Staff Software Engineer - job 1 of 3

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.     

Job Description: 

As part of the Payment Product Development organization, you will be responsible for system development, implementation, maintenance and support of Visa's Clearing and Settlement systems, which clear, settle, and deliver transactions to issuer and acquirer financial institutions globally. Through this challenging job, you will gain experience collaborating with various parts of the business in understanding requirements for system enhancements, identifying areas of improvement and implementing changes to the system where it is needed. The product that you oversee will be of the highest quality meeting all requirements within the scheduled timeframe.

We are looking for a Senior Engineer with application design and development experience who will take ownership and/or lead the engineering responsibility for multiple components in a project. If you are a great team player, making sure that everyone on your team feels valued and is excited to work with you, VISA is the right place for you.

Experience in Java, Spring, SQL, and Linux is necessary. You will lead and encourage others to take risks, be bold, and innovate to create exceptional products that are both seamless for our clients and consumer facing.

Responsibilities: 

• Take complete end-to-end technical & engineering ownership of one or more applications.

• Be at the forefront of translating complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.

• Have significant influence on our strategy by helping define and build the next wave of product features and system architecture.

• Partner with Architecture and Business teams to provide best in class solutions.

• Champion Agile to inspire change and continuous improvement throughout the delivery process.

• Take a hands-on role in influencing and guiding day-to-day development activities by leading architecture decisions, participating in designs, design review, code review, and implementation.

• Be the ambassador for engineering best practice across the development lifecycle and champion continuous improvement across the Centre

• Define solutions in terms of components, modules, and algorithms.

• Development and Implementation of the proposed solution.

• Identify or develop software frameworks to be used.

• Refactor existing solutions to make it reusable and scalable.

• Leads and/or supports both product and technical discussions about how to apply existing and/or new technology in support of the business.

• Create design documents, code, unit/functional test, document and implement new programs and subprograms, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software.

• Must be able to understand the positioning of a solution within the company and to build consensus to effectively gain buy-in from all participants.

• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards, processes, and systems.

• Provide rotational on-call support as required.

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:

• 8-10+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with extensive expertise in designing and developing Java-based enterprise-level applications.
• Strong design and coding skills with Java/J2EE, Spring
• Be passionate about technology and solving large-scale complex business problems.
• Be an established self-starter who possesses a relentless drive to initiate change, raise the technical bar and deliver results
• Understanding and working experience with Spring frameworks.
• Working experience with SOAP and REST web services.
• Experience in Microservices development is a required.
• Knowledge and working experience with messaging technologies like MQ, Kafka.
• Knowledge and working experience on Git/Stash, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Github Actions and Jira.
• Experience on application development on Linux is required.
• Experience in applying modern Agile Software Development practices is required.
• Experience with database technologies like MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB.
• Experience with Cloud Services Integration (Deployment / S3), Hazelcast, Python and Spark/Flink is a plus.
• Experience in JavaScript, Angular and NodeJS is a plus
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker is a plus
• Knowledge and active practice of TDD (Test Driven Development) is a plus
• Experience building payment processing or funds transfer systems is a plus.
• Must be capable of translating architecture into a delivered solution that realizes the vision and purpose and effectively translate functional and non-functional requirements into an engineered solution.
• Should be able to lead the technical team in comfortably extending an existing solution or conceiving a new solution and working with delivery to have the target state architecture realized.
• Provides direction for selecting appropriate engineering techniques to solve for non-functional requirements at the project level.
• Strong problem determination skills and ability to resolve critical issues for complex systems under tight timeframes using dumps and other tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to multitask and handle multiple competing priorities with minimal direction from management. Should possess excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Must be able to write technical design and build documentation for all aspects of a technical infrastructure.
• Good interpersonal and facilitation skills.

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.