Lead Software Engineer

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 new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms. 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.

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 Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology.
• Provides strategic technical and functional knowledge of the e-commerce platform as well as a thorough understanding of the business to direct strategy on collecting and understanding requirements.
• Leads meetings with product partners to recommend development and solution strategies that improve the design and functionality of interface features across a range of payment products.
• Formalizes Standard Processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements.
• Analyzes patterns across bugs and implements systemic solutions to ensure websites remain functional and easy to use.
• Establishes architectural and technical standards and processes, ensuring adherence through governance.
• Evaluates and identifies appropriate technology solutions to address business and technology challenges, guiding product development teams through implementation.
• Champions technology innovation by promoting forward-thinking strategies and initiatives.
• Evaluates and develops proofs of concept (PoCs) for new technologies including but not limited to Generative AI.
• Creates technology-driven projects, features, and stories to enable continuous platform improvement.
• Keeps abreast of emerging technologies and leverages them to enhance existing architectures.
• Guides teams in building reusable libraries and frameworks that streamline application development.

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.
• Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++).
• Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability.
• Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams.

Nice-to-haves

• 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.
• Experience designing solution architectures on enterprise applications.
• Mandatory experience with n-tier web application development and experience in Java/J2EE or other frameworks.
• Solid experience in frameworks like Spring or Spring Boot, Sprint MVC.
• Proficient in Web Services/API Development using SOAP or REST, JSON and XML.
• Proficient in Kafka - Ability to install, maintain and troubleshoot Kafka.
• 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.
• Proficient in GIT/Stash, Maven, Jenkins etc.
• Good foundation in cloud computing fundamentals, and understanding the different service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and deployment models (public, private, hybrid).
• Leading a module/team or mentoring experience will be a plus.
• Excellent presentation, collaboration and communication skills required.
• Proficient in GenAI technologies.

Benefits

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