BlockChain Engineer

Foster City, CA
Full-time

Company Description

Visa Inc

Job Description

About Global Commercial Payments Platform

Visa's Commercial Payments organization is responsible for managing Visa's B2B Payment innovation agenda and initiatives and the management of strategic partnerships with critical financial institutions. This group is responsible for defining and building the Non-Card based payment innovation and product for Visa Inc. Globally. The 5 priority verticals the team is focusing on are

1. Blockchain based Cross border payment platform

2. Near time Settlement

3. Enterprise ID stamping to create digital identity for corporates

4. Hyperledger chain-code development in Go-lang

5. Analytics and Data visulization

We are working on Blockchain technology and want to add a highly motivated Engineer to our team in
Foster City,CA. Work on emerging technologies, partnering with Product on implementation strategy.Work with technology teams to understand the business demand and ensure design and build of solutions creates or leverages cross-asset concepts and frameworks.

We're seeking a strong developer experienced with Ethereum and blockchain architecture to be a part of
team tasked with building distributed application. Our ideal candidate has built and released distributed
applications, has worked with the Ripple, R3, Ethereum and/or Bitcoin blockchain, and has experience with Solidity

Multiple Positions are available in Austin, TX and Foster City, CA locations

Qualifications

Primary Responsibility

Lead several unique Blockchain initiatives
Direct client and business exposure
Write code
Work on blockchain POCs
Monitor blockchain technologies.
Maintain firm’s relationship with the Hyperledger initiative.

Qualifications
Experience in Trade Finance, Equities, Payments Processing, Wholesale Credit
BlockChain technical expertise that is hands-on, platforms
Cloud architecture and scalable solutions including orchestration & containers
Must have a BS in Computer Science
Must have 2+ years of experience with distributed software development.
Must have hands on experience with all aspects of software development: data, server side, UI, and open source software.
Must have experience with Linux, Open source, C++ or Java, client server apps
Demonstrated passion for Fintech innovation, open source (OSS) software contributions, blockchain, cryptography, and
data-science
Passion for Test driven development and continuous learning
Enjoyment of the wild startup rodeo. Yee haw!
No Fear of the edge of startup engineering
Total Industry experience myst be 8+ years

Additional Information

Candidate will be working in VISA Global Commercial Payments area, team will be building a new payment rail leveraging Blockchain technology and distributed ledger, project details can be found here --