Staff SW Developer- JAVA BACKEND- 7+yrs - 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.

Payment Products Development Team (PPD) is building a new generation of digital and secured products to facilitate commerce in everyone’s digital and mobile lives. Our focus is to build intuitive features that expose profound new value for our customers, merchants and developers.

As Staff Software Engineer within Visa, you will form an integral role in the design, development and deployment of complex solutions that process millions of transactions per day worldwide. We are looking for experienced stars to solicit input from business and technology stakeholders across the enterprise and be responsible for the quality of large-scale technology initiatives.

You’re an Individual. We’re the team for you. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.

Responsibilities:

• Work as a member of a team responsible for designing, coding, testing and maintaining Visa's payment products.

• Lead the design for the applications you own. Contribute expertise for other application by participating in review sessions.

• Contribute to enhancements and changes to existing applications codebase.

• Develop code that complies with design specifications and meets security and Java/J2EE best practices. Use industry standard design patterns where applicable.

• Create code that is easily maintainable and have high system performance.

• Collaborate with Development & QA staff on individual and team deliverables.

• Utilize GenAI tools to enhance software development processes, including code generation, optimization, and testing.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI solutions into existing systems and workflows.

• Create documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance. Work with operations team for any production issues.

• Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards, best practices, design patterns and development methodologies.

• Work closely with project team and other groups (e.g. Platform, Ops, Release Engineering/Management).

• Participate in design and code review sessions to ensure the quality of work delivered by self and teammates are in accordance with development standards.

• Interact with business units to define requirements/modifications and use case to utilize in designing appropriate solutions. Ask question to understand what and why and then decide the how.

• Adapt quickly to new application knowledge and changes. Complete proof of concepts and other technical evaluations of technologies, designs and solutions

• Work in a loosely structured, fast-paced organization.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Basic Qualifications:
•7+ 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.
•Bachelors/master’s degree in computer science / computer engineering or
other related fields with a minimum of 7+ years of overall experience in
application development/engineering.
•Minimum of 7+ years of overall work experience in Java related tech stack
•Proficient in Java/J2EE/REST technologies and frameworks like Spring, Sprint
MVC, JPA, Hibernate
•Experience in API Development for producers and consumers adhering to all
standards for security and reliability.
•Experience in database such as Oracle, MYSQL, PostgreSQL and any of the
NOSQL
•Experience in Microservice architecture, Containers Orchestration (Kubernetes,
Docker etc.,)
•Strong understanding of generative AI models and tools, such as GPT, Llama,
and Anthropic etc.,
•Familiarity with GenAI tools such as GitHub copilot, chatGPT, Copilot for
Microsoft 365, and other relevant platforms.
•Experience with system design and tech stack upgrade to build highly
available, secure, maintainable, performing, and scalable applications.
•Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
•Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and other related technologies
•Experience in software configuration management with tools development,
automation (GIT, Maven, Artifactory, Jenkins, CI/CD etc.,)
•Experience in integrating third party APIs in the applications
•Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK
stack, Splunk/Humio
•Ability to write clean, coherent code following established coding guidelines.
•Strong collaboration, interpersonal, facilitation, and effective communication
skills (both written and verbal)
•Ability to deliver on multiple projects and manage priorities based on changing
directions.
•Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity.
•Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented.
•Experience developing as part of Agile/Scrum team.
•Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the
proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and
timeliness of deliverables.
•Mentor newbies in the team to ensure them to onboard them into project
quickly.

Preferred Qualification:
•Experience in web and application servers such as tomcat, nginx, jboss etc.,
•Experience in application server configurations.
•Experience in supporting production applications to ensure availability and
help solving customer reviews/feedback.

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.