Lead SW Engineer

Company Description

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.

Job Description

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 seeking passionate, inquisitive and dedicated Lead Software Engineers who thrive on solving complex global-scale challenges. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be a crucial member of a cross-functional team. Your primary role will be to design and develop micro services with a focus on availability, scalability, and reliability, while solving unique problems related to near real-time processing of high transaction volumes. You will be tasked with inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that cater to a truly global audience. Your contributions will shape the digital future of monetary transactions as you work on the cutting edge of payment technology.

The Work itself: 

• Design and develop code and systems that impact 40% of the world population, while setting Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to generate design artefacts and develop top-tier software solutions for various Visa technical offerings. 
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, value added service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads 
• Develop robust and scalable micro services for a wide range of customers, including end-user merchants, B2B, and government solutions.
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology 
• Opportunities to impact on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities.

 Essential Functions: 

• Leads the development of enhancements and modifications to existing software as well as the development of code that complies with design specifications and meets security best practices.
• Identify automation opportunities to enhance system and tool efficiency and support the development and implementation of new automation, analysing where investment will yield the greatest efficiencies.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams and product owners across organisation, driving code/design reviews, and responding to incidents throughout product development and operations cycles.
• Leverage deep technical knowledge of underlying systems/platforms and telemetry analyses to propose scalable improvements in code, processes, and designs, prioritising customer/business objectives.

The Skills You Bring: 

Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale. 

Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing boundaries and innovating beyond traditional solutions.

Language Expertise: Expertise in Java and/or Golang

System Architecture: Proven experience in system architecture design, with a focus on creating solutions that ensure high availability, reliability, resiliency, and security.

Builder: Experience in building and deploying modern micro services with an emphasis on quality, scalability, and architectural design.

Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies.

Problem Solver: Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on software architecture design and architectural patterns. 

Continuous Integration and Development: Experience with continuous integration and continuous development, and DevOps methodologies. 

Partnership: Experience in collaborating with Product, Operations, Infrastructure, and Agile/Scrum teams.

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfil all of these characteristics. For instance, we have awesome team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa. 

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

* 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.
 

Preferred Qualifications:

* 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)
* Demonstrated expertise in system architecture and design, with a focus on creating solutions that ensure high availability, reliability, resiliency, and security.
* Experience in proof of concept coding and transforming ideas into tangible solutions.
* Hands on knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
* Skilled lead developer with a history of conducting code reviews, promoting software best practices, and mentoring junior team members.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
* Proficiency in designing and building micro services, with an emphasis on scalability, availability, and reliability with Java and/or Golang.
* Proficient in designing and maintaining high-performing applications using SQL, NoSQL and graph databases to support high throughput, low latency applications.
* Experience with DevOps methodologies, continuous integration, and continuous development.
 

Additional Information

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.