Sr. 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

CMS Visa Direct Connect is a strategic initiative dedicated to transforming how Visa designs, builds and deploys software products and exposes APIs to external developer community. We are a multi-disciplinary team engaged on multiple fronts.

We are building frameworks and tools that enable Visa’s software developers to build new products in a modular, services approach, expose those services to other developers. Additionally, we build tools that enable service discovery and make it easier to connect to other services.

We are building an enterprise scale API management platform with an ambitious objective to consolidate multiple partner and developer facing assets across Visa into a common platform in order to simplify partner connectivity, decrease integration costs, and accelerate the pace of collaboration and innovation across Visa’s payments ecosystem.

We are developing infrastructure and frameworks dedicated to engineering efficiency – simplifying and automating everything from CI/CD to developer analytics and productivity tools. We are leveraging state of the art, third party and open system tools to develop a highly efficient. Additionally, we are engaged in innovation where we build applications of next generation payment experiences using technologies such as Spring, Reactive Spring frameworks, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka Streams and many other technologies. If you are a passionate, looking for a well-rounded experience in building complex, large scale platform components or rapidly prototype experimental scenarios or dream of creating an ideal developer productivity suite leveraging creativity and automation, you should come work for Visa. As part of the Visa Platform team, you will get to work on any or all of the above.

Responsibilities:
•    Design, develop, test automation and maintain software applications.
•    Implement robust and scalable software solutions consistent with the company's business objectives.
•    Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and understand the functional requirements.
•    Write clean, readable, and testable code that is scalable and well-documented.
•    Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share best practices and experiences with the team.
•    Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing software.
•    Implement strong security and data protection solutions.
•    Work with data structures, algorithms, and system design as part of the problem-solving process.
•    Must be comfortable with being hands-on in software development and technical issues.

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
• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Solid Computer Science fundamentals and good grasp of Data Structures, Algorithms, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems.
• Solid understanding and experience in Java & Spring Framework (Core Java 8/17, Spring framework, Reactive Spring Webflux and batch applications development using spring batch components)
• Experience in design and development of distributed applications using message framework like Kafka.
• Solid hands-on experience in RESTful Services API development.
• Solid proficiency experience in ORM frameworks Hibernate / JPA.
• Experience with Junit, TestNg and Cucumber testing frameworks.
• Working knowledge of web services standards and related technologies
• Familiarity with build tools such as Maven or Gradle and NPM.
• Expertise in Micro-service architecture design and development.
• Experience with databases (SQL or NoSQL) and ORM frameworks.
• Experience with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
• Experience in Design Patterns usage in real time application development.
• Must be self-motivated with a drive for excellence.
• Understanding and experience in frontend development using technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and modern UI libraries or frameworks like React.js, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Experience in Accessibility & UI performance test strategies.
• Understanding of Kubernetes, service mesh framework like istio.
• Understanding of Ngnix framework.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins.
• Experience with scripting languages like Python, Shell, etc.
• Experience with automation tools and frameworks.
• Familiarity with UI/UX design principles.
• Nice to have mobile SDK experience.

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.