Staff Software Engineer (Java Backend)

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:

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
• Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance.
• Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements.
• Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
• Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, hacking beyond traditional solutions
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

7+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree.

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
• You have proven experience leading teams that have delivered high quality large scale enterprise class applications.
• You are a Java expert and you have experience with REST APIs, JSON and exposure to container based technologies.
• Working experience with Kafka, Spark, and Hadoop is a plus. Working experience in React and Vertx is a plus.
• Should have very good understanding in GenAI adoption. Hands on experience with database technologies like MSSQL and Oracle.
• You have strong experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, JUnit Ensure proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring. Knowledge of Unix/Linux and working in a shell environment. Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques. We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand customer requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions and improvements. 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 have a strong work ethic tofocus on our goals.
• Experience with Agile and Test-Driven Development methodology. You have proven experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirements and independently, architect, design and build the solution.
• You have the 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 and Unix skills to help support our Operations teams.
• A background in the Payment domain is a plus.