Staff Software Engineer

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.

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Job Description

Tink, delivering Open Open Banking Solutions as a part of Visa, is building an open banking platform that enables banks, fintechs and startups to develop data-driven financial services. Through one API, Tink allows customers to access aggregated financial data, initiate payments, enrich transactions and build personal finance management tools. Tink connects to more than 3,400 banks that reach over 250 million bank customers across Europe and other global markets. Our solutions are ready-to-go products, each developed to solve specific problems and bring value to both businesses and their customers.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Connectivity markets area. Connectivity teams develop software agents integrating data from 3400+ financial institutions. They ultimately focus on continual service improvements and enable real-time transactions and payment processing in the EU and other global markets and provide seamless authentication flows.

You'll be responsible for developing integrations with financial institutes helping consumers to aggregate their financial data from all of their banks and credit cards. It means integrating with both documented and undocumented APIs, developing smart and effective tools to help us automate integrations, monitoring and alerting.

What you will do:

• Work with high load systems with high uptime requirements, including on-call shifts.
• Lead the end-to-end design and architecture of a new systems, ensuring it meets the highest standards of scalability, reliability, and performance
• Work with Tink's technologies which is mainly Java, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, SQL, Datadog and much more.
• Build components that integrate with banks' APIs and fetch consumers' data.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence

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

Qualifications

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer with experience of building innovative and scalable products. You understand the trade-offs of speed vs quality on technical decisions and look at problems from different angles. You also invest time in your own, and the team's development to build up your overall knowledge.

We would like you to have:

• Extensive experience leading technical strategy and architecture for new systems and enhancing and modernizing legacy systems
• Proven experience as a strong Senior/Staff engineer, leading technical teams in fintech and fullstack/backend systems.
• Experience working with JAVA, kubernetes, AWS, devOps methodologies and tooling
• Experience with a fast-paced environment that is product centric
• Experience working with agile methodologies and understand the value of tracking engineering key metrics
• Experience from duties including operational excellence and on-call is a bonus.
• Strong understanding of both backend and frontend systems in Open Banking will be a bonus.

Additional Information

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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.