Staff SW Engineer - job 1 of 7

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.

Commercial Money Movement Solutions (CMS) division's charter is to capture new sources of money movement through card and non-card flows, including Visa Business Solutions, Government Solutions and Visa Direct which presents an enormous growth opportunity. Our team brings payment solutions and associated services to clients around the globe. Our global clients and partners deploy our solutions to serve the needs of Small Businesses, Middle Market Clients, Large Corporate Clients,

Multi Nationals and Governments. The Visa Business Solutions (VBS) and Visa Government Solutions (VGS) team is a world-class technology organization experiencing tremendous, double-digit growth as we expand products into new payment flows and continue to grow our core card solutions. This is an incredibly exciting team to join as we expand globally.

VCS Platform & Acceptance is part of Visa Commercial Solutions vertical of Visa's Technology organization. We are responsible tor designing, developing, and implementing Virtual Cards, payables, and acceptance commercial platforms to drive incremental revenue. We develop new offerings/products and enhance existing Visa Commercial Solutions product lines including Commercial B2B 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 innovative payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.

The Work itself

The Staff Software Engineer role is key to our ongoing transformation, requiring you to solve challenging business problems and build highly scalable, user-friendly applications. Key responsibilities include:

• Designing, documenting, and implementing new systems, enhancements, and modifications to existing software that aligns with design specifications, security, and Java best practices.
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of services and application stack
• Interacting with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality products and services that meet business requirements, using the latest tools and technology.
• Delivering zero-defect code and ensuring the team's deliverables meet or exceed business expectations. Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant web based applications.
• Identifying opportunities for product innovation and improvements to best practices, standards, and processes.
• Contribute to efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools.
• Mentoring junior developers to ensure timely delivery of good quality code.
• Presenting technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms.
• Communicating status, issues, and risks effectively and timely.
• Working independently to develop software that conforms to Visa’s high standards of security, quality, performance, resiliency, and compliance.
• Independently creating multiple design artifacts for projects and presenting designs to team members and other stakeholders.
• Collaborating with Technical Product Managers to break down solutions into smaller achievable tasks.
• Supporting test engineers and operation teams in troubleshooting, defect research, issue root cause analysis, etc.

Essential Functions

• You are a Java expert, and you have experience with REST APIs, gRPC and solid Experience with back-end technologies such as J2EE, JDBC, JMS and frameworks like Spring or Spring Batch, Spring Boot and vertex.
• Working experience with Kafka, Redis, or NoSQL datastores is a plus.
• Hands on experience with database technologies like MySQL, DB2, Oracle.
• You have strong experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, JUnit.
• Strong in understanding and writing simple and complex SQL.
• Strong in OOP concepts and design patterns.
• Experience in a technical leadership role
• Understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable applications.
• Strong oral and written communications skills are required.
• Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release.
• Strong interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Exceptional troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Ability to multi task and handle multiple competing priorities with minimal direction from management.
• Must work well within a team in a fast-paced high performance organization.
• We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand the requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions.

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 percent or more of the time based on business needs.

Basic Qualification:
• 7+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 10+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
• Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development of Shared Services and framework including Micro Services, Container Technologies, Caching, API gateway and Security.
• Be equally passionate about technology and solving large-scale complex business problems.
• Have a proven-track record within a technical lead role to produce innovative and simple solutions to complex problems
• Take responsibility to be able to perform the roles in the SDLC, including development, testing, CI/CD automation, and ensuring production stability.
• Continuous delivery and Dev Ops experience - infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing and security implementation and practices.

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 124,700.00 to 180,650.00 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.