Staff Software Engineer - Java - job 1 of 5

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.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to the Payments area within Visa Open banking. 
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 to 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.   

The Work itself: 

• Work with technologies which is mainly Java, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Datadog, REST and much more. 

• Develop reliable, scalable, high performance and highly distributed open banking payments products for different markets using your technical expertise. 

• Innovate around new features and measure how these features perform, being instrumental in bringing the product vision to life. 

• Collaborate and build high-quality Payment products by following best engineering practices. 

• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads 
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services. 

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
• Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance.
• Applies standard processes on the use of Java programming language to write code that fulfills technical requirements. 
• Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
• Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have strong team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology 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 3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site).

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.
• Experience of working with agile methodologies and understand the value of tracking engineering key metrics 
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions
• Language Expertise: Expertise in Java development language and experience of working with DevOps methodologies and tools.
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern micro-services with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Java, Spring, Kubernetes, Datadog, etc.

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.