Lead SW Engineer - OpenSearch

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

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.

The Work itself: 

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability 
• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings 
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads 
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities 

Essential Functions:

• Design, build and manage data ingestion pipelines including OpenSearch, Kafka, and Druid using open-source packages.
• Design and Build Application in Dockers and Kubernetes
• Develop and Build Python based application for automation and task management.
• Ensure data integrity, quality, and security throughout the data lifecycle end-to-end in open-source platform.
• Build multiple data pipelines to ingest unstructured data in real time for advance data analytics.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and deliver solutions.

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

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:-

• 14+ 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 5 years of work experience with PhD

Preferred Qualifications:-

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or any related field with minimum 14 years of experience
• 3+ years of experience with visualization dashboard tools (Splunk, Elastic, Superset).
• 10+ years of experience in Python and Java programming.
• 10+ years of experience working in a Linux or Unix environment.
• 10+ years of experience in data analytics, including proficiency in SQL.
• 5+ years of experience in OpenSearch/Elastic engineering and development.
• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Applications.
• 2+ year of experience in Rust programming (highly preferred).
• Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams
• Excellent Communication and Collaboration skills.
• Experience with Cloud-based Data Engineering solutions is preferred.
• Experience with Big Data Technologies such as Hadoop, Kafka and Spark are preferred
• Knowledge in Generative AI or Generative AI tools is preferred.
• Strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

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.