Staff SW Engineer

Visa•Foster City, CA

7h•$146,200 - $233,700•Hybrid

About The Position

Visa is a global leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions across over 200 countries and territories. The company is dedicated to uplifting everyone by being the best way to pay and be paid, offering opportunities to create impact at scale, tackle meaningful challenges, and grow skills. Visa's Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators focused on reshaping the future of commerce, operating sophisticated processing networks handling over 65,000 secure transactions per second. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will join the Shared Service & Cloud Enablement portfolio team within the Acceptance Solutions organization. Your role will involve designing, enhancing, and building Visa's transactional platform in an agile development environment. You will contribute to multiple projects, including full-stack development of real-time transactional services, REST services API, and container-based services, aiming for highly functional, secure, scalable, and resilient real-time payment systems. The position emphasizes development, unit testing, code reviews, and continuous integration, with code moving to production rapidly to serve a vast customer base including major companies like Facebook, Nike, and Apple.

Requirements

5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience
A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions
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

Strong experience in building large scale enterprise level backend applications using Java, Spring, REST API, RDBMS, NoSQL, Vert.x, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Jenkins
Good analytics & problem-solving skills with a solid foundation in algorithms, data structures and common design patterns
Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery, Container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)
Proficiency with Observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, OpenSearch, M3DB, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, FluentBit, Elastic Search)
Experience with TDD using JUNIT/functional automation testing and tools
Proven experience delivering complex software projects and solutions effectively through Agile methodologies on a regular release cadence
Strong leadership skills, with a proven ability to think big and challenge the status quo
Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
Hands-on experience in AI, particularly Generative AI, is highly preferred
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work well in a team and independently
GCP or AWS Cloud certifications are a plus

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
Make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities
Demonstrate relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements
Identify and contribute to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance
Apply standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements
Collaborate with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products
Analyze bugs for simple issues and apply debugging tools to verify assumptions