Senior Java Software 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

You will be part of a new team who will be working on a new and exciting greenfield project. With a wider engineering group of nearly 300 people, Visa Spend Clarity is a key focus area with large growth ambitions driven by customer needs and a desire to innovate using modern technologies.

What a Senior Java Software Engineer does at Visa

A Senior Java Software Engineer is a pivotal software development role, working within a cohesive cross-discipline scrum team on the product backlog. You will be working alongside developers of intermediate and senior ability, as well as other scrum team members and consultants.

This role requires a dedication to technical excellence, not only in writing code, but also in team-collaboration, testing, documentation. Good communication skills are essential, as well as a “can-do” attitude and willingness to work across various disciplines if required.

Software Development 

• Strong Experience in Java EE technologies
• Develop Open-Source frameworks including Spring Boot and related code.
• Technical system design in collaboration with other developers, architects, and UX designers.
• Peer reviews (Coding, Security, Data, Architecture).
• Following coding style standards and guidelines.
• Using Test Driven Development techniques.
• Writing unit and integration automation tests

Why this is important to Visa

This is a pivotal software development role, that requires a dedication to technical excellence, not only in writing code, but also in team-collaboration, testing, and documentation.

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

• Experience in Java EE technologies, Open-Source frameworks including Spring, React, JavaScript, HTML5, and Web Services (REST/RPC)
• Experience on microservices, containerization and ability to quickly build and drive team to support future systems
• Experience evaluating business requirements and translating them into technical designs documents
• Experience in Design Patterns, and data modelling
• Experience in Kafka and other No-SQL databases
• Solid understanding and experience working with Database systems like MySQL and MSSQL
• Good experience working on application servers like Apache Tomcat, OS platforms like UNIX, Windows and Linux
• Experience with build automation tools including Maven/Gradle/Jenkins/Grunt
• Exposure and good knowledge on web application security will be an added advantage
• Experience in version Control tools: Bitbucket, Git or similar
• Experience with agile methodologies, including Scrum and DevOps

What will also help:

• Proven experience in professional software development.
• Experience with enterprise scale multi-tenant Cloud/SaaS environments.
• Experience with transactional systems (e.g., banking, finance, telecommunications, etc.).
• Financial industry experience.
• Ideally tertiary qualified with appropriate certifications.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly.
• Leadership experience in encouraging others to use appropriate techniques and actions to move toward higher levels of performance.
• Proven experience of balancing commercial and technical considerations to achieve business outcomes.
• Working with enterprise distributed systems and SaaS applications.
• Software delivery in regulated compliance-based environments.
• Implementation of greenfield projects and evolution of legacy systems and processes. 

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.