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.

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 Senior Staff Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in the Issuing Solutions group, you will spearhead the architecture and design of a variety of projects. You will drive technical solutions that have a direct impact on the payment industry. The solutions you design will be large scale, always available, secure, fast, accessible, and globally ready with an impact measured in future years.

The Work itself:

• Deliver enterprise solutions at scale for Issuing Solutions and deliver the next generation of issuing platform.
• Design the most appropriate solution with well-understood trade-offs that meet business requirements.
• Propose new solutions to meet the fast-changing payments industry landscape.
• Play the main Lead role to understand high-level product requirements and help the team translate that to low-level engineering design for new features.
• Be able to come up with and evangelize architectural guidelines from an engineering standpoint to develop massively scalable, distributed systems.
• Review and recommend Visa and open-source/commercial libraries to deliver best-in-class software as per project requirements.
• Lead meetings and discussions with product and architecture teams.
• Lead and provide technical mentoring to a team of talented engineers and guide them on development and testing best practices.
• Leverage newer technologies and lead efforts to architect, design and implement/test various aspects of secure payment solutions.
• Understand and enhance coding guidelines and oversee code review processes.
• Review test strategy and test cases developed by test engineers to ensure optimum quality of solutions being delivered.
• Adhere to Agile/Scrum best practices and plan well in advance for sprint-based development and testing to ensure smooth releases on time and with high quality.
• Contribute towards team’s innovation agenda by leading efforts for participation in Hackathon and similar events through submission of unique ideas for payment solutions.
• Have a passion for emerging GenAI technologies, with an ability to understand and align with Visa’s strategy in this area and guiding and shaping team’s adoption plan accordingly.

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.
• Experience in delivering enterprise-class, mission-critical, commercial, and scalable products.
• Hands-on development experience in backend technologies including JAVA, J2EE, SQL, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, MongoDB, JPA/Hibernate, Kafka, and RabbitMQ.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.
• Experience with Application Servers and Databases such as Tomcat and Oracle, with knowledge of MongoDB, Cassandra, or Couchbase as a strong plus.
• Understanding of multi-threaded concurrent programming and non-blocking IO.
• Knowledge of various testing methodologies (functional, integration, regression, penetration, and performance testing).
• Familiarity with common application security vulnerabilities (OWASP).
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration/Delivery, Test Driven Development, and microservices.
• Experience with container platforms like Kubernetes, Docker, and OpenShift.
• Knowledge of performance analysis tools like Riverbed and monitoring tools like Splunk and Opera.
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence and develop relationships with key partners.

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

• 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

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD.

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.