Staff SW Engineer - Dev Ex

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

About Visa: Visa is a global leader in payment technology, connecting consumers, businesses, financial institutions, and governments to fast, secure, and reliable electronic payments.

Team Overview: 

Join our dynamic Developer Experience organization under Operations and Infrastructure. Our team is responsible for handling developer tools and the developer platform, ensuring a seamless experience for developers. We develop, maintain, and support business-critical applications that drive Visa's daily operations for developers. Currently, we are on a multi-year journey to modernize our business systems by adopting open software technologies and moving towards cloud.

Role Overview: We are seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our “Strategic Initiatives” team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in building the next-generation global payment network, contributing to Visa's transformation.

Primary Responsibilities:

System Design and Development:

• Design, document, and implement new systems, enhancements, and modifications to existing software, ensuring alignment with design specifications, security standards, and Java best practices.

• Develop highly scalable, fault-tolerant web-based applications.

Stakeholder Interaction:

• Engage with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality products and services that meet business requirements using the latest tools and technologies.

• Present technical solutions, capabilities, and considerations in business terms.

Code Quality and Delivery:

• Deliver zero-defect code and ensure the team's deliverables meet or exceed business expectations.

• Contribute to and evolve a highly efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools.

Innovation and Best Practices:

• Identify opportunities for product innovation and improvements to best practices, standards, and processes.

Mentorship and Collaboration:

• Mentor junior developers to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality code.

• Collaborate with Technical Product Managers to break down solutions into smaller achievable tasks.

Documentation and Support:

• Develop backend databases and queries, create and consume APIs, and handle front-end UI development.

• Manage backend operations and batch jobs to maintain data integrity.

• Support test engineers and operations teams in troubleshooting, defect research, and issue root cause analysis.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Basic Qualifications:-
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:-
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• You are a Full stack developer, and you have experience with REST APIs, JSON, Microservices.
• Solid Experience with back-end technologies such as Golang, Python - Flask, Java frameworks like Spring , Spring Boot.
• Rich Front-End development experience with Angular/React JS, Node.JS, and Material Design is desirable. Working experience with Kafka, Redis, or NoSQL datastores is a plus.
• Hands on experience with database technologies like PostgreSQL, MySQL.
• Hands on experience with kafka or other MQ technologies.
• You have strong experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar.
• Strong in understanding and writing simple and complex SQL.
• Strong in OOP concepts and design patterns.
• Strong oral and written communications skills are required.
• Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release.
• Strong interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Exceptional troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Ability to multi task and handle multiple competing priorities with minimal direction from management.
• Must work well within a team in a fast-paced high performance organization.
• We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand the requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions.

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.