Sr. Staff SW Engineer (15+ yrs, Microservices, Springboot)

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 Staff Software Engineer, you will be part of Acceptance Solutions Payments Team to help design, enhance and build our NextGen Payments stack in an agile development environment. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. You will be part of teams tasked with multiple projects building full stack development of real-time infrastructure services, REST services API and Container based services that are highly functional, distributed, secure, scalable and resilient. 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 Facebook, Nike, FedEx, Apple to name a few.

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.

Responsibilities:

We expect our Senior Staff Engineers to do much more than just writing code

• Help our client to achieve their real goals by understanding the requirements and how it would help them in their business.
• Use technologies including Java, RESTful Web Services, NoSQL, edis/Hazelcast, Redis and more
• Leverage newer technologies and develop solutions to build next generation of Payment services.
• Lead efforts to architect, design and implement various aspects of our global transaction processing systems.
• Lead and provide technical mentoring to a team of talented engineers.
• Comfortable in leading meeting and discussions with non-technical teams.
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal skills and team player.

Technical Expertise Requirements:

• Domain experience in Payment technologies
• Very thorough understanding of Container based architecture for Cloud such as Kubernetes
• Should have experience in building and establishing elastic scalability architectural patterns for web applications, including omni-channel applications
• Sound experience and understanding of Micro services oriented architecture
• Strong understanding and working experience in Distributed Web Architecture – should have experience with Service registry, container architecture, distributed caching, streaming apps, NoSQL and RDBMS, reactive programming frameworks etc.
• Sound understanding of Service and IT operations management, and DevOps model, good knowledge of Deployment, Capacity Planning
• Strong understanding of Enterprise Integration using web services, REST
• Understand the Security requirements and standards, and contemporary trends in Security risks as well as technologies
• Experience with machine learning frameworks and libraries
• Deep understanding of Generative AI models, including transformers, variational autoencoders, and generative adversarial networks.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Should have experience in leading the end-to-end delivery of at least major cloud platform feature

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) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• Bachelors/Masters degree or equivalent with at least 14+ years of product development experience
• Experience in commercial software development on Unix/Linux environment.
• 5+ years in a technical leadership role
• Hands-on understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable web services.
• Experience with agile development process
• Desired experience in instrumenting web applications for performance benchmarking
• Experience with Generative AI technologies, including but not limited to NLP, and GANs
Please include your relevant GPA when submitting your resume

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.