Staff Software Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale.  As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.   

The Work itself: 

  • Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability 
  • Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings 
  • Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads 
  • Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions. 
  • Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology 
  • Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities 

 

Essential Functions:

  • Developing, testing, and documenting software programs
  • Developing micro services using Java, Sprint boot, Kafka and MySQL.         
  • Applying the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of engineering applications and products
  • Supporting and/or installs software applications/operating systems    
  • Performing code reviews to verify changes meet development requirements and deploying and staging code in development environments
  • Developing database queries, or code that generates queries and fixes bugs found in existing codebases
  • Contributing to authoring large project deployment procedures
  • Developing large applications independently and designing multi-tier solutions
  • Producing highly scalable, high performing applications
  • Helping preserve goals and business requirements

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining 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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
6 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
•Master's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum three (5) years of experience in a directly related field. OR
•Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum five (8) years of experience in a directly related field. OR
•Minimum eight (8) years of directly related experience.
•Desire to work with and share new and innovative ideas, constantly expanding your knowledge
•Analytical, strong organization and planning skills
•Ability to work on complex technical and business problems while creative solutions
•5+ years of experience with Core Java and Java web application development for RESTful web services
•3+ years of strong knowledge w/ Spring Framework, Sprint boot and Build Tools, such as Maven
•Working knowledge in Reactive and Event drive programming using Kafka
•Strong knowledge in accessing data using Spring Data, JPA and JDBC
•Strong OOP Design Skills and experience with design patterns
•Ability to understand and author APIs
•Practice in Test-driven Development
•Good knowledge in multi-threading and concurrency
•Experience with CI/CD using Jenkins , Docker, Kubernetes
•Working with Checkmarx, Qualys, Aqua and similar code/system scanners and remediation for security focused development
•Strong knowledge in optimizing SQL, Stored Procedure is a plus
•Profession experience in using ETL tool Clover DX to implement import and export data flows.
•Experience in AI/ML is a plus.
•Experience working with API automation with Java based frameworks (Rest Assured, TestNg or JUnit) or JavaScript based frameworks (Jasmine or Jest).

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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