As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

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

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be part of our Analytics Solutions team to help extensive testing for performance and optimizing Java applications,design enhancements for building our transactional engine in an agile development environment. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. You will be take leadership roles working on multiple projects building full stack development of real-time transactional services, REST services API and Container based services that are highly functional,distributed, secure, scalable and resilient. We believe in self-managing Agile teams who build products end to end focusing on unit testing, code reviews and continuous integration for excellent code quality. You will see the code written and moved to production within just a few days, to then be used by a huge customer base including Facebook, Nike, FedEx, Apple to name a few. You will be driving innovation that makes our products stand apart from our competitors, delight the customer with faster times for market delivery.

If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see
if this will be a good fit.

Most important qualities for the candidate are:  

Academics:  Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Leadership: leading solutions and working with teams to achieve it.  

Curiosity:  A desire to seek clarity of requirements and why tasks are done a certain way

Creativity: The ability to take a list of needs and insights and come up with other innovative ideas.  

Strategic focus: Skill to understand big picture and stay focused on task to achieve goals  

Attention to detail: The capability to perform any research systematically and accurately  

Strong work ethic:  The innate drive to do work extremely well  

Enthusiasm: A passion to understand people and deliver better products and services to them  

Responsibilities:

- Collect and Monitor key metrics to identify potential performance problems. Establish baselines for various workloads

- Build tools and infrastructure to support performance work. Develop, automate, and execute performance suites and analyze results to evaluate product performance

- Investigate, troubleshoot and fix application, database, and/or systems performance problems

- Review engineering specs on new products and services to identify performance requirements

- Identify performance bottlenecks and implement solutions to eliminate them. Code and test software changes to improve performance.

- Determine hardware/software configurations for optimal performance

- Ability to liaise with multiple groups architects, DBAs, developers, ops etc. to collaboratively troubleshoot performance issues, and resolve bottlenecks

- Ability to analyze large amounts of performance data and summarize them into meaningful graphs and reports

- Your DNA would include following and creating software best practices and processes.

- You coach and mentor your team members and help them grow professionally.

- You’ll lead meeting and discussions with cross-functional and non-technical teams.

-You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and above all, you are a team player!

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field and 12+ years of Software Development Experience or a Masters with 10+ years of Software Development Experience.


• Proven experience leading teams that have delivered high quality large scale enterprise class applications.

• Excellent ability to translate business requirements and NFRs into performance test strategy, test scenarios and load profile

• Extensive experience testing for performance and optimizing Java applications.

• Have experience with applications handling the workload in the bracket of thousands of TPS.

• Strong experience with performance tools such as JMeter, Load Runner 

• Good knowledge of performance troubleshooting using heap dumps and thread dumps

• Good knowledge of performance metrics related to OS, JVM

• Experience in utilizing performance- monitoring and tuning software for interpreting performance results and identifying bottlenecks (eg., SiteScope)

• Experience in working with load balancers and multiple web/app/db server technologies (Tomcat, Apache, SQL Server, Oracle etc.)