Sr. Staff SW Engineer - 14+ Yrs, Java Backend , Microservice - 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.

Commercial Money Movement Solutions (CMS) division's charter is to capture new sources of money movement through card and non-card flows, including Visa Business Solutions, Government Solutions and Visa Direct which presents an enormous growth opportunity. Our team brings payment solutions and associated services to clients around the globe. Our global clients and partners deploy our solutions to serve the needs of Small Businesses, Middle Market Clients, Large Corporate Clients, Multi Nationals and Governments. The Visa Business Solutions (VBS) and Visa Government Solutions (VGS) team is a world-class technology organization experiencing tremendous, double-digit growth as we expand products into new payment flows and continue to grow our core card solutions. This is an incredibly exciting team to join as we expand globally.

B2B Payables & Acceptance is part of Visa Business Solutions vertical of Visa's Technology organization. We are responsible tor designing, developing, and implementing Virtual Cards, payables, and acceptance commercial platforms to drive incremental revenue. We develop new offerings/products and enhance existing Visa Business Solutions product lines including Commercial data processing, B2B payables and acceptance platforms.

Essential Functions:

• Develop user-facing features and build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions.
• Develop and maintain server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
• Integrate the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application.
  Understand and implement data storage solutions including databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.
• Implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge across the team.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and apply them into operations and activities.
• Assist in the development of robust and user-friendly applications.
• Maintain documentation of the systems and applications developed.
• Manage and prioritize multiple projects concurrently.

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Basic Qualification:
•  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
•  Must be technically capable and a self-starter with strong organizational and customer service skills.
•  Prior experience in client success team in solving time sensitive issues
•  Knowledge in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is essential. Frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js are also important.
•  Understanding of both relational databases (like DB2, Oracle) and NoSQL databases (like MongoDB, Cassandra).
•  Familiarity with VCS like Git is important for tracking changes in code.
•  Knowledge of testing frameworks and practices
•  While not a strict requirement, understanding of basic principles of UI/UX design can be a huge plus.
•  Understanding of RESTful APIs and API Communications.
•  Knowledge of Web Services or Microservices.
•  Having full stack experience in front end technologies like React.js, JavaScript and back-end technologies and framework is plus.
•  Good to have experience in debugging and troubleshooting in Linux/Unix/Container bases application servers such as Tomcat, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices environment. Kafka is plus.
•  Lead root cause analysis of solving incidents as well as perform optimization and find proactive ways to detect or isolate the issues.
•  Ability to understand complex enterprise level systems, various integration points, good understanding of software development lifecycle and processes.
•  Engage with various stakeholders in triaging issues on time and provide precise and timely updates to stakeholders and Senior Management.

The Skills You Bring:

Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions
Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

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.