Lead Software Engineer

Visa • Foster City, CA

70d • $178,400 - $258,750

About The Position

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 Commercial Money Movement Solutions with focus on B2B Visa Commercial Solutions.

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.
• Extensive experience in software engineering and architectural design for highly scalable and always-on distributed systems.
• Proven expertise in the payment’s domain, with in-depth knowledge of commercial cards, Identity, 3DS, and other payment technologies.
• Demonstrated experience in leading and delivering complex projects from concept to deployment.
• Proficiency in agile development methodologies and practices.
• Experience with large-scale systems with both VM and Container based multi data-center (active active) solutions.
• Extensive technical experience with full stack HTTP, JAVA REST APIs, JSON, databases, Spring, Java and web frameworks at scale.
• Experience with both NoSQL and SQL data stores including Redis, HazelCast, MySQL, MSSQL or similar.
• Proficiency in leveraging generative AI to enhance development processes and resource efficiency.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving aptitude.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum seven (7) years experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or AND minimum nine (9) years experience.
• Minimum twelve (12) years of experience.
• Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to inspire and lead cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to interface effectively with senior leadership, providing clear and concise updates on project vision and progress.
• Experience with Visa’s (or other payment brand's) products and services.
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements in the payments industry.

Responsibilities

• 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 Commercial Payment Services.
• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
• Work with Product owners, architects and other relevant stakeholders to gather and refine requirements for one or more products.
• Translates functional requirements into system designs for one or more components and communicates how the components will interact.
• Demonstrates understanding of non-functional requirements (NFR) and their impact on the system.
• Leads junior engineers in understanding requirements.
• Design, Code, test, document and implement new applications & as well as existing programs.
• Develop code that complies with design specifications and meets security and coding best practices.
• Work independently and provide guidance to junior developers.
• Participate in design and code review sessions as appropriate.
• Write automation scripts to functionally automate the testing.
• Engages with product engineering teams and product owners during code/design reviews, regular meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles.
• Leverages advanced knowledge of systems/platforms and telemetry analyses to propose isolated improvements in code, processes, and designs.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401 (k)
• FSA/HSA
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees