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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What we do

Member of the Visa family since its acquisition in November 2020, YellowPepper's proven platform, Yepex®, enables issuers to easily launch card and account agnostic real-time payments solutions (P2P, P2M, and Cross-Border, among others) while providing value added services such as tokenization, identity validation and risk tools to deliver a complete transaction and service offering. The company is creating the Next Generation Payment Ecosystem to help financial institutions, retailers, and their customers to transact digitally, with security, anytime and anywhere. Operating in 11 countries, the Miami-based global company currently serves 50 clients and 6 million monthly active users.

Our Vision Create the foundation of the Digital Economy to enable the best and most secure everyday life experience.

Our Mission To create the next generation Payment Ecosystem to simplify people’s lives

What we are looking for As a member of our development team, the Java Technical Lead will design and develop high volume, low latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high availability. You will support web-based application development and maintenance, and contribute to and grow our software engineering competency. The Java Technical Lead must have broad experience in web application development. The Java Technical Lead provides input and support for and performs full systems life cycle management activities (e.g., analysis, technical requirements, design, coding, testing, implementation, etc.) of application software. This position collaborates with teams and supports emerging technologies to ensure effective communication and achievement of objectives. This position provides knowledge and support for applications development, and integration, and maintenance. The selected candidate must have excellent communication skills and strong organizational skills, be able to meet deadlines, as well as interact effectively with other developers, and management.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end responsibility for projects of increasing complexity that encompass more than their own development. • Be independent with little oversight beyond high-level direction, work on complex tasks, and completes them despite roadblocks, including debugging techniques.
• Help large groups of engineers deliver complex projects with drama-free launches, owning the technical testing and performance planning side of these projects. • Deliver software on-time and improve the accuracy of the team’s estimations. • Understand the business that their code supports, and possess empathy for the users of their software, using this understanding to influence their task prioritization. • Understand the tradeoffs between technical, analytical, and product goals, and strive to create solutions that satisfy all of these goals. • Write consistently high-quality code, deliver features to QA that they believe are well-baked and bug- free, being aware of industry best practices and trends • Be known outside of their core team as a technology leader, working effectively with non-tech members of their pillar. Ability to identify problems with requirements and help their team course-correct around these issues. • Research and propose new technologies, and have a broad understanding of the entire architecture, as well as a very detailed understanding of their area. • Proactively identify and clean up technical debt before it turns into a long-term problem, and encourage and enable their team to do the same. • Identify risks in code, features, and design, and communicate these to the appropriate parties. • Participate in architecture designs providing feedback and also providing designs with guidance from the architecture team, as appropriate • Ability to identify and suggest areas of future work for themselves and others while contributing to the common standards for the team. • Balance leadership and individual contribution by providing extensive mentoring of junior team members while maintaining deep individual contribution. • Seek evidence to support their ideas and start to build cases for these ideas. • Support deployment releases as needed and maintain the application once it’s in production.

Languages English and Spanish. (Written and spoken proficiency)

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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications and Education requirements

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

• Significant experience leading and mentoring a team

• Expert in Java and Enterprise Java technologies and development

• Expert in the Spring framework (Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Security, etc)

• Expert in designing and implementing RESTful web services

• Expert building web applications from the ground up

• Experience converting business requirements into technical design documents

• Ability to write well-designed, testable, efficient code

• Knowledge of or working experience with CI/CD pipelines including technologies such as Docker, Jenkins/Concourse

• Experience with cloud technologies, such as GCP

• Agile (scrum) based delivery practices, test-driven development, test automation, and continuous delivery

• Solid understanding of object-oriented principles

• Demonstrated success in building design patterns and software engineering best practices

• Experience with Oauth2

• Solid understanding of hibernate

• Solid understanding of microservices

• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL, and NoSQL

• Experience with maven

• Experience with JBoss application server

• Experience with Java Messaging

• Understanding of git-flow workflow

Experience

• Java 6+ years.

• Spring Framework 5+ years.

• CI/CD 3+ years.

• Technical Lead+2 years.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Angular2+

• Experience with Reactive Programming

• Experience with Cloud-Native design & development

• Experience leading a development team

• Experience with financial applications, especially in the peer-to-peer space and involving payment cards

• Leadership skills, like regular 1-1s, career growth, areas for improvement, identifying areas of learning and assigning project work, extra learning, or additional mentoring to help grow in these areas.

We are an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) 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.