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.

If you think you could support Visa as a Senior Software Engineer, we want to hear from you – together, let’s make Visa a great place to work.

What’s it all about?

Visa Payments System Risk focuses on building and deploying innovative technologies to modernize payments around the world.  To affect this global transformation, we are looking for engineers who are passionate about innovating and delivering truly differentiated payment solutions for specific marketplaces.   

Senior Software Engineer role is for seasoned engineers who have played major roles in building complex, large-scale platforms. Depending on the interest, past experience and skill-set, the role provides flexibility to an individual to make a huge impact through domain or technical expertise or transition into leading large engineering teams.

This is a challenging role requiring the ability to technically execute large and complex projects, help design mission-critical high-volume low-latency services and provide hands on development and mentorship to team members.

What we expect of you, day to day.

• Lead in developing best in class web application – shipping features end-to-end from UI to Backend.

• Ability to work in a fast moving environment and take initiative to structure the ask and deliverables.

• Drive the design and development for key cross team / cross-region / cross product development projects (via architecture/design documents and developing key modules).

• Ensure that the platform is built with common set of principles and patterns and utilize a standard set of technology frameworks and libraries.

• Develop systems that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global.

• Define deployment topology by working with peers across the technology organization.

• Ability to work closely with business teams to translate design and wireframes to high quality code.

• Quickly prototype and design new features.

• Demonstrate thought leadership through presentations and teaching across Visa. 

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
 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
 Java expert with experience in REST APIs, JSON and exposure to container based technologies.
 Strong experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, JUnit, PowerMock.
 Ensure proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.
 Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques.
 Proven experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirements and independently, architect, design and build the solutions.
 Passion to work with people and help mentor your juniors to reach new heights.
 As an end-end champion for your products, you will have strong debugging skills to help support our Operations teams.
 A background in the fraud detection domain is a plus.

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.