Senior Software Engineer – Risk & FX

Overview

In this role you will design, build, and maintain mission-critical FX trading services within Visa’s Currency Cloud platform. You’ll join the FXRA team responsible for core FX trading, pricing, risk, and market data components. The work emphasizes high-throughput, low-latency systems that process large FX transactions in real time, leveraging cloud-native microservices. You will mentor engineers, champion best practices, and collaborate with Treasury, Trading, and Platform teams to deliver business value at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build and sustain FX trading services including pricing engines, risk management, and market data providers
• Integrate real-time FX market data from providers via FIX
• Design high-throughput, low-latency services handling billions in FX transactions
• Lead technical discussions on hexagonal architecture, event-driven patterns, and distributed systems
• Mentor junior engineers and establish team best practices
• Own domain end-to-end with clear service boundaries and independent deployment paths
• Collaborate with Treasury, Trading, and Platform teams across the organization

Key requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• 2+ years building microservices with Java
• Proficient in Ruby or Scala (reading)
• Working knowledge of relational databases (MySQL)
• Experience designing event-based and streaming solutions with Kafka
• Experience building applications that run in Kubernetes
• Hands-on production-grade code delivery
• Experience managing contractors and outsource teams
• Experience in financial software, especially risk, is beneficial
• Agile experience and multi-language proficiency; strong SQL skills
• DevOps experience or willingness to work in a DevOps environment
• Proven track record of delivering well-tested, scalable, fault-tolerant solutions
• Excellent communication and collaboration in distributed, scale-up environments
• Comfortable code reviews and challenging status quo

• collaboration
• strong written and verbal communication
• attention to detail
• Java 11+ and Spring Boot
• Kubernetes and Docker
• AWS cloud

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