Staff SW Engineer- Java Backend- 5- 8 yrs

As the world’s leader in digital payments technology, Visa’s mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment platform - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive.

Cross-border remittances and new business models (e.g., gig economy) require the ability to deploy rapid, frequent payouts. We are building a Technology Platform that will enable fast and ubiquitous push payments across a range of domestic and cross border use cases aiming to capture significant revenue opportunity across P2P, B2SB, and B2C flows and value-added services. Built on the latest standards/tech stack and providing open APIs, this platform will help drive innovation in the entire ecosystem.

We value creative and driven individuals who love to own their products, and design and implement solutions that create a seamless experience for consumers and clients.  Our developers work across the stack, and are experts in service oriented architectures and technologies such as Java 17, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, MongoDB, React JS, Cassandra, Hazelcast, Kafka, Kubernetes and Docker

As we embark on the journey to build this platform, we are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who can participate in the detailed design and development activities for this product build.

The role involves extensive hands-on activities. Here are key job responsibilities

• Understand the Payments industry and where Visa Direct fits in the payment’s ecosystem
• Understand the business initiatives and their importance to the growth of Visa Direct.
• Develop a good understanding of the Visa Direct technology platform.
• Collaborate with product owners and technical staff globally to define requirements for new features and enhancements to the platform.
• Evaluate technical options and provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required to develop an end-to-end solution.
• Manage and mentor a team of talented engineers.
• Take ownership and lead the engineering responsibility for multiple components of the platform.
• Actively participate in defining architecture and creating solution documents, consistently, be hands-on with low level design, code review, coding and unit testing activities.
• Coordinate engineering activities across the delivery of the project and work with engineers to ensure they are delivering efficiently and to high quality standards.
• Ability to identify and manage risks at all stages of the project.
• Build a culture of engineering excellence within the team, drive adoption of practices like continuous integration, security, code reviews, code coverage, code quality and shift left practices.
• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards, processes and systems.

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

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
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
Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field and 7+ years of Software Development Experience or a Masters with 6+ years of Software Development experience
Proven track record of leading and delivering complex projects where complexity is a function of a combination of these factors – domain knowledge, distributed architecture, technical stack, influencing and collaborating with multiple technology partners and business partners
Experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirements and independently, architect, design and build enterprise applications
Proficiency in Java 17+ (Core Java, memory management, concurrency, functional programming) and experience with REST APIs, JSON and exposure to container based technologies. Tech stacks include Java 17, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, MongoDB, React JS, Cassandra, Hazelcast, Kafka, Kubernetes and Docker
Experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Sonar, JUnit, Mockito
Experience with automation frameworks like Cucumber, Karate and performance testing
Experience with shift left practices and performance testing applications.
Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques
Passion to work with people and help mentor your team

Good to have
Hands-on experience leveraging AI tools in the development workflow, including proficiency with the GitHub Copilot/Cline and integrating solutions using current LLMs (e.g., GPT-4o, Claude 3, Llama 3)

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.