Lead Software Engineer - job 1 of 2

Are you passionate about creating world-class B2B data solutions and products that serve six markets and over 50 countries, driving growth and innovation? With a wealth of data at your fingertips, theres immense potential to uncover insights, architect state of the art data platforms, and develop cutting edge applications.

Commercial and Money Movement Solutions, one of the fastest-growing areas within Visa, is seeking a dynamic Lead Software Engineer for our Product Development team.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in leading large and complex projects, designing mission-critical, high-volume, low-latency services, and providing hands-on development and mentorship to engineering leads. You will collaborate closely with product partners to understand the business landscape, co-create solutions for Visas next-generation payment network, and strategically guide our team to architect, design, and deliver the platform in a phased approach.

Join us in shaping the future of payments!

Responsibilities:

• Implement highly scalable, low-latency, high-throughput systems with 99.999% availability.
• Design key cross-team and cross-product projects through architecture documents and key module development.
• Establish software development patterns and best practices by providing examples and shipping code.
• Ensure all engineering teams follow common principles, patterns, and use standard frameworks and libraries.
• Lead the engineering community to build solutions aligned with platform principles and standards.
• Mentor and build high-performing engineering teams.
• Apply architecture best practices to enhance execution velocity.
• Develop secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric, and global architectures.
• Influence technology selection for the enterprise.
• Define deployment topology in collaboration with peers.
• Optimize the use of Visas Platforms and Solutions.
• Provide thought leadership through presentations and teaching across Visa.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week determined by leadership or site, with a general guidepost of being in the office 50 percent or more of the time based on business needs.

Basic Qualifications
10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
Experienced technology leader with 12 years in software development and 3 years in application architecture.
Expertise in designing large-scale platforms and applications with simple solutions.
Proficient in Java, Spring, and Spring Boot with strong coding skills to quickly create solid prototypes or core components.
Strong background in high-performance, scalable service development, Object-Oriented design, and development.
Experience with SQL and NoSQL technologies, Web Services REST and SOAP, Microservices, and Service-Oriented Architecture.
Skilled in JavaScript frameworks - React, Angular and AJAX.
Knowledgeable in distributed application performance engineering, mobile app development, database design, middleware, UI development, and information security.
Proven track record of leading architecture work for large-scale projects with significant business impact.
Familiar with agile and other development methodologies.
Strategic thinker who can identify patterns, anticipate trends, and respond proactively to opportunities.
Proficient in application architecture, solutions architecture, and software systems architecture. Self-motivated, fast learner with a strong understanding of new and advanced technologies.
Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying architectural concepts to various organizational levels.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or advanced degree is a plus.

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.