Staff Data Engineer - job 5 of 50

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 has become a very active hot area in the last couple of years, creating a strong demand for innovation. This will be a very exciting area in the next 5 to 10 years. Not only is VISA a leader in the payment industry and has been for a long time, but it is also quickly transitioning into a technology company that is fostering an environment for applying the latest technology to solve exciting problems in this area.

Visa AI as a Service,AIaS operationalizes the delivery of AI and decision intelligence to ensure their ongoing business values. Built with composable AI capabilities, privacy-enhancing computation, and cloud native platforms, AIaS automates the updates to data, models, and applications. Combined with strong AI governance, AIaS optimizes the performance, scalability, interpretability and reliability of AI models and services. If you want to be in the exciting payment and AI space, learn fast, and make big impacts, Visa AI as a Service is an ideal place for you

This position is for a Lead ML Engineer with solid development experience who will focus on creating new capabilities for AI as a Service while maturing our code base and development processes. In this position, you are first a passionate and talented developer that can work in a dynamic environment as a member of Agile Scrum teams.  Your strong technical leadership, problem-solving abilities, coding, testing and debugging skills is just a start.  You must be dedicated to filling product backlog and delivering production ready code.  You must be willing to go beyond the routine and prepared to do a little bit of everything.

You will be an integral part of the development team, sometimes investigating new requirements and design and at times refactoring existing functionality for performance and maintainability, but always working on ways to make us more efficient and provide better solutions to our end customers. The role is for a self organized individual with knowledge of web application and web service development. The candidate will perform hands-on activities including design, documentation, development and test of new functionality. Candidate must be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on team’s needs.

This position will be based in Bangalore, India. If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit for both of us.

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

Basic Qualifications
-7 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at
an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 5 years of work experience with a PhD
-Experience working on distributed microservices systems.
-Development experience with Golang (alternatively a strong background in
C/C++ or Java or Go/Rust)
-Experience in real-time streaming systems (Spark/Flink/Kafka/Ray Streaming)
-Skilled with Docker & Kubernetes and hands on Ansible/CI CD pipelines
-Experience using and configuring operational tools such as Splunk, Humio,
Prometheus & Grafana
-Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development using
Big Data Hadoop, J2EE and Spark with large data volumes and transaction
systems
-Possesses a deep understanding of benefits or drawbacks of different
integration patterns
-Experience with GIT,Stash, Maven and Jenkins
-Experience in DynamoDB, Enterprise Redis DB or Elastic Search on Unix or
Linux platform
-Ability to solve complex software development, design issues
-Ability to write clean, coherent code following established coding guidelines
-Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and effective communication skills both
written and verbal and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise
way
-Experience developing as part of Agile or Scrum team is preferred
-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
deliverables
-Ability to deliver on multiple projects and manage priorities based on changing
directions
-Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented
-Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity
-Past experience in Payments knowledge is preferred

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.