Sr. Staff SW Engineer (Java, Springboot, HLD, LLD)

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 Risk and Identity Services (RaIS) team is is leading in innovation to create secure authentication and authorization experience for our customers and partners. As a Sr. Staff of Software Engineering in RaIS, you will enhance and build end to end solutions for our customers in an agile development environment. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. You will be part of teams tasked with multiple projects building full stack development of real-time infrastructure 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 Visa’s customer base.

Key Responsibilities

We expect our Senior Staff Engineers to do much more than just writing code,

• Help our client to achieve their real goals by understanding the requirements and how it would
  help them in their business.
• Use technologies including Java, Spring, Reactive, REST, NoSQL and more.
• Excellent problem solving skills & thorough understanding of Data Structures & Algorithms.
• Leverage newer technologies and develop solutions to build next generation of Payment solutions.
• Lead efforts to architect, design and implement various aspects of our global transaction processing systems.
• Lead and provide technical mentoring to a team of talented engineers.
• Comfortable in leading meeting and discussions with non-technical teams.
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal skills and team player.

• Very thorough understanding of Container based architecture for Cloud such as Docker
• Should have experience in building and establishing elastic scalability architectural patterns for web applications, including omni-channel applications
• Sound experience and understanding of Micro services oriented architecture
• Strong understanding and working experience in Distributed Web Architecture – should have experience with Service registry, container architecture, distributed caching, streaming apps, NoSQL and RDBMS, reactive programming frameworks etc.
• Sound understanding of Service and IT operations management, and DevOps model, good knowledge of Deployment, Capacity Planning
• Strong understanding of Enterprise Integration using web services, REST
• Understand the Security requirements and standards, and contemporary trends in Security risks as well as technologies

Nice to Have:

• Domain experience in Payment technologies

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

Basic Qualifications
*15+ 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 15+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
* Bachelors/Masters degree or equivalent with at least 15+ years of product development experience
* Experience in commercial software development on Unix/Linux environment.
* 6+ years in a technical leadership role
* Hands-on understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable web services.
* Experience with agile development process
* Desired experience in instrumenting web applications for performance benchmarking.

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.