Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack (Java, Angular, Linux, MySQL, Spring Boot)

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

This position is ideal for an engineer who is passionate about solving challenging business problems and building applications that provide an excellent user experience. You will be an integral part of the Payment Products Development team focusing on design and development of software solutions that leverage data to solve business problems. The candidate will be extensively involved in hands-on activities including POCs, design, documentation, development, and testing of new functionality. Candidate must be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on team's needs. 

• Responsible for the design, development, and implementation.

• Work on development of new products iteratively by building quick POCs and converting ideas into real products.

• Design and develop mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.

• Interact with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high quality products and services that meet business requirements and expectations while applying the latest available tools and technology.

• Develop code to ensure deliverables are on time and with good code quality.

• Coordinate Continuous Integration activities, testing automation frameworks, and other related items in addition to contributing core product code.

• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.

• Perform other tasks on R&D, data governance, system infrastructure, and other cross team functions, on an as-needed basis

Preferred Qualifications


• 9 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

• Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters) in Computer Science/ Engineering, Information Science or a related discipline

• Minimum of 3 years of software development experience (with a concentration in data centric initiatives), with demonstrated expertise in leveraging standard development best practice methodologies

• Strong design and coding skills with Java/J2EE and Web technologies like Spring Boot, Javascript, JSON, and JQuery

• Strong working experience with Spring, Angular, and Hibernate frameworks

• Strong working experience with REST web services

• Knowledge and working experience on Git/Stash, Jenkins, and Jira

• Experience with database technologies like MySQL, Redis and SQL

• Deep knowledge of Unix/Linux

• Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design optimized for building highly distributed and parallelized systems

• Experience with Agile & DevOps methodologies

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a strong automation mindset

• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Good written and verbal communication skills. Ability to effectively communicate the logic and implementation plan to team members & managers

• Quick learner: self-starter, detailed and thorough

• Payment processing background is a big plus

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:
5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.




Preferred Qualifications:
6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD

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.