Graduate Software Engineer

Visa
Cambridge, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Junior

Job location

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Clean Code Principles
Java
ActiveMQ
API
Databases
Data Structures
Software Debugging
RabbitMQ
Event Driven Architecture
Information Technology
Kafka

Job description

Technical Growth

We don't expect you to know everything, we expect you to be curious, proactive, and eager to improve. You will:

  • Solve well defined problems with guidance and progressively move toward more complex challenges.
  • Build a solid understanding of our internal tools, architecture, and development workflows.
  • Strengthen your engineering fundamentals, including testing, debugging, data structures, and clean code practices.
  • Deliver high quality work on scoped tasks in collaboration with senior engineers.
  • Take ownership of parts of a feature lifecycle as your confidence grows.

Ways of Working

  • Communicate progress clearly and seek help when needed.
  • Make steady, thoughtful progress, balancing autonomy with collaboration.
  • Actively learn from peers, participate in conversations, and ask questions to deepen your understanding.
  • Accept feedback constructively and contribute to a positive, respectful team culture.
  • Develop the time management habits needed to work effectively in a professional environment.

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

Requirements

Do you have experience in Organizational skills?, * Recent graduate with a relevant STEM degree (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Maths)

  • Ability to read and write code in at least one programming language (Java welcomed but not required).
  • Awareness of algorithms, data structures, and fundamental computer science concepts.
  • A strong willingness to learn, experiment, and build new skills quickly.
  • Good organisational skills and the ability to manage your own time effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with databases
  • Experience with HTTP APIs or service based architectures.
  • Familiarity with messaging or event driven systems (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka, ActiveMQ).
  • Exposure to cloud platforms or automation tooling.
  • Qualities We Value

We care deeply about how we work. Our values reflect the culture we've built and the environment you'll be joining:

Pride in craft, attention to detail, and commitment to quality. Curiosity: a desire to understand the "why," not just the "what." A growth mindset: openness to learning, improving, and taking on feedback. Willingness to share knowledge and contribute to team success. A collaborative, positive, can do attitude. Enthusiasm for working within a high innovation team inside one of the most trusted brands in global payments.

About the company

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you., Following our acquisition by Visa, Featurespace continues to operate as a high impact innovation hub, building advanced financial crime prevention technology that protects consumers and businesses globally. We combine the agility and curiosity of a product focused scale up with the reach, resources and global mission of Visa. It's the best of both worlds: a collaborative, learning driven environment where engineers can see the direct impact of their work backed by the stability and influence of a world leading payments company. If you're an early career engineer who wants to learn fast, build meaningful technology, and contribute to systems used worldwide, we'd love to meet you.

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