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Staff Software Engineer II (Backend, Java)

Company Description

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.

Job Description

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: 

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale.  As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.   

Essential Functions:

  • Designs and develops enhancements to existing software and guides the development of code that complies with design specifications and meets security best practices.
  • Engages with solution engineering teams and product owners across teams by leading code/design reviews.
  • Leverages back-end technical expertise on underlying systems/platforms across teams and telemetry analyses to propose scalable improvements in code, processes, and designs with an emphasis on customer/business objectives.
  • Designing and implementing test automation code to ensure high-quality software delivery.
  • Developing, testing, and documenting software programs.
  • Developing micro services using Java, Sprint boot, Kafka and MySQL.         
  • Applying the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of engineering applications and products.
  • Supporting and/or installs software applications/operating systems.
  • Performing code reviews to verify changes meet development requirements and deploying and staging code in development environments.
  • Developing database queries, or code that generates queries and fixes bugs found in existing codebases.
  • Contributing to authoring large project deployment procedures.
  • Developing large applications independently and designing multi-tier solutions.
  • Producing highly scalable, high performing applications.

The Skills You Bring:

**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. 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.

Qualifications

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
  • Desire to work with and share new and innovative ideas, constantly expanding your knowledge.
  • Analytical, strong organization and planning skills.
  • Ability to work on complex technical and business problems while creative solutions.
  • 7+ years of experience with Core Java and Java web application development for RESTful web services.
  • 5+ years of years of strong knowledge w/ Spring Framework, Sprint boot and Build Tools, such as Maven.
  • 7+ years of strong knowledge in accessing data using Spring Data, JPA and JDBC.
  • Strong OOP Design Skills and experience with design patterns..
  • Ability to understand and author APIs.
  • 3+ years of working knowledge in Reactive and Event drive programming using Kafka.
  • Practice in Test-driven Development.
  • Good knowledge in multi-threading and concurrency.
  • Experience with CI/CD using Jenkins , Docker, Kubernetes.
  • Working with Checkmarx, Qualys, Aqua and similar code/system scanners and remediation for security focused development.
  • Strong knowledge in optimizing SQL, Stored Procedure is a plus.
  • Profession experience in using ETL tool Clover DX to implement import and export data flows.
  • Experience working with API automation with Java based frameworks (Rest Assured, TestNg or JUnit) or JavaScript based frameworks (Jasmine or Jest).
  • Experience in AI/ML is a plus.

Additional Information

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 143,200.00 to 207,800.00 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.

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Visa Inc. operates as a payments technology company worldwide. The company facilitates commerce through the transfer of value and information among consumers, merchants, financial institutions, businesses, strategic partners, and government entiti...

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