Staff Software Engineer - Java Backend

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.

Platform Product development is going through transformation to drive adoption for Click to Pay across multiple regions with more authentication mechanism and payment features. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be integral part of this transformation and will be solving challenging business problems and build highly scalable and available applications that provide an excellent user experience. Here are key responsibilities of the role -

• Design, document and implement new systems, as well as enhancements and modifications to existing software with code that complies with design specifications and meets security and Java best practices.
• Interact with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high quality products and services that meet business requirements and expectations while applying the latest available tools and technology
• Have a passion for delivering zero defect code and be responsible for ensuring the team's deliverables meet or exceed business expectations
• Identify opportunities for product innovation and strive for improvements to best practices, standards and processes
• Mentor junior developers to ensure deliverables are on time with good code quality
• Coordinate Continuous Integration activities, testing automation frameworks and other related items in addition to contributing core product code
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms.
• Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner
• Full-stack development – contribute to the design of backend DBs and queries, API creation and consumption, and contribute to front end UI development 
• Works independently with minimal insight to develop software that conforms to Visa’s high standards of security, quality, performance, resiliency, and compliance. 
• Takes ownership and is responsible for the design and delivery of one or more components of a project 
• Provides oversight and guidance to team members contributing to those components 
• Independently create multiple design artifacts for projects and present designs to team members and other stakeholders 
• Provides mentorship and guidance to more junior team members 
• Work with Technical Product Managers to break down solutions into smaller achievable tasks 
• Support test engineers and operation teams in troubleshooting, defect research, issue root cause analysis, and other related activities 

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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% 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:-

• 8-11 years of experience with at least 2 years in a lead role mentoring juniors.
• Expert in JAVA
• Expert in building and consuming REST APIs
• Expert knowledge with Spring Technologies
• Expert in diagramming solutions (flow, block, logical)
• Knowledge of Security and Authentication standards and technologies like OAuth
• Comfortable in delivering presentations with small to medium size forums
• Experience with JavaScript and front-end technologies/frameworks like JQuery, ReactJS, Angular
• Experience architecting solutions that is secure, resilient, and scalable
• Experience in building out a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline
• Knowledgeable about Database technologies like Oracle and NoSQL solutions
• Knowledgeable about network architecture, VIPS, and Firewalls
• Experience in containerization and container orchestration technology.
• Experience with a Relational database and NoSQL database
• Experience in messaging system and distributed technology.
• Experience in React or Advanced JavaScript is desirable.
• Experience in GIT, Maven, Jenkins or such build automation tools
• Strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and iterative software development lifecycle principles

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.