Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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The Data division is part of the Visa's technology organization. The division is responsible for maintaining Visa's data assets and provides value added products and services to drive innovation for our partners and clients, within Visa and globally. The Data Platform is dedicated to provide systems and services to make data secure, high quality, rich, fast, and easy to use, therefore enabling Visa with the ability to leverage its data asset in an effective and timely manner to maximize technology/business development and differentiate Visa from others in the payment industry.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help design, enhance and build solution dealing with batch and real-time data in a fast-paced environment. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. 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. 

Responsibilities:

A successful candidate is who thrives in a fast-paced environment, has customer obsession, thinks big, and knows to simplify.  The candidate will leverage sound architectural principles to implement effective and efficient solutions for our users. 

The ideal candidate has strong technical background and have a good written and verbal communication skills. The ideal candidate has production experience building and pushing code into production, is passionate about performance, testability, and maintainability, cares about quality of code, and loves to learn new technologies. 

• Define and deliver high quality code for features and bug fixes with minimal assistance 

• Enhance and support production systems 

• Follows established software development guidelines and Visa security standards 

• Build and maintain relationships with the agile team, the user community, architects, and support teams to understand requirements and implement effective solutions 

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. 

Basic Qualifications:
• 3 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 0 years with a Masters in Computer Science or related field
• Excellent Java and Python programming skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Experience with implementing and supporting real-time systems
• Experience working in an Agile environment with good software development practices such as CI/CD, code reviews and test automation
• Experience with Big Data technologies such as Hive, YARN and Spark, Kafka or Flink
• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases like MySQL, DB2, Redis and Cassandra
• Strong attitude towards getting things done while maintaining regard for code quality

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.