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Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nOverview:\nWe’re looking for a Software Engineer to join the engineering team working on Featurespace SaaS, a Visa solution for fraud and financial crime prevention.\nYou’ll work alongside experienced engineers to develop, test and operate cloud-native software running in AWS. This is a hands-on engineering role with opportunities to work across application development, cloud services, data processing and platform technologies.\nYou don’t need to know our entire technology stack when you join. 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