Staff SW Engineer (8+ yrs, Springboot, Java)

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

About Visa

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.

The Opportunity: 

We at Visa, dream of a future where it's easy to pay and be paid. Across the planet. Where ever. Whenever. Securely. Easily. We have a great toolbox of leadership technologies including Cybersource and Authorize.net. Together, we are building leading edge full-service Payment Management solutions combining global payment processing, fraud management and payment security systems. We are looking for a talented Staff Test Engineer to join our team!

The Work itself: 

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be part of our Payment processing Settlement &OLP Payments Solutions team to help design, enhance and build our transactional engine in an agile development environment. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. You will be take leadership roles working on multiple projects building full stack development of real-time transactional services, REST services API and Container based services that are highly functional, distributed, secure, scalable and resilient. We believe in self-managing Agile teams who build products end to end focusing on unit testing, code reviews and continuous integration for excellent code quality. You will see the code written and moved to production within just a few days, to then be used by a huge customer base including Facebook, Nike, FedEx, Apple to name a few. You will be driving innovation that makes our products stand apart from our competitors, delight the customer with faster times for market delivery.

If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit.

Responsibilities: 

•  You’ll help our customers achieve their real goals by understanding their requirements and how they respond to their business needs.
• You will build partnerships with product management to make sure that the products we are building deliver real value.
• You’ll use technologies that include Java, REST, NoSQL, Docker and more.
• You will analyze business requirements and architect a solution that is robust and scalable along with providing technical documentation of solution.
• You have the work and academic experience that will demonstrate proficiency and ease with programming languages, code quality initiatives, scripting languages and operating systems.
• You’ll leverage new technologies to build the next generation of Risk Services.-You’ll lead efforts to architect, design and implement various components of our global transaction processing systems.
• Your DNA would include following and creating software best practices and processes.
• You coach and mentor your team members and help them grow professionally.
• You’ll lead meeting and discussions with cross-functional and non-technical teams.
• You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and above all, you are a team player!

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
You have a Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of Software Development Experience or a Masters with 7+ years of Software Development Experience.
You have proven experience leading teams that have delivered high quality large scale enterprise class applications.
You are a Java expert and you have experience with REST APIs, JSON and exposure to container based technologies.
You have strong experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar,
JUnit
Ensure proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.
Solid experience in frameworks like Spring or Spring Boot and vertex
Working experience with Kafka, Redis, or NoSQL datastores is a plus.
Hands on experience with database technologies like MySQL, DB2, Oracle.
Knowledge of Unix/Linux and working in a shell environment.
Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques.
We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand customer requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions and improvements.
While you’ll have the skill to see and understand the big picture, you’re able to stay focused on the task at hand to achieve immediate goals.
You have a strong work ethic tofocus on our goals.
Experience with Agile and Test-Driven Development methodology.
You have proven experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirements and independently, architect, design and build the solution.
You have the passion to work with people and help mentor your juniors to reach new heights.
As an end-end champion for your products, you will have strong debugging and Unix skills to help support our Operations teams.
A background in the payments domain 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.