Staff SW Engineer (8+ yrs, Java, SpringBoot, Kubernetes)

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Risk and Identity Solutions team within VAS (Value added Services) organization is looking for curious, creative, and talented technologists to join our team.

This position is ideal for a software engineer who is passionate about solving challenging business problems and building applications that provide an excellent user experience.

You will be one of the member of the Risk and Identity development team focusing on design and build of software solutions that leverage data to solve business problems.

Sometimes you will be designing brand-new software solutions, and at other times you may be refactoring existing functionality for performance and maintainability, but always working on ways to make us more efficient and provide better solutions to our customers.

The role is for a self-motivated individual with software engineering skills and knowledge of Database, J2EE and Web technologies.

The candidate will be extensively involved in leading hands-on software engineering activities including POCs, design, documentation, development and test of new functionality. 

Candidate must be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on team’s needs. You will also help and guide junior team members.

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

- 8+ years of application development using Java 8 or higher, Spring, Spring Boot or similar REST based frameworks.
- Ability to breakdown given requirements into design, architecture and process flow.
- Should have hands on coding experience to be able to develop the actual product as well as for quick POCs.
- Should have knowledge of basic infrastructure components like app servers (Tomcat), web servers (Apache, Nginx)
- Experience in developing scalable platforms using Kubernetes is a must.
- Must have working knowledge of relational databases. Should be able to construct an effective data model for a given scenario.
- Should have good communication skills and must be able to guide the team in case of any challenges faced by the junior developers.
- Must have knowledge of build tools like Maven and NPM, version control systems like Git, Bitbucket, workflow tools like JIRA.
- Experience of working in a real-time application is highly preferred.
- Knowledge about UI frameworks like Angular and React is a plus.
- Knowledge of streaming pipelines like Kafka is a plus.

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.