Software Engineer, Sr Consultant Level

  • 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

Payments are a very exciting and fast-developing area with a lot of new and innovative ideas coming to market. With strong demand for new solutions in this space, it promises to be an exciting area of innovation for the next 5 to 10 years. VISA is a strong leader in the payment industry, and is rapidly transitioning into a technology company with significant investments in this area.

If you want to be in the exciting payment space, learn fast and make big impacts, VISA Enterprise Payments team is an ideal place for you!

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be part of our Enterprise Payments team to help design, enhance and build our transactional platform in an agile development environment. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. You will play part of multiple teams tasked with multiple projects ranging from building full stack development of real-time transactional services, REST services API, Container based services to highly functional, secure, scalable and resilient real time and batching systems. You will work on unit testing, code reviews and regular check-ins to continuous integration that will become part of your DNA. 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, State Farm, to name a few.
 

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 for both of us.

This position is ideal for an experienced software engineer who is passionate about solving challenging business problems and building applications that provide an excellent user experience. 

Essential Functions:

  • Works with Solution or Enterprise Architecture to translate architecture into a delivered solution that realizes the vision and purpose. 
  • Possesses functional and industry experience 
  • Provides the technical guidance the project needs to meet the wider goals of the org strategy. 
  • Effectively translates functional and non- functional requirements into an engineered solution. 
  • Leads and supports both product and technical discussions about how to apply existing and/or new technology in support of the business. 
  • In addition to the technical skill set and passion for learning new technologies, the candidate will be a self-starter, results-driven, and equipped with excellent verbal and written communication skills to interface with leadership within Visa , external teams and stakeholders. 
  • Teach others through informal sessions such as brown bags and tech talks. 
  • Coach/mentor others within sub-function. 
  • Plays the 'Player-Coach' role for the team at project level. 
  • Understands how a project fits into the overall technology roadmap and communicate to the team to help establish buy-in and ownership. 
  • Takes ownership and/or leads the engineering responsibility for multiple components in a project. 
  • Provides consultative work throughout the project lifecycle to ensure vision and goal of project is realized through delivery. 
  • Is able to coordinate engineering activities across the delivery of the project. 
  • Works with engineers to ensure they are delivering quality and efficiently against project requirements. 
  • Supports operational and QA teams in support activities such as troubleshooting, defect research, code promotion and configuration for projects lead by the engineer. 
  • Successful candidate will have a flair for out-of-box thinking and be passionate about mentoring and coaching junior software engineers. Candidate should also have passion for engineering excellence, reducing TCO and improving TTM. 

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 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

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


Preferred Qualifications:

  • 9 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
  • 6 or more years of hands-on experience and deep knowledge in software product development (Java/J2EE , SOA based applications)
  • 4 or more years of experience in designing/architectural horizontally scalable, multi-tenant SOA application
  • Proficient in implementing design patterns.
  • Strong understanding of : Java, J2EE , RDBMS, NoSQLDB such as Cassandra , Mongo DB , Spring , Hibernate.
  • Experience in developing and deploying components as docker containers is required.
  • Experience with JavaScript and front end technologies/frameworks like JQuery, ReactJS, Angular React / Redux experience is plus but not required.
  • Divides time between active coding related activities, design, coordination, mentoring, project management, and/or leading same.
  • Experience in deployment and distribution lifecycle with automated and scalable CI/CD infrastructure.
  • Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis
  • A go-getter who is not overwhelmed by new technology, tight timelines, or parallel projects
  • Thrives in a fast-paced environment producing and supporting business services with tier 0 severity and flexible to work with distributed global teams and willing to support clients globally
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and presentation skills, and proven ability to influence and communicate effectively
  • Experience with CI/CD tools including Jenkins , Maven, Stash is required

Additional Information

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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 121,000.00 to 157,300.00 USD, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.
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