Lead Software Engineer

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.

Cross-border remittances and new business models (e.g., gig economy) require the ability to deploy rapid, frequent payouts. We are building a Technology Platform that will enable fast and ubiquitous push payments across a range of domestic and cross border use cases aiming to capture significant revenue opportunity across P2P, B2SB, and B2C flows and value-added services. Built on the latest standards/tech stack and providing open APIs, this platform will help drive innovation in the entire ecosystem.

We value creative and driven individuals who love to own their products, and design and implement solutions that create a seamless experience for consumers and clients. Our developers work across the stack, and are experts in service oriented architectures and technologies such as Java 8, J2EE, Springboot, Hibernate, MySQL, DB2, MongoDB, React JS, Cassandra, Hazelcast, Kafka, RabbitMq, Kubernetes and Docker, microservices etc.

As we embark on the journey to enhance the Visa Direct Payout Services technology platforms, we are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer who can participate in the detailed design and development activities for this product build.

The role involves extensive hands-on activities. Here are key job responsibilities

* Understand the Payments industry and where Visa Direct Payout Services fits in the payment's ecosystem
* Understand the business initiatives and their importance to the growth of Visa Direct Payout Services.* Develop a good understanding of the Visa Direct Payout Services technology platforms and the 3 rails of money movement cards, accounts and wallets.* Collaborate with product owners and technical staff globally to define requirements for new features and enhancements to the platform.* Actively participate in defining architecture and creating solution documents consistently, be hands-on with low level design, code review, coding and unit testing activities.* Evaluate technical options and provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required to develop an end-to-end solution.* Take ownership and lead the engineering responsibility for multiple components of the platform.* Actively participate in defining architecture and creating solution documents consistently, be hands-on with low level design, code review, coding and unit testing activities.* Coordinate engineering activities across the delivery of the project and work with engineers to ensure they are delivering efficiently and to high quality standards. Co-ordinate and influence business and technology partners spread across different regions to mitigate these risks.* Ability to identify and manage risks at all stages of the project.* Build a culture of engineering excellence within the team, drive adoption of practices like continuous integration, security, code reviews, code coverage, code quality and shift left practices.* Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards, processes and systems.* Technically manage and mentor a team of talented engineers.

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.Preferred Qualifications Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field with a minimum of 14+ years of Software Development Experience or a Masters in Computer Science or related field with a minimum of 12+ years of Software Development Experience.

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.