SW Engineer - Sr. Consultant level

Visa•Austin, TX

3d•Hybrid

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. The Opportunity: We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software Engineer Sr Consultant Level , 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.

Requirements

Java expert, and you have experience with REST APIs, JSON.
Solid Experience with back-end technologies such as J2EE, JDBC, JMS and frameworks like Spring or Spring Batch, Spring Boot and vertex.
Rich Front-End development experience with Angular and React JS, Node.JS.
Hands on experience with database technologies like MySQL, DB2, Oracle.
You have strong experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, JUnit.
Strong oral and written communications skills are required.
Exceptional troubleshooting and analytical skills.
Ability to multitask and handle multiple competing priorities with minimal direction from management.
Must work well within a team in a fast-paced high-performance organization.
Curiosity and creativity, to want to understand the requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions.
8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.
Expertise in one or more general development languages such as Java is preferred.
Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams
Lead and collaborate with stakeholders (e.g., product owners, project managers, technical leads, architects) to define project requirements, leveraging an understanding of tradeoffs and project costs.

Nice To Haves

Working experience with Kafka, Redis, Hazelcast, or NoSQL datastores is a plus.
Gen AI: Experience building and deploying services using AI technologies such as LangGraph, LangChain, A2A, MCP etc.
9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD

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.
Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities
Designing, documenting, and implementing new systems, enhancements, and modifications to existing software that aligns with design specifications, security, and Java best practices.
Interacting with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality products and services that meet business requirements, using the latest tools and technology.
Delivering zero-defect code and ensuring the team's deliverables meet or exceed business expectations.
Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant web based applications.
Identifying opportunities for product innovation and improvements to best practices, standards, and processes.
Contribute to efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI and CD tools.
Develop and maintain back-end services using Java and Spring Boot, design and develop test automation frameworks, maintain CI and CD pipelines, conduct performance and load testing, and write automated test cases.
Presenting technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms.
Communicating status, issues, and risks effectively and timely.
Contributing to the design of backend DBs and queries, API creation and consumption, and front-end UI development. Also manage backend operations and batch jobs to maintain the data.
Leverage new technologies to build the next generation of Application stack.
Working independently to develop software that conforms to Visa’s high standards of security, quality, performance, resiliency, and compliance.
Translate functional and non-functional requirements into system designs, ensuring components interact seamlessly across teams.
Lead architecture discussions and refine design documents to meet non-functional requirements.
Independently design and develop products, lead code reviews, and ensure adherence to coding standards.
Provide guidance to team members and share best practices.
Create and review complex test plans, identify test gaps, and ensure efficient execution of quality assurance testing.
Proactively predict and address defects in software code.
Lead efforts to enhance, reuse, and identify new developer tools.
Propose and implement automation to improve system and tool efficiency.
Stay abreast of new trends and technologies, mentor other engineers, and share knowledge to improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance.
Engage with product engineering teams and product owners through code/design reviews, regular meetings, and participation in on-call rotations and incident responses.