Lead Software Engineer

Visa•Austin, TX

2h•Hybrid

About The Position

Visa’s Technology Organization is a collaborative community of problem solvers and innovators dedicated to 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 individuals. As a Staff Software engineer for the VISA PPT organization, you will provide technology leadership to build the next generation of IAM and Authentication products. You will get the opportunity to work on complex distributed systems and lead massive scale projects centered on new payment flows while collaborating with product and architecture partners. You will drive technical expertise for strategic projects aligned to business strategy and contribute to GenAI innovation across the organization.

Requirements

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.
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
15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
Experience in Java language, Spring, Hibernate, Angular, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, and HTML5/ CSS3
Expert in web service standards and related patterns (REST, gRPC)
Advanced knowledge of AI / Generative AI / Data Science.
Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development of Shared Services and framework including Micro Services, Container Technologies, Caching, API gateway and Security.
Possesses a deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different integration patterns.
Continuous delivery and Dev Ops experience - infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing and security implementation and practices.

Nice To Haves

A background in the payment domain is a plus.

Responsibilities

Drives the architecture for key cross team / cross product development projects (via architecture/design documents and developing code key modules).
Establishes software development patterns and best practices via examples and shipping code.
Ensures that all relevant project teams follow a common set of principles and patterns and utilize a standard set of technology frameworks and libraries.
Provides leadership across the engineering community to ensure solutions are built in alignment with platform principles and standards.
Mentors and builds world-class high-performing engineering teams.
Applies architecture best practices that helps increase execution velocity.
Contributes to key GenAI initiatives for developer productivity and product innovation.
Develops architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global.
Influences technology selection for the enterprise.
Defines deployment topology by working with peers across the technology organization.
Optimizes use of Visa’s Platforms & Solutions.
Demonstrates thought leadership through presentations and teaching across Visa.
Contributes to key Visa and PPT technology initiatives.