Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

  • 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

The successful candidate will be working in the Loyalty and Marketing Services Development team which is part of the Data Products Development organization.  This is a full stack developer for a self-motivated individual with excellent software engineering skills and expertise in Big Data technologies and Java/J2EE. The candidate will be extensively involved in hands-on activities including POCs, design, documentation, development, and testing.  The candidate should be a motivated self-starter and quick learner.
 

Responsibilities

  • Lead the analysis, design, development, and implementation of various initiatives, with end-to-end ownership to deliver the business functionalities.
  • Design, develop and maintain mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.
  • Develop high quality code, participate in code reviews, and mentor junior developers to ensure the deliveries on time.
  • Have a passion for delivering zero defect code and be responsible for ensuring the team's deliverables meet or exceed the prescribed defect SLA.
  • Champion Security best practices: Become a security champion by owning the responsibility of component security. Collaborate with Cyber security teams to implement and verify secure coding techniques
  • Coordinate and participate in Continuous Integration activities, automation frameworks for testing and deployments etc. in addition to contributing to core product code.
  • Interact with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high quality products and services that meet business requirements and expectations while applying the latest available tools and technology.
  • Present technical solutions, capabilities, and features in business terms.
  • Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.
  • Work on development of new products iteratively by building quick POCs and converting ideas into real products.
     

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 :

• 6+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree or at least 4+ years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

Preferred Qualifications :

• Bachelor's / Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or relevant field required.
• 6+ years of software design, architecture, and development experience.
• Strong foundation in computer science, with excellent competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design, optimized for building highly distributed and parallelized systems
• Strong in Core Java development concepts and design patterns. Good design and coding skills in Java/J2ee, Web Services, Spring Boot, Sprint Cloud, Soap/Rest APIs.
• Must have strong experience with Big Data ecosystem like Hadoop, Spark, Map Reduce, Kafka or equivalent
• Capability to work in UI stack using advance Java Script frameworks like AngularJS, Backbone etc is preferable.
• Experience developing back-end applications including multi-process and multi-threaded architectures.
• Experience in writing quality and self-validating code using unit tests, or following TDD.
• Capable to leverage DevOps techniques and practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test Automation, Build Automation and Test Driven Development to enable the rapid delivery of working code utilizing tools like Jenkins, Maven, Chef, Git and Docker.
• Experience in Agile development using any of the methodologies like SCRUM is a big plus.
• Product development experience is Must

Additional Information

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.
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