Sr. Staff SW 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, enhancement, and build of our integrations with different e-commerce platforms as a pivotal figure within our Risk and Identity Solutions team.
• Actively participate in full stack development projects, constructing real-time transactional services, REST services API, and container-based services.
• Develop and maintain highly functional, secure, scalable, and resilient real-time and batching systems.
• Prioritize and manage multiple demands and projects in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Create, implement, and assess best practices to continually find areas of improvement.
• Coordinate multiple work streams and ensure all are aligned with the project goals and schedules.
• Become a pillar of support and knowledge within the team, continuously challenging and pushing for team-wide growth and success.
• Regularly report progress, issues and solutions to upper management to keep them informed.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Senior Staff Software Engineer, or similar role, with a demonstrated history of leading large-scale projects.
• Extensive expertise in software development, particularly with e-commerce platform integrations.
• Understanding and experience with building real-time transactional services, REST services API, and container-based services.
• High level of capacity to manage multiple projects and tasks concurrently in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Detail-oriented approach to work, emphasizing accuracy and thoroughness in all tasks.
• Excellent strategic and technical problem-solving skills.
• A self-starter with a strong sense of individual motivation.
• Exceptional communication and team collaboration skills.
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field. Experience with agile methodologies is preferred.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into understandable terms for non-technical stakeholders.

Additional Information

• Your role would involve understanding and addressing the needs of customers and helping them achieve their business objectives.
• In this role, you will carry out comprehensive analyses of business requirements, and employ your expertise to architect solutions that are not only robust and scalable, but also tailored to the unique needs of our enterprise. Additionally, you will be responsible for crafting comprehensive technical documentation for each solution to ensure seamless understanding and implementation across the team, ultimately enhancing our system design and business processes
• In this role, you will serve as a champion for Agile methodologies, motivating your team to embrace change and always seek ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness throughout the project delivery lifecycle. By fostering an environment of lean thinking and continuous growth, you will drive our team and processes towards greater agility and performance.
• We're seeking candidates boasting robust work and academic backgrounds that reflect proficiency in programming languages, mobile technologies, quality assurance, scripting languages, and diverse operating systems. In this role, you'll be expected to be versatile with a range of technologies – Java, No SQL, REST PAI, constantly seeking to leverage novel technologies to architect and develop the next generation of Payment Integration systems.
• We are seeking candidates who have a deeply ingrained approach towards following and establishing top-tier software practices and processes. Excellent interpersonal skills are a must for this position, as effective team collaboration is essential for success in this role. Moreover, you will be expected to actively participate in executive discussions at several stages, including project initiation, production issue reviews, architectural assessments, etc.

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 Wednesdays, Thursdays and alternating Fridays, with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or with an Advanced degree
• You have payments related SME knowledge in one or more of the following industries – Banking, Fintech, Retail, Healthcare, Insurance
• You have expertise of Core Java, JEE technologies, Web technologies, JavaScript and container-based technologies.
• Proficient in Web Services/API Development using SOAP or REST, JSON and XML.
• Proficient in Kafka - Ability to install, maintain and troubleshoot Kafka. Have experience with messaging and stream processing on Kafka. Have ability to set up and configure Kafka brokers.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc.).
• Experience with RDBMS systems like SQL Server, Oracle or DB2 or No-SQL DBs like Mongo DB.
• Exposure working on UI/Web development using Angular/React, JavaScript, JQuery, and HTML/CSS technologies is required.
• Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness.
• You are an expert in proposing solutions for building world class payment solutions which includes Development, monitoring, troubleshooting, triaging
• You have experience architecting solutions with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind
• You have the ability to work with various Solutions architects/Architects to build tailored solutions for various system integrations.
• You are an advocate to rest of the teams to best engineering practices to delivery with highest quality possible, with top velocity.
• We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand customer requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions
• While you will 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 proven experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirement and architect, design and build the solutions.

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.