Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack (Java and React) - job 1 of 2

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: 

As part of the Ecosystem and Operational Risk (EOR) product development team,  in this position, you will be an individual team member of Enterprise Risk engineering  team contributing to the designing, developing and managing next generation solutions, platforms with innovative technologies to meet needs of enterprise risk product team. As SME, configure and customize package solutions to fulfill the requirements from product. The position is based in Foster City, CA USA

Essential Functions:

• Working closely with engineering leads, engineers, product manager, architects and team members, one should lead product development throughout the entire development cycle. This role requires logical thinking, possesses a breadth of knowledge on applying technology, quick troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills

• ·Consistently apply sound engineering practices leading to improved business outcomes

• Mentor team members. Conducts project level design reviews and guides the team through adjustments if necessary

• Work closely with product owners, architects, and product managers to drive and facilitate feature, user story grooming, functional and technical specifications, workflow designs and use cases.

• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and proactively assess and evaluate the adoption thereof into the organization

• Perform proof of concepts and other technical evaluations on new technologies, designs, and solutions

• Be flexible to accommodate cross region team development time and address urgent production issues

• Act as Subject Matter Expert and contribute to requirement gathering, conduct gap analysis

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
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

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
5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD

Experience in building, configuring, customizing and deploying packaged solutions like IBM OpenPages in enterprise risk domain is added plus.

Experience in building, deploying and managing scalable enterprise applications in Java/ .Net technologies is preferred

Knowledge of and experience with python and data transformations with packages is proffered

Exposure to GenAI technologies, LLM’s and experience in developing applications using GenAI tools is a plus

Experience in Identity solutions like oAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, security tokens (JWS, JWE, access token, id token) or other IAM is a big plus.

 Proven analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to respond resourcefully to new demands, priorities, and challenges.

In-depth knowledge in web services standards and related technologies, REST API, Microservices, Containers.

Experience in building connectors using API's with internal and external systems is a plus

Solid understanding of database technologies including SQL, DB2 preferred.

Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and leadership skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills.

Ability to present ideas precisely and convey development concepts related to network, application, and systems to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Strong team player and the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams and across geographies.

Passionate about learning and taking on new initiatives and takes pride in delivering quality software.

Proficiency with Agile Development Techniques

Knowledge of and experience working in risk domain is preferred

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 138,500.00 to 200,700.00 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.