Staff SW Engineer (Java, Spring boot, Kafka, 7+ years)

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.

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 
• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions. 
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology 
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities 

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
• Work with Product owners, architects and other relevant stakeholders to gather and refine requirements for one or more products, taking in to account the existing tools and solutions across departments.
• Translates functional requirements into system designs for one or more components and communicates how the components will interact.
• Demonstrates understanding of non-functional requirements (NFR) and their impact on the system. Leads junior engineers in understanding requirements.
• Design, Code, test, document and implement new applications & as well as existing programs.
• Develop code that complies with design specifications and meets security and coding best practices.
• Work independently and provide guidance to junior developers.
• Work with team members on technical software development issues, problem analysis and resolution.
• Participate in design and code review sessions as appropriate - to ensure the quality of work delivered by teammates is in accordance with development standards.
• Write automation scripts to functionally automate the testing.
• Learn and adopt technologies, like generative AI, that provide developer productivity improvements.
• Engages with product engineering teams and product owners during code/design reviews, regular meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles.
• Leverages advanced knowledge of systems/platforms and telemetry analyses to propose isolated improvements in code, processes, and designs to deliver on customer/business objectives more effectively.

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
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 7 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or with an advanced degree.
• 5 + years of strong hands-on experience in backend application development using Java 17 or higher, Spring Boot, Microservices frameworks and RESTful Web Services
• Should have good knowledge of basic infrastructure components like app servers (Tomcat), web servers (Apache).
• Multi Data Center infrastructure (for high availability) knowledge is a plus.
• Experience of working in a real-time application is highly preferred.
• Must have working knowledge of relational databases. Should be able to construct an effective data model for a given scenario and SQL.
• Proficiency developing unit and automation scripts using Karate, JUnit etc.
• Knowledge of streaming pipelines / Message Queuing systems like Kafka is a must.
• Must have knowledge of build tools like Maven and NPM, version control systems like Git, Bitbucket, workflow tools like JIRA.
• Ability to breakdown given requirements into design and process flow.
• Should have hands on coding experience to be able to develop the actual product as well as for quick POCs.
• Should have good communication skills (Written and Verbal) and must be able to guide the team in case of any challenges faced by the junior developers.
• Good working knowledge of Agile methodologies in the context of SDLC.
• Proactive & Collaborative mindset towards problem solving, automation and innovation in solution delivery.
• Working knowledge of Generative AI is a plus especially in the context of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

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.