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.

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We at Visa, dream of a future where it's easy to pay and be paid. Across the planet. Where ever. Whenever. Securely. Easily. Together, we are building leading edge full-service Payment Management solutions combining global payment processing, fraud management and payment security systems. We are looking for a talented Staff SW Engineer to join our team!

The Staff Software Engineer will play a pivotal role in Risk and Identity Solutions (VAS) department. In this mission critical role, it's an opportunity to design and implement solutions and taking it to the production with high quality completing all phases, following an agile methodology. The responsibilities also include gathering and clarifying requirements, facilitating communication with other groups within the organization, and guiding architectural decisions. It is an opportunity to learn, lead and work on technologies for RAIS applications.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using functional programming paradigm
• Experience in technically leading software engineering teams
• Design, document and implement new systems, as well as enhancements and modifications to existing software with code that complies with design specifications and meets security and Java best practices.
• Participate in business requirements review and build functional & technical design documentation
• Design and implement testing procedures for: APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems covering end to end tests and integration scenarios.
• Participate in design reviews to provide input on functional/non-functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems.
• Work across the team to ensure the team is predictable, productive, and delivering high quality.
• Review code and accountability for team's development/testing activities
• Participate in proof of concepts and other technical evaluations of new technologies

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Basic Qualifications:

• 7 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or with an Advanced Degree.
• 6+ years of software development experience (with a concentration in data centric initiatives) in technology industry with strong programming skills
• Solid hands-on experience with Data technologies like Spark, Flin k, Hive Queries, Scoop, Scala, Hadoop
• Strong expertise in Java and Spring Framework, Web services, J2EE is a must.
• Experience with highly distributed, scalable, concurrent and low latency systems working with one or more of the following database technologies: Oracle Server, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL server.
• Good to have hands-on experience with scripting languages like Python / Shell Script

• Use of GenAI tools for coding and knowledge would be given preference
(Cline, Aider, Github Copilot etc.,)
• Must have experience in a technical capacity and quality methodology/release process/testing techniques in order to provide guidance and leadership to junior team members is required.
• Must have experience testing in an AGILE environment and should have exposure to testing environment migration, DB and infrastructure/system upgrades.
• Continuous Integration, Code/Test coverage working in different methodologies is a plus
• Must have proactive and strong communications to work well across teams.

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.