Staff 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:
•    Take complete end-to-end technical & engineering ownership of one or more applications.
•    Be at the forefront of translating complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.
•    Have significant influence on our strategy by helping define and build the next wave of product features and system architecture.
•    Partner with Architecture and Business teams to provide best in class solutions.
•    Champion Agile to inspire change and continuous improvement throughout the delivery process.
•    Take a hands-on role in influencing and guiding day-to-day development activities by leading architecture decisions, participating in designs, design review, code review, and implementation.
•    Be the ambassador for engineering best practice across the development lifecycle and champion continuous improvement across the Centre
•    Define solutions in terms of components, modules, and algorithms.
•    Development and Implementation of the proposed solution.
•    Identify or develop software frameworks to be used.
•    Refactor existing solutions to make it reusable and scalable.
•    Leads and/or supports both product and technical discussions about how to apply existing and/or new technology in support of the business.
•    Create design documents, code, unit/functional test, document and implement new programs and subprograms, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software.
•    Must be able to understand the positioning of a solution within the company and to build consensus to effectively gain buy-in from all participants.
•    Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards, processes, and systems.
•    Provide rotational on-call support as required.

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:
• Strong design and coding skills with Java 8/17, J2EE, Spring, Spring WebFlux, JavaScript, Angular and NodeJS
• Solid proficiency experience in ORM frameworks Hibernate / JPA.
• Be passionate about technology and solving large-scale complex business problems.
• Be an established self-starter who possesses a relentless drive to initiate change, raise the technical bar and deliver results
• Understanding and working experience with Spring frameworks.
• Working experience with SOAP and RESTful services API development.
• Experience in Microservices development is a required.
• Knowledge and working experience with messaging technologies like MQ, Kafka.
• Knowledge and working experience on Git/Stash, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Github Actions and Jira.
• Experience with Cloud Services Integration (Deployment / S3), Hazelcast, Python and Spark/Kafka Streams is a plus.
• Experience with database technologies like MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB.
• Solid Computer Science fundamentals and good grasp of Data Structures, Algorithms, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Junit, TestNg and Cucumber testing frameworks.
• Knowledge on parallel processing & Performance engineering.
• Nice to have mobile SDK experience.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins.
• Experience building payment processing or funds transfer systems is a plus.
• Must be capable of translating architecture into a delivered solution that realizes the vision and purpose and effectively translate functional and non-functional requirements into an engineered solution.
• Should be able to lead the technical team in comfortably extending an existing solution or conceiving a new solution and working with delivery to have the target state architecture realized.
• Provides direction for selecting appropriate engineering techniques to solve for non-functional requirements at the project level.
• Strong problem determination skills and ability to resolve critical issues for complex systems under tight timeframes using dumps and other tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to multitask and handle multiple competing priorities with minimal direction from management. Should possess excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Must be able to write technical design and build documentation for all aspects of a technical infrastructure.
• Good interpersonal and facilitation skills.

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.