Staff SW Engineer

Visa•Foster City, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Visa’s Technology Organization focuses on reshaping the future of commerce by operating sophisticated processing networks. As a Staff Software Engineer within the Shared Service & Cloud Enablement portfolio team in the Acceptance Solutions org, you will design, enhance, and build Visa's transactional platform in an agile development environment. This role involves full-stack development of real-time transactional services, REST services API, and container-based services, contributing to highly functional, secure, scalable, and resilient real-time payment systems. You will be involved in development, unit testing, code reviews, and continuous integration, with code moving to production rapidly to be used by a vast customer base.

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.
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.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work well in a team and independently.
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

Hands-on experience in AI, particularly Generative AI
GCP or AWS Cloud certifications

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
Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
Identifies and contributes 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.
Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements.
Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.