordination, task delegation, and peer review for UI-related projects.

Providing mentorship tothe team of UI engineers.

Role Responsibilities

As a company 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

Expert understanding of relevant technologies and ability to write optimized, scalable code.

Solves complex problems and helps others in debugging and resolving issues.

Seen as a code approver at a larger scale outside of scrum team.

Improves areas of the system they work on, leaves things better than they found them.

Impact

Consistently delivers significant contributions to projects and codebases.

Positively influences team outcomes through technical expertise.

Represents team on projects spanning multiple teams.

Technical authority on architecture and system design within team.

Behaviour

Takes ownership of tasks and projects.

Adapts quickly to new technologies and methodologies.

Prioritises tasks effectively to balance urgent and important work.

Communicates team progress against milestones at an appropriate cadence to relevant stakeholders.

Ensures the work is of high quality and meets department standards.

Delegates effectively, ensures tasks are completed as specified.

Makes independent decisions for the team.

This is a hybrid position, with the expectation being 3 days per week in the Cambridge office.

Qualifications

Required experience:

• Knowledge of modern IDEs, source control and continuous integration systems
• Experience of designing and developing scalable distributed applications, including fault tolerance, consistency models, and high availability
• Knowledge of patterns and their trade-offs in a distributed environment
• Comfortable working with large codebasesincluding refactoring strategies and techniques
• External API integration
• Code profiling and performance tuning
• Ability to manage and prioritise your own workload
• Knowledge of security best practices
• Root cause analysis of defects and outages
• Experience of technical mentorship, and architectural decision making

Great to have:

• Experience ofrelational and/orNoSQL databasessuch as MongoDBfor large datasets,including query optimization, and indexing strategies
• Cloud platforms and automation
• SSO systems such as SAML and OIDC
• Proficiency in modern Java (version 11 or later) and Spring Boot.

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.