Sr. Consultant Software Engineer (lead)

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.

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity: 

This role is an ideal fit for a developer and self-motivated individual with excellent software engineering skills and technical leadership skills.

As a Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant level with Visa You Will

• Be at the forefront of translating complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.
• Have significant influence on our strategy by helping define and build the next wave of product features and system architecture.
• Champion Agile to drive change and continuous improvement throughout the delivery process.
• Utilise your sharp design and coding skills to create applications at a massive scale which are used by millions of people across the globe.
• Take a hands-on role in influencing and guiding day-to-day development activities by leading architecture decisions, participating in designs, design review, code review, and implementation.
• Be motivated by building elegant and maintainable systems that get the job done with minimal complexity.
• Be the ambassador for engineering best practice across the development lifecycle and champion continuous improvement across the organisation.
• Be an evangelist for Test-Driven Development and Continuous Deployment.

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/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Basic Qualifications
• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• Possess strong computer science credentials as well as a track record of building quality services.
• Be equally passionate about technology and solving large-scale complex business problems.
• Have a proven-track record within a technical lead role to produce innovative and simple solutions to complex problems.
• Be an established self-starter who possesses a relentless drive to initiate change, raise the technical bar and deliver results.
• Have expert knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle.
• Be highly proficient with some of the following Languages, Frameworks & Technologies: Java, Spring, JavaScript, Hibernate, Tomcat, REST, HTTP, JSON, JUnit, TestNG, Mockito, Jenkins, Maven, Git and Docker.
• Be comfortable challenging the norm and always on the lookout for new technologies and work with fellow technologists to implement these into the work stream.
• Be equally content prototyping and tinkering with new applications as well operating within the rigour of making solutions production-ready.
• Be a passionate advocate for nurturing talent within Visa through technical coaching and mentoring.

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.