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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As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will be part of our Risk Solutions team to help design, enhance and build our transactional Fraud detection engine in an agile development environment. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. You will take leadership roles working on multiple projects building full stack development of real-time transactional services, RESTful APIs and Container based distributed services that are highly available, secure, scalable and resilient. You will spearhead development of next generation software based on machine learning and deep learning. 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. You will see the code written and moved to production within just a few days, to then be used by a huge customer base. You will be driving innovation that makes our products stand apart from our competitors and delight the customer with accelerated time-to-market delivery.

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.

Essential Functions

• Design and build infrastructure and microservices that help index, mine, transform, and compose PB sized deep learning datasets.
• Lead and build scalable and distributed services that will help power the AI infrastructure for deep learning platforms.
• Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data driven business solutions.
• Design the next generation of dataset management services for real and synthetic / simulated datasets.
• Design high volume high throughput multi-tenant cloud ready distributed system at a scale.
• Enable smart data selection - one of the key ingredients for successful machine learning!
• Collaborate with multiple AI teams to understand their requirements and build a platform infrastructure that improves productivity.
•  Be a technical leader on various projects across the platform and be a major contributor of the entire platform’s architecture.
• Drive development effort End-to-End for on-time delivery of high-quality solutions that conform to requirements, conform to the architectural vision, and comply with all applicable coding and security standards.
• Collaborate with senior technical staff and PM to identify, document, plan contingency, track and manage risks and issues until all are resolved.
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner
• Coach and mentor junior engineers on the team and help get them unblocked.
• Troubleshoot Production Issues as needed by working closely with Product and Support Teams

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.

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

Basic Qualifications:

10 or more years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree or at least 8 -10 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 6+ years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

12 or more years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD.
You have proven experience leading teams that have delivered high quality large scale enterprise class applications.
You are a Java expert experienced with REST APIs and container-based technologies. Strong on elegant coding, can write very solid prototypes or core components quickly.
Experience in UI technologies, JQuery/JavaScript standards including ES6, HTML5, CSS3 and CSS4, Redux, Riot.js and React.js, D3.
You have strong experience with Agile development incorporating TDD, CI/CD utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, JUnit, Mock frameworks.
Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques.
While you’ll have the skill to see and understand the big picture, you’re able to stay focused on the task at hand to achieve immediate goals.
Solid technical foundation in distributed computing and storage, including significant experience with most of the following: server systems, storage, I/O, networking, and systems software.
Advanced programming skills to build distributed storage and compute systems, backend services, microservices, and web technologies.
A specialist programmer in Go and/or C/C++
Proficient in implementing design patterns and hands on knowledge of Spring, hibernate, RDBMS and NoSQL Databases.
Good experience in Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, Flink , distributed cache.
Hands on experience on containers and orchestration platform such as docker, Kubernetes
Experience on cloud infrastructure and cost-effective platform such as AWS , AZURE.
Experience designing and building multi-tenant data platform at scale.
Experience with deploying and running multi region application in active-active mode. Experience in microservices architecture and database shading of a large-scale project. 
Experience developing large scale, enterprise class distributed system or subsystems that require high availability, low latency, & strong data consistency computing
Experience implementing solutions for low-latency, distributed services using open standard technologies.
Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear & concise way, a team player with a strong work ethic
You have proven experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirements and independently, architect, design and build the solution.
You have the passion to work with people and help mentor your juniors to reach new heights.
Passion for Big Data and analytics in general leveraging technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Solr, MapReduce.
You have work and academic experience that will demonstrate proficiency and ease with programming languages, code quality initiatives, scripting languages and operating systems.

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 155,400.00 to 202,000.00 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.

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.