Staff Software Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

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.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Visa Corporate IT (CIT) group has embarked on a major technology transformation journey and Engineering, Apps and Analytics (EAA) team plays a key role transitioning Revenue and Pricing systems to next generation technologies. As part of this strategy, EAA team is looking for curious, creative, and technology experts to join our growing team. We focus on delivering global platforms that enable Visa's Pricing, Invoicing and Operating Certificate applications, which are used by Visa business partners to service Visa clients globally.

 

The successful candidate is expected to be an expert in Java EE technologies and Open-Source web application framework. The selected candidate will be fully accountable and responsible for solution design and delivery achieving engineering excellence of platforms and services.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for analysis, design, development, unit testing and support of Java EE applications and Open-Source web application frameworks to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the business functions
  • Apply creative thinking / approaches to determine the best solutions embedding engineering and operational excellence practices
  • Responsible to create high-level and technical design documents and test cases, and deployment plans
  • Work closely with the application teams to ensure the successful delivery of business capabilities, and enhancements
  • Liaise with internal business and technology groups (such as database administration, infrastructure support, development) in performing support activities, system configuration and standard functionality analysis for enhancement requests
  • Adhere to well-defined support policies, procedures, and service levels with an understanding of SOX related IT controls
  • Work in an agile project environment and follow agile methodologies with quick turnaround times

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

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD


Preferred Qualifications:

  • 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
  • 7+ years of strong experience in Java EE technologies and Open-Source web application frameworks including Spring Boot, Apache Camel, MVC, Hibernate, Angular, CSS3, HTML5, and Web Services (REST/SOAP)
  • Experience on microservices, containerization and ability to quickly build and drive team to support future systems
  • Strong experience evaluating business requirements and translating them into technical designs documents
  • Strong experience in Design Patterns, and data modelling
  • Strong knowledge and experience working with Database systems like MongoDB and MySQL
  • Good experience working on application servers like Apache Tomcat
  • Good experience working in UNIX, Windows and Linux platforms
  • Experience with build automation tools including Maven/Gradle/Jenkins/Grunt
  • Exposure and good knowledge on web application security will be an added advantage
  • Experience in version Control tools: SVN, Git or similar
  • Experience with waterfall and agile methodologies, including knowledge of Agile model and DevOps working model
  • Familiar with configuration/hardware/design and performance tuning techniques to ensure meeting performance goals
  • Highly self-motivated and adaptable to learning and understanding new technologies
  • Strong written communication, oral communication, inter-personnel skills with attention to details
  • Strong analytical/problem solving skills
  • Ability to work both independently and in a team
  • Able to effectively prioritize and manage multiple tasks to meet aggressive timelines
  • Team player with a can-do attitude

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

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.

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