Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant level

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 Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant, you will be part of our Risk Solutions team to help design, enhance and build our transactional Fraud detection engine in an agile development environment. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. You will take leadership roles working on multiple projects building full stack development of real-time transactional services, RESTful APIs and Container based distributed services that are highly available, secure, scalable, and resilient. You will spearhead development of next generation software based on machine learning and deep learning. We believe in self-managing Agile teams who build products end to end focusing on unit testing, code reviews and continuous integration for excellent code quality. You will see the code written and moved to production within just a few days, to then be used by a huge customer base including Meta, Nike, FedEx, Apple to name a few. You will be driving innovation that makes our products stand apart from our competitors and delight the customer with accelerated time-to-market delivery. This role demands proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, expertise in Java, Spring Boot, React, relational and non-relational databases.

If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit.

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.

Essential Functions:

• You’ll be the face of the team representing us in various technical forums. 
• You’ll help our customers achieve their business goals by understanding their requirements. You will build deep partnerships with product management to make sure that the products we are building deliver real value.
• You’ll analyze business requirements and architect highly secure, robust, and scalable solutions.
• You’ll drive internal proof of concept initiatives. When needed, quickly design and implement a prototype of a system or component with a proper architecture, and then lead or hand over to engineering team to implement.
• You’ll build relationships with key architects across technology organizations and collaborate on promoting architectural best practices across technology.
• You’ll introduce new technologies to build the next generation of Risk Services.
• You’ll champion efforts to architect, design and implement various components of our global transaction processing systems.
• Your DNA will include following and creating software best practices and processes.
• You’ll coach and mentor your team members and help them grow professionally. You will also create an atmosphere of mutual accountability.
• You’ll play key role in meetings and discussions with cross-functional and non-technical teams.
• You’ll be able to speak with confidence and clarity about what we do in industry conferences as the need arises.

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.

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
•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.

Preferred Qualifications:
•9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's 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
•You have proven experience leading teams that have delivered high-quality
large-scale enterprise class applications.
•You are a Java expert experienced with REST APIs and container-based
technologies. Strong on elegant coding, can write very solid prototypes or core
components quickly.
•Implement containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes.
•Experience in UI technologies, jQuery/JavaScript standards including Redux,
React.js, HTML5, CSS4.
•You have strong experience with Agile development incorporating TDD, CI/CD
utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, JUnit, Mock
frameworks.
•Experience working with both relational and non-relational databases.
•Experience building applications that use industry best practices for reliability,
availability, scalability, and operability.
•Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data
flow review. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure
coding techniques.
•While you’ll have the skill to see and understand the big picture, you’re able to
stay focused on the task at hand to achieve immediate goals.
•You have a strong work ethic to focus on our goals and lead by example.
•You have proven experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the
requirements and independently, architect, design and build the solution.
•You have the passion to work with people and help mentor your juniors to reach
new heights.
•Passion for Big Data and analytics in general leveraging technologies like
Hadoop, Spark is a plus.
•You have work and academic experience that will demonstrate proficiency and
ease with programming languages, code quality initiatives, scripting languages
and operating systems.
•You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and above all, you
are a team player!

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 132,900.00 to 192,750.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.