Lead SW Engineer - job 1 of 4

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Payments are a very exciting and fast-developing area with a lot of new and innovative ideas coming to market. With strong demand for new solutions in this space, it promises to be an exciting area of innovation for the next 5 to 10 years. VISA is a strong leader in the payment industry, and is rapidly transitioning into a technology company with significant investments in this area. If you want to be in the exciting payment space, learn fast and make big impacts, VISA Risk and Identity Solutions team (RaIS) is an ideal place for you!

RaIS team within VAS (Value added Services) organization is looking for curious, creative, and talented technologists to join our team. This position is ideal for an experienced software engineer who is passionate about collaborating with business and technology partners and engineers to solve challenging business problems. You will be the lead engineer of the Risk and Identity development team to design and build of software solutions that leverage data to solve critical and strategic business problems, build tools and services that safeguard Visa’s payment systems, including idea generation, architecture, design, development, and testing of products, applications, and services that provide Visa clients with solutions to detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud for Visa and Visa client payment systems. A successful candidate should have in-depth software engineering skills that can guide the other team members on day-to-day tasks, familiarity of software development cycles to communicate with stakeholders effectively, great learning capabilities that can zoom in and out of projects based on business needs, and broad knowledge of Database, J2EE and Web technologies.

Essential Functions

• Drive projects that involve full stack development using Java, Spring, Microservices, Rest based APIs, frontend frameworks like ReactJS and Spark/Scala based processing on Hadoop platform
• Drive solution architecture and technical architecture with product owners, engineers, and technical product managers to scale products to highly functional, secure, performant and resilient platforms.
• Drive development effort End-to-End for on-time delivery of high quality solutions that conform to requirements, conform to the architectural vision, and comply with all applicable standards. 
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner
• Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data driven solutions
• Drive release planning exercise, track development and testing to timely releases
• Collaborate with senior technical staff and PM to identify, document, plan contingency, track and manage risks and issues until all are resolved
• Work on emerging technologies, building distributed applications
• Guide and unblock other team members on day-to-day engineering tasks.
• Mentor/grow/hire the best engineers.

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 days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% 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
12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• Have had hands-on engineering experience architecting high performant platforms
• Technically savvy and have deep understanding about system architecture and design best practices from building client facing high performant systems with high SLAs
• Experience leading full stack development, using some of these technologies- Java, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, React JS, JavaScript, MongoDB, Maven, and Design Patterns, Test Automation framework
• Experience leading development on large data processing and transaction systems
• Have great work ethics, and be a team player striving to bring the best results as a team
• Experience leading development with engineers and teams in multiple geographical locations and time zones
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and effective communication skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way
• Be passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness of one’s own deliverables and team deliverables
• Be flexible to adapt to changing directions and priorities
• Proficiency in Java Spring boot and API security
• Proficiency in React JS is good to have or experience with Angular JS
• Proficiency in implementing design patterns and hands on knowledge of Spring, hibernate and RDBMS technologies like SQL Server, Oracle or similar and No SQL technology like MongoDB is preferred.
• Proven skills in technologies like Redis Cache, Tomcat, jQuery + kendo, NodeJS is preferred.
• Experience with web service standards and related patterns (REST, JSON)
• Experience with Agile development incorporating TDD, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, JUnit, Mock frameworks.
• Experience developing large scale, enterprise class distributed system or subsystems that require high availability, low-latency, & strong data consistency computing
• Experience implementing solutions for low-latency, distributed services using open standard technologies.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear & concise way, a team player with a strong work ethic

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 160,600.00 to 232,900.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.