Lead Software Engineer - Director level (IC)

As a Technology Leader in the Risk and Identity Solutions division at Visa, you will be part of our Enterprise Risk Solutions team to help design, enhance and build our transactional Fraud detection engine in an agile development environment. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. You will take leadership roles working on multiple projects building full stack development of real-time transactional services, RESTful APIs and Container based distributed services that are highly available, secure, scalable, and resilient. You will spearhead development of next generation software based on machine learning and deep learning. 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. You will be driving innovation that makes our products stand apart from our competitors and delight the customer with accelerated time-to-market delivery.

You are a trusted technology advisor and thought leader working with architects, DEV leads, test engineering leads, TPMs, product managers, security architects, and other partners across the organization in ensuring that what we build is secure, scalable, performant, and reliable.  Every technology and software that you have touched in the past, you have become an SME at with a deep level of understanding how it worked and are able to incorporate this in the most optimize form.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Design infrastructure that is reliable, performant, and fault tolerant
• Lead Programmer and Expert in developing highly available, reliable, and scalable solutions
• Ensure security, reliability, performance and cost effectiveness of the Risk platform
• Collaborate with the product management, other VISA IT groups and vendors to develop solutions for complex, global business requirements
• Establish architectural and technical standards and processes, ensure adherence to them through governance
• Evaluate and identify appropriate technology solutions to meet business and technology challenges, guide product development teams through their implementation
• Keep abreast of evolving technologies and anticipate technological evolutions that could be leveraged to enhance current architectures
• Design solutions involving moving existing applications and services to the cloud (public and hybrid).
• Champion technology innovation
• Create Projects, Features, and Stories for Technology driven projects and initiatives
• Evaluate and develop PoCs for new technologies and hands-on programmer.
• Lead and build scalable and distributed services that will help power the AI infrastructure for deep learning platforms.
• Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data driven business solutions.
• Be a technical leader on various projects across the platform and be a major contributor and beings hands-on for the entire platform’s architecture.
• Troubleshoot Production Issues as needed by working closely with Product and Support Teams

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Basic Qualifications:
10+ 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 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
Degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems
Experience in architecture and design of distributed, highly scalable, highly available systems
Experience in Java software development, web applications and services, Spring, technology standards and frameworks
You are a Java expert experienced with REST APIs and container-based technologies. Strong on elegant designing, can write very solid prototypes or core components quickly.
Knowledge / Experience in UI technologies, jQuery/JavaScript standards including ES6, HTML5, CSS3 and CSS4, Redux, Riot.js and React.js, D3 is a plus
Experience in migrating applications to the cloud (AWS, or GCP, or MS Azure) is a plus.
Good experience in Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, Flink, distributed cache.
Hands on experience on containers and orchestration platform such as docker, Kubernetes
Knowledge on cloud infrastructure and cost-effective platform such as AWS, AZURE.
Experience in microservices architecture and database shading of a large-scale project.
Experience developing large scale, enterprise class distributed system or subsystems that require high availability, low latency, & strong data consistency computing
Experience implementing solutions for low-latency, distributed services using open standard technologies.
Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear & concise way, a team player with a strong work ethic
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 juniors.
Passion for Big Data and analytics in general leveraging technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Solr, MapReduce.
You have work and academic experience that will demonstrate proficiency and ease with programming languages, code quality initiatives, scripting languages and operating systems.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 192,300.00 to 278,800.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.