Senior Software Engineer - Java Backend

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

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for design and implementation of the platform for consumer facing mobile and digital products. Must be able to coordinate and manage input from business and technology stakeholders across the enterprise and be responsible for the design and execution of large-scale technology initiatives. 

You will drive development of multiple applications, prototype new applications and feature ideas and explore new technologies that are at the forefront of backend development.

We are looking for someone with serious development skills, strong interests in all things related to backend, and a passion for delivering high quality, rock-solid code. ​

You will play part of teams tasked with multiple projects ranging from building full stack development of real-time transactional services, REST services API, Container based services to highly functional, secure, scalable and resilient Platform Libraries / Services / Framework and Infrastructure. You will be providing the best platform for PPT Platform engineers for them to succeed. If this sounds exciting, we would love to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Design the appropriate solution that is based on the business requirements.

• Perform proofs of concept (PoCs) and other technical evaluations of technologies, designs, and solutions.

• Work with engineering professionals, architects and others within Visa to ensure that the solution will scale appropriately while ensuring that what is implemented is a cost-effective solution.

• Continue to learn about the payments industry, and the factors impacting the payments industry

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

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience of programming in Java, J2EE
• Experience with web services standards and related technologies (HTTP, Spring, XML, JSON, REST)
• Experience in commercial software development on Unix/Linux environment.
• You have experience in consumer facing application development experience.
• You have amazing work ethics that will help us all work extremely well together
• Knowledge of MVC design pattern
• Experience on Big Data Cluster [ Solr, Kafka etc]
• Solid understanding of database technologies and SQL.
• Knowledge of NoSQL Databases is a plus.
• Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures and algorithms.
• Proven problem solving skills and an ability to respond resourcefully to new demands, priorities and challenge
• Solid coding practices including good design documentation, unit testing, source control (GIT, SVN etc)
• Experience with build tools (Maven, Gradle etc).
• Ability and desire to learn new skills and take on new initiatives.    

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.