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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“Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.” including OPT and H4 EAD.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be part of our Payments & Platform Engineering 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.

Essential Functions

• You’ll help our customers achieve their real goals by understanding their requirements and how they respond to their business needs.
• You’ll use technologies that include Java, REST, NoSQL, Docker and more.
• You will analyze business requirements and architect a solution that is robust and scalable along with providing technical documentation of solution.
• You’ll leverage new technologies to build the next generation of Transactional systems.
• You’ll develop and deliver new features every few days and be responsible for them end-end
• You have the work and academic experience that will demonstrate proficiency and ease with programming languages, code quality initiatives, scripting languages and operating systems
• You have experience in commercial software development on Unix/Linux environment.
• You have experience in consumer facing application development.
• You have amazing work ethic that will help us all work extremely well together
• You have the passion to understanding people and to always striving to improve our products and services!

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.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 7-10 years of work experience and a Bachelor’s Degree or 6 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 years of experience with a PhD
• You have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 10+ years of Software Development Experience or a Masters with 7+ years of Software Development Experience
• You have expertise of Core Java, JEE technologies, REST and container-based technologies
• You have experience in application development frameworks like Vert.x, Spring etc and have knowledge of Asynchronous programming
• Understand the Security requirements and standards, and contemporary trends in Security risks as well as technologies
• Experience in security domain with authentication, authorization and building secure gateway
• Experience developing & deploying services in a multi-cloud environment like GCP, Azure & AWS.
• You have experience architecting solutions with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind
• We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand customer requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions
• 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
• You’re great at systematic and accurate research wanting to uncover the smallest detail
• You have amazing work ethics that will help us all work extremely well together
• Excellent team player, with strong collaboration skills and ability to influence cross-functional team for results
• Focus on building an efficient and collaborative team environment

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 117,700.00 to 153,000.00 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.